Free Trip Planner for Colorado National Parks

Free Colorado Parks Trip Planner

Plan the Colorado vacation of a lifetime.

Explore Colorado National Parks

We love Colorado and exploring its national park sites with diverse and unexpected landscapes. Rocky Mountain National Park spans the Continental Divide with alpine lakes, the headwaters of the Colorado River and dozens of mountain peaks. Mesa Verde National Park showcases human history at ancient cliff dwellings from 1,400 years ago. Sled or hike a spectacular array of dunes trapped by mountains at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, and watch birds take a deep dive between the vertical canyon walls of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. We invite you to travel the depths of Colorado and discover your own place of adventure.

Longs Peak, the highest peak in Rocky Mountain National Park

Drive up Trail Ridge Road and you'll spot Longs Peak in the distance. Down in Rocky's meadows, watch the park's most crowd-drawing wildlife, herds of elk.

Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park.

Described as the pyramids of North America, the ancient ruins at Mesa Verde hold the early stories of our nation from 1,400 years ago.

Sunset of Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. Photo by Grant Ordelheide

Is this south central Colorado or the Sahara? It’s not always easy to tell at this unique park where the continent’s tallest sand dunes join the rugged Sangre de Cristo mountains.

The Painted Wall in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park

At this impossibly sheer, narrow canyon in southwestern Colorado, 40 feet at it's narrowest, rock walls plunge a half mile down.

Independence Monument and the Book Cliffs in Colorado National Monument, with the town of Fruita in the background

Cruise Rim Rock Drive for a striking upper level view of canyons filled with pillars. Along the road, stop at 19 overlooks and 14 trailheads.

The sun sets over Echo Park's Steamboat Rock in Dinosaur National Monument.

Two visitor centers, one in Colorado and one in Utah have interactive displays. One leads to the wall of bones. Raft the Yampa River past the iconic Steamboat Rock.