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08/31/2008

Golden, Colo., mountaineering museum a peak experience
Experience high-altitude adventure from ground level at the new Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum, the only U.S. museum dedicated to mountains and mountaineering.

08/29/2008

Shuttle service extended at Grand Canyon
A shuttle service that has been operating between the Grand Canyon's South Rim and neighboring Tusayan will be extended through Sept. 28.

07/31/2008

Tackle the Rockies and your nerves on scenic Alpine Loop

DAN LEETH/Special Contributor

A car winds down from Engineer Pass along the Alpine Loop Scenic Byway in southwestern Colorado.

The cliff-clutching, one-way Alpine Loop Scenic Byway in southwestern Colorado crosses two high passes and connects Lake City with Silverton and Ouray. Travelers, including those new to four-wheeling, find the 65-mile route stimulating but seldom threatening. Many people like to take their time and overnight in one of the loop's corner towns.

07/13/2008

Loving Las Vegas pools when it sizzles
I spent many a summer as a boy visiting my aunt in Las Vegas, so it's not just crazy gamblers (OK, mostly crazy gamblers) who venture to Sin City during its blazing-hottest midsummer madness. Just make sure you have a good dip on the Strip (or beyond).

Museum tells story of Nevada as nuclear test site
LAS VEGAS – The movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has rekindled interest in the Cold War atomic tests. Those experiments sent 100 mushroom clouds into the skies near Las Vegas from 1951 to 1962, and then shook it with underground tests until 1992, when testing was halted. In all, 928 blasts were triggered over, at and above the Nevada Test Site. Located just 65 miles north of the Strip, it's probably the most nuclear-bombed site in the world.

03/13/2008

Las Vegas dining: From expensive to cheap, here's where to eat