Colorado is a state of majestic landscapes dominated by expansive plains, lofty mountain peaks, dramatic canyons, and broad valleys. Scenic Driving Colorado, formerly Colorado Scenic Drives, offers thirty routes, each visually stunning, from Pawnee National Grassland of the Great Plains to Rocky Mountain National Park, the San Juan Mountains, and the deserts of the Colorado Plateau. Written by Colorado outdoor photographer and writer Stewart Green, Scenic Driving Colorado provides comprehensive route descriptions, including travel information on camping, services, best seasons, special attractions, and historical points of interest. Detailed maps and evocative black-and-white photos complement each description, making this book perfect for planning day trips or weekend outings. Also included are eight pages of spectacular photos taken along selected routes.
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This guide to the majestic landscapes, lofty mountain peaks, broad valleys, and dramatic canyons of Colorado offers 30 routes, each visually stunning, from Pawnee National Grassland of the Great Plains to Rocky Mountain National Park, the San Juan Mountains, and the deserts of the Colorado plateaus. Written by Colorado outdoor photographer and writer Stewart Green, this book provides comprehensive route descriptions, including travel information on camping, services, best seasons, special attractions, and historical points of interest. Detailed maps and evocative black-and-white photos complement each description, making this book perfect for planning day trips or weekend outings. Also included are eight pages of spectacular photos taken along selected routes.
About the Author
Freelance outdoor photographer and writer Stewart M. Green is the author of many FalconGuides, including five Scenic Driving titles and four climbing guides. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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I've been a freelance photographer and writer since 1977, based in Colorado Springs and traveling all over the great American West as well as the rest of the United States and the world in search of memorable images and experiences to write about and to lead people toward. Since the mid-1980s I've worked as a contract photographer and writer for FalconGuides/Globe Pequot Press, writing 20 books and photographing a few more.
My books include Rock Climbing Colorado, Rock Climbing Europe, Rock Climbing Utah, Rock Climbing Arizona, Rock Climbing New England, Scenic Driving Colorado, Scenic Driving California, Scenic Driving Arizona, Scenic Driving New England, KNACK Rock Climbing, Best Climbs Moab, Best Climbs Denver and Boulder, Rocky Mountain National Park Pocket Guide, and Back Country Byways.
My work has also been published in lots of other national and international publications. I'm also the Guide to Climbing at About.com, a New York Times Company.
Along the way I fathered a couple of amazing kids--Ian and Brett, climbed and adventured in a lot of places that I never could have imagined, and had a lot of fun. I've had my hands and my heart full. I'm grateful for that.
I write and photograph because of what is in front of me, to honor everything beyond in the world which is great, interesting, mysterious, and always changing. To be a writer and photographer is to see newly every day, as if for the first time, the essence that illuminates and lives within the earth. Every subject redefines me and allows me to discover harmony, reconcile disparities and inequities, and to find shape, symmetry, and truth in the chaos of life.
As a writer and photographer I seek to record my life and times, my vision of the world and its natural beauty, its other creatures, and my fellow human beings, and to find affirmation in life through belonging, wholeness, and living. I always think of the reader and the viewer over my shoulder, the person who sees my vision and reinterprets it in his own experience.
My books include Rock Climbing Colorado, Rock Climbing Europe, Rock Climbing Utah, Rock Climbing Arizona, Rock Climbing New England, Scenic Driving Colorado, Scenic Driving California, Scenic Driving Arizona, Scenic Driving New England, KNACK Rock Climbing, Best Climbs Moab, Best Climbs Denver and Boulder, Rocky Mountain National Park Pocket Guide, and Back Country Byways.
My work has also been published in lots of other national and international publications. I'm also the Guide to Climbing at About.com, a New York Times Company.
Along the way I fathered a couple of amazing kids--Ian and Brett, climbed and adventured in a lot of places that I never could have imagined, and had a lot of fun. I've had my hands and my heart full. I'm grateful for that.
I write and photograph because of what is in front of me, to honor everything beyond in the world which is great, interesting, mysterious, and always changing. To be a writer and photographer is to see newly every day, as if for the first time, the essence that illuminates and lives within the earth. Every subject redefines me and allows me to discover harmony, reconcile disparities and inequities, and to find shape, symmetry, and truth in the chaos of life.
As a writer and photographer I seek to record my life and times, my vision of the world and its natural beauty, its other creatures, and my fellow human beings, and to find affirmation in life through belonging, wholeness, and living. I always think of the reader and the viewer over my shoulder, the person who sees my vision and reinterprets it in his own experience.
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10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Wide Range of Areas, but Somewhat Brief Overviews,
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This review is from: Rock Climbing Colorado (Paperback)
Where Green's guide excels is in the wide range of rock climbing areas included in the guide. He includes many locations that even Colorado locals, like myself, did not know about. This feature will prove useful for anyone road-tripping in CO. or anyone wanting to discover new rock in the state. This book has a major drawback though, it fails to give extensive topo for any one area. The book will only cover about half of an area's climbs in order to save the book from being any thicker than it already is. To the climber looking for thorough beta on a local crag, this book won't cut it, and one will find a specialized guidebook much more beneficial.
8 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is a must have book for your travel in Colorado,
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This review is from: Scenic Driving Colorado (Paperback)
I have spent my last two summer vacations traveling through Colorado with my family. This book has been our guide for our travels on back roads. The information has been correct and well laid out. If you enjoy travel on two lane roads versus freeways, where you can see the country around you, this book is for you. I have used the authors book for New Mexico as well. enjoy your trip!
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good general guide for the state,
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This review is from: Rock Climbing Colorado (Paperback)
This book (like most Falcon guidebooks that I have used) is a very good general guidebook for the state of issue. It offers the reader a good glimpse of most of the climbing areas in the state, but most climbers will probably want to purchase separate books for distinct areas. It covers most of the classic routes, and is a great starter guide for anyone who is traveling around the state looking for rocks. I have a large library of guidebooks, but I use this book frequently.Dancing on the Edge of an Endangered Planet
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