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Scenic drives to consider in Colorado are listed below. Click on any scenic byway or backway listed below for complete information.

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More Info Official Website Dinosaur Diamond Scenic Byway

Dinosaur Diamond is named for the rough diamond shape of this remarkable area, stretching from Eastern Utah into Western Colorado. The Byway offers opportunities for the public to visit archeological and fossil sites in their natural settings.

More Info Alpine Loop National Back Country Byway
  • 1 to 2 days
  • 65 miles
  • Rough Dirt or Gravel

Cresting two passes that rise above 12,000 feet, this rough mountain road traverses around some of Colorado's most beautiful mountains.

More Info Bachelor Historic Loop
  • 1 to 2 hours
  • 17 miles
  • Rough Dirt or Gravel

This scenic route traces the history of Creede's silver mining district through the rugged high mountains of the San Juans. Interpretive signs and a guidebook relate much of the history of these storied mountain canyons.

More Info Brown's Park Road
  • 2 hours
  • 50 miles oneway
  • Maintained Dirt/Gravel

Browns Park was once outlaw country and if it's no longer that, you can explore the canyons and forests that once served as shelter for the ne'er do wells. Today, these rocks and forests are home to elk and deer.

More Info Cache La Poudre-North Park Scenic and Historic Byway
  • 3 hours
  • 101 miles
  • Paved

This scenic byway follows the course of the Cache la Poudre River, a beautiful mountain waterway and Colorado's only National Wild and Scenic River.

More Info California Park
  • 1 to 2 hours
  • 35 miles
  • Maintained Dirt or Gravel

Lazy grass prairie surrounded by snow-capped peaks make this drive one of the area's best short scenic drives.

More Info Chalk Creek Canyon
  • 2 to 3 hours plus stops
  • 55 miles round-trip
  • Maintained Dirt or Gravel

This mountain road passes four historic ghost towns and some interesting geologic formations such as the Chalk Cliffs as it rises up into the central Rockies.

More Info Clear Creek Canyon
  • 2 to 3 hours
  • 65 miles round-trip
  • Maintained Dirt or Gravel

15 miles north of Buena Vista, County Road 390 heads west into the mountains for a beautiful morning or evening drive. The maintained dirt road follows the creek up through thick pine forest.

More Info Collegiate Peaks Byway
  • 90 minutes to drive the byway.
  • 57 miles (91 km)

No matter where you begin your tour of the Collegiate Peaks Byway, you will be ushered into one of Colorado's most scenically spectacular, historically rich and recreationally diverse areas.

More Info Colorado River Headwaters
  • 2 hours
  • 80 miles
  • Paved

The Colorado River Headwaters Scenic Byway follows the beginnings of this major western river. Beginning at the west entrance of Rocky Mountain National Park, the byway and river head southwest past Grand Lake and Granby, before continuing east through Kremmling and State Bridge.

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