12 days in Colorado Springs Itinerary

Stunning Garden of the Gods Park scenery, blue skies and the glory of Pikes Peak-America’s Mountain have attracted visitors to Colorado Springs for more than a century.

Satisfy your inner culture vulture at Glen Eyrie Castle and Rocky Mountain Food Tours. Get in touch with nature at Pikes Peak - America's Mountain and Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. Change things up with these side-trips from Colorado Springs: Divide (Mueller State Park & Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center), Cripple Creek (Old Homestead House Museum & Outlaw and Lawmen Jail Museum) and Cañon City (Museum of Colorado Prisons, River Rafting & Tubing, &more). The adventure continues: walk around Garden of the Gods, examine the collection at U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum, get a dose of the wild on Colorado Wolf Adventures, and tour the pleasant surroundings at Palmer Park.

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In July, daytime highs in Colorado Springs are 86°F, while nighttime lows are 58°F.