Colorado Life Magazine

Eldorado Canyon State Park packs a wide range of Colorado outdoor life into its sandstone walls and creekside corridors. Climbers come for more than 500 technical routes, hikers and mountain bikers follow trails to canyon overlooks, and visitors gather along South Boulder Creek for picnicking, fishing, wildlife watching, fall color, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing.

The canyon’s history adds another layer to the landscape. Ute people once used the canyon for shelter, early visitors were drawn to the area’s warm springs and daredevil Ivy Baldwin crossed a steel cable between Bastille and Wind Tower more than 400 feet above the creek. Today, the park remains one of the Front Range’s most varied outdoor escapes, close enough for a quick trip from Boulder but layered enough to reward a full day.

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PC: Joshua Hardin, Eldorado Springs Historical Society/Boulder Carnegie Library