We have the Rocky Mountains on our doorstep, which in my opinion greatly outweighs anything mere men could create. It takes about 30 minutes from our house to get into the mountains, and about 2 hours to Rocky Mountain National Park, which is stunningly beautiful.

In Denver, we've got lots to do, lots of colleges, but there's not a lot of evidence of history- the oldest standing building in Denver is only from the 1800's. I should go to the Colorado history museum one of these days though. Outside of the metro area there's lots of "old western" type towns. I'm sure most of it is inauthentic though. I thought Cripple Creek would be interesting till we went and found it just to be one casino after another.