With hiking boots, beanies, and puffy jackets retrieved from winter storage, it seems everyone is dressing as a mountain local for this year’s Halloween. October is more than a month of ghouls and goblins in Durango. It’s a magical time of fall colors, historic tours, and festivals. It’s a chance…
What better way to experience Durango like a local than with a local? On a guided adventure, visitors gain VIP access to some of our most beautiful sights, secret views, and historic hideaways. Soar the skies in a Piper Comanche, mush professional sled dogs through the national forest, chase the…
Durango can be known for many things - big mountains, unbeatable skiing, and a historic narrow gauge are just a few that come to mind. However, there’s more to the southwest than meets the train. This wild western frontier found its footing as a mining town, but decades of hard work, love, and…
Last summer, we shared 100 unique ways to spend the season in Durango. From farmers markets and music festivals to secret bars and rugged alpine hikes, our visitors enjoyed a jam-packed summer of wild mountain adventure. One year later, we’re adding 100 more bullets to your Colorado bucket list…
They call it the dead of winter for a reason. A lifeless time spent feeding the fireplace and shivering under layers of wool, it’s no secret that seasonal depression can affect us all. Even in our favorite mountain vacation towns, the depths of winter can be biting, icy, and miserable. As the magic…
Newcomers to Durango often face the same dilemma: we share a deep fascination with our town’s history but with little information to go on. We devour books, visit museums, take pictures of historical buildings and scan every plaque and sign downtown in hopes of new information to be learned. But…
As if Durango could be even more beautiful, wait until you’ve seen our town with a fresh blanket of snow. Winter is the most magical time in Durango, a season that brings promise of a fresh start and new beginnings. We celebrate love, family, nature, and spend every snowbound adventure in the…
Whether you’re a believer or not, Durango may be the most haunted town in all of Colorado. Founded by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in the 1880s, Durango was built on the mining boom. If these mountains could talk, they’d share the spooky and strange stories of the Wild West - lone rangers…
With so much to see and do in Durango, you could spend weeks here and not get it all in. But even if you only have a few days to spend in our mountain paradise, you can still experience the best that Durango has to offer! With the help of Mild to Wild Rafting & Jeep Tours, we’ll let you in on the…
Colorado’s newest scenic and historic byway is open to travelers, and like all great things in life, the journey starts from Durango. The 125-mile Tracks Across Borders Byway is a guaranteed road trip favorite. Connecting our beloved Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad to the historic Cumbres…
