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Day Trips to Keystone, Colorado

Tourists planning trips to Keystone, Colorado should keep an open mind. Despite its many mountain peaks and accompanying rugged terrain, skiing and skiing-related activities are not the only options available. With thrills ranging from adventuresome to beautiful to downright dangerous, Keystone seems to provide a point of interest for every kind of visitor.

Animal Lover Fun
- Animal lovers take day trips to Keystone to enjoy surrounding activities with creatures of nature. Visitors to Good Time Adventures and Alpine Adventures can guide pack dogs through the area's snow-covered mountains or ride in dog sleds. Nearby Breckenridge Stables offers horseback rides through the forests of Keystone. Blue River Anglers in nearby Frisco, offer fly fishing instruction and guided trips to the Colorado River, the Blue River, Williams Fork River, Arkansas River and South Platte River.
Exercise
- Day trippers can get exercise from many other Keystone activities. Snow ski on Keystone's Dercum Mountain, North Peak or the Outback mountainside. The Keystone Nordic Center lets visitors practice cross country and Nordic skiing. Ice skate on the Keystone Lake. Snowshoe on 9 miles of trails. Enjoy heart-pumping workouts hiking in Keystone's Lenawee or Mt. Royal trails. Bike down the Oro Grande Mountain, Summit Cove and Swan Mountain trails.
Adrenaline Junkies
- Keystone offers activities that are devised to stimulate your adrenal glands. Adventure seekers are forewarned that some of these activities are life-threatening and tailored to more extremist personalities. However, because the activities are brief, they fit in well to day trip plans. Get your adrenaline pumping and fly down the Dercum Mountain in a tube. Go white water rafting.
Passive Sightseeing
- Keystone hospitality specialists are well aware that some of the areas best views are aerial. If altitude is not a deterrent, a hot air balloon ride can give tourists a 100-mile panoramic view of Colorado's highest peak, Mt. Elbert, the Sangre de Cristo mountain, the Continental Divide, Mosquito Range, Collegiate Peaks, the Sawatch mountains, South Park Valley and Pikes Peak. Views of Keystone Colorado can be enjoyed from chair lift rides and hired gondolas as well.
Rest and Relaxation
- With so many adventures in Keystone, it would seem like the last place a person would go for a break from a fast-paced or stressful lifestyle. However, putting on the greens of Keystone Ranch or Keystone River Course lets visitors take in miles of manicured scenery and breathe in fresh air which are both renewing to the human spirit. Day trippers can also book tension-relieving spa treatments and massage therapy and end the day with a fine dinner at the Alpenglow Stube or the Der Fondue Chessel restaurants.

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