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Go Play Outside

The very best hiking, camping, paddling, fishing, climbing, mountain biking, and road cycling within two hours of Denver.

5280 June 2012

Missy Franklin

Golden Girl

Missy Franklin likes texting, dancing in her basement, and having sleepovers with her friends from Regis Jesuit High School. She also happens to be the best female swimmer in the world and is poised to take home multiple medals from the London Olympic Games this summer. Meet the new face of American athletics.

 

Go Play Outside

The very best hiking, camping, paddling, fishing, climbing, mountain biking, and road cycling within two hours of Denver.

Top Dentists 2012

We teamed up with topDentists to locate Colorado’s 598 best dentists. A healthy smile is just a click away.

Keep On Truckin’

Forget Santa Fe. Continue on to Albuquerque, where you can while away three pleasurable days in the desert.

Signs of the Times

A pair of friends captures a slice of Americana before it disappears.

She’s Peaked

Our Q&A with Lynn Prebble.

Pony Up

How polo, the Sport of Kings, became the sport for an ordinary Colorado girl like me.

Small Town, Big Screen

Classic film, The Lone Ranger, is being remade in Creede.

Walk This Way

WalkDenver aims to change our four-wheels-first habit.

Let There Be Light

Meet the Lumineers.

Sip and Savor

Cuba Cuba’s spicy mango-cilantro sangria.

Get Away

You don’t have to travel far to escape the bright lights and the big city. Four of our favorite open spaces* across the Front Range get you closer to Mother Nature—and to Colorado’s storied past.

Green Thumbs

Get Involved: ReTree Steamboat.

Candy Shop

Utilitarian jeans are summer-ready in pretty, pastel hues.

Backyard Landscape

The interior of our Washington Park home was move-in ready, but the yard needed a master’s attention.

How to Make Banana Boats

Roasting marshmallows over a fire used to be our favorite camping ritual—until associate art director Dana Pritts taught us to make ember-baked banana boats.

The Insider’s Club

Food & Wine comes to life in the form of an Aspen restaurant.

Kitchen Prep

Did You Know? The secret behind Big Night.

By the Numbers: Lucile’s Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam

By the numbers: How many pounds of rhubarb does Lucile’s use to make strawberry-rhubarb jam?

Pleasantville

The Wooden Table is simple and unpretentious—sometimes to a fault.

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