Covering more than 350 of Colorado's mineral, gemstone, and fossil collecting sites, this guide provides rock hunters with an overview of the state's geologic origins and mining history, along with guidelines for safe, legal, and responsible rockhounding.

A complete guide to finding and collecting the state's gems and minerals.

"The third edition of this popular guide is now even better--it's full color. Colorado's multihued rocks--from white and red sandstones to green shales and pink granites--are vividly splashed across the pages in stunning color photographs. Detailed color maps and diagrams clearly distill the state's complex bedrock geology. Updated text includes information about new discoveries, such as the mastodons and other Pleistocene fossils found at Snowmass,...

Inside you will find: hikes in 29 of Colorado's 44 wilderness areas, 120 hikes-including 23 Colorado 14ers, information on each wilderness area, driving directions to each trailhead, mile-by-mile directions and clear trail maps, estimated hiking times, trail ratings from easy to most difficult, elevation gain and loss for each hike, recommended seasons.

Rockhounding Colorado takes you to 81 of the best rockhounding sites in the state. Search for amethyst and quartz at the Crystal Hill Mine, check out the view at Douglas Pass while looking for leaf imprints and insect fossils, or head to Saint Peters Dome to uncover green, white, and purple fluorite.

It's not necessary to travel far from home for a great hike. With forty of the area's best hikes, all of them within an hour's drive of Colorado Springs, and these information packed guides in hand, readers have everything they need for the adventure they seek, from an easy nature walk to a multiday backpack. Each hike includes everything about the trail: color photos, brief route description, directions to the trailhead (including GPS coordinates),...

Includes 50 scenic sites in northern Colorado. Also included is background history; road directions; maps; and more for each site.

"The tenth book in the Geology Underfoot Series, Geology Underfoot on Colorado's Western Slope offers an inside view of the active and sometimes enigmatic landscape west of the Continental Divide. In this arid region where water drains through deep canyons en route to the Pacific, the crumpled rocks of the Colorado Rockies meet the famous red rocks of the Colorado Plateau to the west and the crazy pile of San Juan volcanics in the southwest. Nothing...