National Parks & Sites in Colorado

17 National Park Service sites — explore trails, campgrounds, weather, and plan your visit with AI.

Amache National Historic Site — Colorado national park

Amache National Historic Site

CO

Amache, also known as the Granada Relocation Center, near Granada, Colorado was one of ten incarcera...

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site — Colorado national park

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

CO

In the 1840s the Arkansas River was the border between territory claimed by the United States and Me...

Black Canyon Of The Gunnison National Park — Colorado national park

Black Canyon Of The Gunnison National Park

CO

Big enough to be overwhelming, yet still intimate enough to feel the pulse of time. Come see some of...

California National Historic Trail — Colorado national park

California National Historic Trail

CA,CO,ID,KS,MO,NE,NV,OR,UT,WY

Follow in the footsteps of over 250,000 emigrants who traveled to the gold fields and rich farmlands...

Colorado National Monument — Colorado national park

Colorado National Monument

CO

Colorado National Monument preserves one of the grand landscapes of the American West. But this trea...

Curecanti National Recreation Area — Colorado national park

Curecanti National Recreation Area

CO

Three reservoirs and surrounding lands make up this recreation area in western Colorado. It is a lan...

Dinosaur National Monument — Colorado national park

Dinosaur National Monument

CO,UT

150 million years ago, dinosaurs roamed here. Their fossils are still embedded in the rocks. Today, ...

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument — Colorado national park

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

CO

Beneath a grassy mountain valley in central Colorado lies one of the richest and most diverse fossil...

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve — Colorado national park

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

CO

The tallest dunes in North America are the centerpiece in a diverse landscape of grasslands, wetland...

Hovenweep National Monument — Colorado national park

Hovenweep National Monument

CO,UT

Hovenweep preserves six prehistoric sites built between 1200 and 1300 CE which may have served as ce...

Mesa Verde National Park — Colorado national park

Mesa Verde National Park

CO

For over 700 years, the Ancestral Pueblo people built thriving communities on the mesas and in the c...

Old Spanish National Historic Trail — Colorado national park

Old Spanish National Historic Trail

AZ,CA,CO,NV,NM,UT

Follow the routes of mule pack trains across the Southwest on the Old Spanish National Historic Trai...

Pony Express National Historic Trail — Colorado national park

Pony Express National Historic Trail

CA,CO,KS,MO,NE,NV,UT,WY

It is hard to believe that young men once rode horses to carry mail from Missouri to California in t...

Rocky Mountain National Park — Colorado national park

Rocky Mountain National Park

CO

Rocky Mountain National Park's 415 square miles (265,807 acres) encompasses a spectacular range of m...

Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site — Colorado national park

Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site

CO

On November 29th, 1864, Chiefs Black Kettle, White Antelope, Left Hand and others were encamped with...

Santa Fe National Historic Trail — Colorado national park

Santa Fe National Historic Trail

CO,KS,MO,NM,OK

You can almost hear the whoops and cries of "All's set!" as trail hands hitched their oxen to freigh...

Yucca House National Monument — Colorado national park

Yucca House National Monument

CO

Yucca House National Monument preserves a large unexcavated pueblo with a stunning setting in Montez...

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