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Pueblo Zoo www.pueblozoo.org |
Open all year, 7 days a week. Come for an hour, come for a day! Perfect year-round as a destination or a vacation stopover for kids from 0-99+. Enjoy a leisurely, flat, family-friendly stroll through exotic and colorful habitats, gardens and exhibits. Home to more than 400 animals and 120 species including guest favorites: lions, playful otters and penguins. Establish in 1934, the Pueblo Zoo features some of the best examples of historic WPA/CC architecture. The Zoo is managed by the Pueblo Zoological Society and accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). |
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Mission: Wolf www.missionwolf.org |
Mission: Wolf was created to provide shelter for captive wolves and allow humans a chance to understand them. Over the years, we have grown to an organization that reaches tens of thousands of people each year from coast to coast. |
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Chico Basin Ranch-Birding ranchlands.com/pages/birding-and-wildlife |
The Chico is well known as one of the prime birding locations in Colorado. Over 330 species of birds (some rarely seen in Colorado) have been sited on the ranch. The ranch operates a bird banding station during the fall and spring in partnership with the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. The ranch maintains a birding trail, outlined on a map that lists the prime birding locations to assist self-guided birders. |
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Garden Park Fossil Area Garden Park Fossil Locality-Colorado State Natural Area |
Garden Park Fossil Area is one of the most productive and historically important locations in the United States for the study of Late Jurassic dinosaurs. Fossil hunters and scientists from across the country have dug in Garden Park since 1877, when the nearby town of Cañon City, Colorado was still young. Important discoveries include the first complete skeleton of Allosaurus, some of the most complete Stegosaurus skeletons, as well as the first known remains of dinosaurs like Camarasaurus, Ceratosaurus, and Diplodocus. |
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Picket Wire Canyonlands www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/psicc/recarea/?recid=77620 |
The dinosaur tracks are located in the Purgatoire Valley, called Rio de las Animas Perdidas en Purgatorio or River of Lost Souls. The site of the trackway is named Picket Wire Canyonlands and extends 1/4 of a mile. It is North Americas largest tracksite containing over 1,300 footprints in four different layers of rock. |
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Florissant Fossil Beds www.nps.gov/flfo/index.htm |
Beneath a grassy mountain valley in central Colorado lies one of the richest and most diverse fossil deposits in the world. Petrified redwood stumps up to 14 feet wide and thousands of detailed fossils of insects and plants reveal the story of a very different, prehistoric Colorado. |
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Mountain Park Environmental Center www.hikeandlearn.org/ |
Pueblo Mountain Park is a 611 acre park owned by the City of Pueblo and managed by the Mountain Park Environmental Center. Pueblo Parks and Rec network with us to offer high quality year round programs in both recreation and education throughout the year. |
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Lake Pueblo State Park cpw.state.co.us/placestogo/Parks/lakepueblo |
Lake Pueblo, rated a fishing hot spot provides over 4,600 surface acres of water, 60 miles of shoreline and almost 10,000 acres of land. Land recreation includes hiking, biking, picnicking and diverse nature exploration. Miles of trails make it easy to discover the beauty of the shady Arkansas River below the dam or the wonder of 200-year-old Juniper trees. |
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Bishop Castle www.bishopcastle.org |
For nearly 60 years, Jim Bishop has been constructing one of the most impressive monuments to perseverance in Colorado. Three full stories of interior rooms complete with a Grand Ballroom, soaring towers and bridges with vistas of a hundred miles, and a Fire-Breathing Dragon make the Bishop Castle quite the unforgettable experience! |
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Frontier Pathways-Scenic Byway www.frontierpathways.com/ |
Breathtaking Scenery, Amazing Wildlife, and Friendly Towns. The history of this byway’s route tells of American Indians, trappers, explorers, traders, settlers, miners, farmers and growing cities. What makes this area unique is its still intact high-country ranches and its unspoiled meadows. This Byway climbs from 4,600 to 9,400 feet in elevation, with close-up views of-towering 14,000 foot mountain peaks. |
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List of Museums and Galleries in Pueblo visitpueblo.org/listing/arts/ |
Museums and Historical Landmarks in or near Pueblo |
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Beulah beulahland.biz/beulah.html |
Quaint and quiet, the unincorporated community of Beulah is situated in the beautiful Wet Mountains. Beulah is host to an annual outdoor arts and crafts festival and one of only three Yule Log Hunts in the United States. Beulah boasts a K-8 school, post office, general store, two restaurants, a coffee shop, and antique and gift stores. |