Tucked into the narrow valley below the San Juan mountains, Ouray offers a lot of outdoors within easy reach of the tiny town. The former mining mecca named for a Ute chief has one of the most ...

The Perimeter Trail is arguably the best—and certainly the most scenic—way to experience Ouray, the historic Colorado town known as the “Switzerland of America” for its striking placement in the San ...

What makes Ouray the Switzerland of America? You find out with a quick drive up Red Mountain Pass, to overlooks of the quaint town tucked in a box canyon and framed by the white-capped wonders of the ...

OURAY, Colo. – I’ve hiked the Bear Creek National Recreation Trail near Ouray a couple of times, though I’ve never gone nearly as far as one can on the system of trails and roads it accesses. I know ...

Five participants from last weekend's Academy of Yoga retreat in Ridgway traveled a little farther south for a short afternoon hike above Ouray. Four of them posed — the Warrior Pose — beneath ...

OURAY, Colo. (KJCT) - A trail in the Uncompahgre National Forest leading to the iconic West Gold Hill Dinosaur Track Site will undergo significant maintenance work soon to shore up loose areas and ...

Hiking through Paradise Basin on the Million Dollar Trek, in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains. I was crouching in the shelter of a boulder, 12,000 feet up in Colorado's San Juan Mountains, as wind and ...

The U.S. Forest Service recently purchased several parcels of land from the Charles family in Ouray that contain 134 fossilized dinosaur footprints, the longest continuous trackway in the world. The ...

A crowd dressed in bright, puffy jackets whooped and clapped from the edge of a gut-twistingly deep gorge. Below them, a young guy with pink hair and an axe in each hand raced against a clock, ...

A giant dinosaur walked in a tight loop 150 million years ago. Its rare footprints reveal turning behavior, uneven steps, and ...