Colorado Road Trips to Wellness
As one of the most active and outdoorsy states in the nation, Colorado promotes personal health through outdoor adventures, relaxation, healing arts, and more. Check out a few samples.
Active Clinics
Chicks Climbing and Skiing (Ouray)
Chicks Climbing and Skiing empowers women through mountain sports and offers a variety of clinics and programs. Chicks with Picks, now in its 16th year, utilizes the world-class Ouray Ice Park to teach women of all skill levels how to ice climb efficiently and manage climbing systems. Chicks also offers Chicks Rock, women’s rock-climbing clinics and (new this year) Chicks with Stix, a women’s ski and snowboard program that covers a variety of clinics, from backcountry avalanche education to powder skiing and ski mountaineering.
Copper Woodward Camp (Copper Mountain)
A year-round action sport training camp invites guests of all ages to engage in summer camps, winter camps, drop-in sessions, private lessons, and more. During the summer, campers can choose dates that offer exclusive camps dedicated to snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding, etc. In the winter, all camp dates are focused on two-day freestyle camps where campers will spend half their days in the Barn, a 19,400 square-foot indoor facility equipped with Olympic trampolines, pump tracks, ramps, and foam pits. The second part of campers’ days will be spent at Woodward’s award-winning outdoor terrain parks.
Revitalizing Spa Retreats
Allegria Spa (Beaver Creek) The hydrotherapy techniques at Allegria Spa alternate hot and cold temperatures to restore the body and promote wellness. Modeled after ancient Roman baths and the origins of spa, the healing waters are complimentary when done before any service such as a hot stone massage, reflexology session, facial etc. The fitness center at Allegria Spa encourages wellness through exercise with classes including kinesis, yoga, Pilates, outdoor programs, and group fitness workouts.
Healing
Hot Springs
Spa of the Rockies (Glenwood Springs)
The Spa of the Rockies at Glenwood Hot Springs, home to the world’s largest hot springs pool, offers a 90-minute Ultimate Zen package that aims to heal every part of the body with therapeutic minerals, shea butter, and soothing oils. Aromatherapy, a therapeutic soak in the thermal hot springs, exfoliating body scrub, Swedish massage, and more are sure to ease the tightest of tensions.
Strawberry Park Hot Springs (Steamboat Springs)
The wilderness setting of Strawberry Park Hot Springs highlights the rustic beauty of the Yampa Valley. Here, several hot pools of varying temperatures are fed by the natural spring water and the rushing Hot Spring Creek. Guests can enjoy a massage in private massage huts or a watsu therapy in the hot spring’s private pool. Several miles of trails surrounding the hot springs invite guests to snowshoe through National Forest lands.
Find out more at Colorado.com.
