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As winter comes to the American Rockies, we head into the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming – the setting for some of America’s most stirring national parks, plus craft beer, pioneer heritage and seasonal activities galore
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As winter comes to the American Rockies, we head into the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming – the setting for some of America’s most stirring national parks, plus craft beer, pioneer heritage and seasonal activities galore
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A view towards 4,011-metrehigh Taylor Peak, one of the points along the Continental Divide of the Americas, inside Colorado’s snowbound Rocky Mountain National Park
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