MOON COLORADO

Moon Handbooks give you the tools to make your own choices, with

• Can’t-miss sights, activities, restaurants, and accommodations, marked with
• Suggestions on how to plan a trip that’s perfect for you, including:

   14-Day Best of Colorado
   Outdoor Adventure
   Music Lover’s Tour
   14-Day History Tour
   10-Day Ski Bum’s Tour
   10 Days in the Rockies (Without Skiing)

• 32 detailed and easy-to-use maps
• The firsthand experience and unique perspective of author Steve Knopper

Moon Colorado
6th Edition
Steve Knopper
ISBN 1-56691-701-8
$19.95
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Steve Knopper has lived in Colorado off and on since 1982. A native of Livonia, Michigan, he and his parents took twice-a-year vacations in the mountains and eventually bought an empty chunk of land in Evergreen. After falling in love with the foothills and laid-back college-town spirit of Boulder, they sold the Evergreen property in the early 1980s, bought a condo in Boulder, and set to building a house in the foothills on the outskirts of town.

Steve attended Boulder High School and grew to love bushwhacking the trails and hills surrounding his house. Although he never picked up downhill skiing — a fact with which his classmates at the University of Michigan regularly tormented him — his primary driver's education was on a steep mountain road during a blizzard. By 1991, he had accepted a job writing about rock 'n' roll, the homeless, and hamburgers for Boulder's Daily Camera.

After almost three years at the Camera, Steve decided to see if the world offered more than University of Colorado parties, hippie jam-band concerts, and a laid-back ski-bum culture. He took a job as a feature writer at the Gary, Indiana Post-Tribune, covering problems Boulder rarely, if ever, experienced: AIDS, truck-stop prostitution, mob-style triple homicides, and segregation. After a year in Gary, he quit his job to become a full-time, Chicago-based freelance writer. For the next 10 years, he placed articles in Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, SPIN, New York, Backpacker, National Geographic Traveler, and Wired; wrote a daily online column for Yahoo! Internet Life magazine; appeared weekly as a technology correspondent for Fox News Chicago; edited music books on lounge and swing; and co-wrote 2004's The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Band with his Denver neighbor Mark Bliesener, manager of the local rock trio Big Head Todd and the Monsters. Steve now covers the music business for Rolling Stone, and writes regularly for the Rocky Mountain News, the Chicago Tribune, Newsday, and many other publications.

Steve and his wife, Melissa, bought a house in northwest Denver in 2001, and had a daughter, Rose, in 2002. He and his family continue to take regular weekend getaways in Winter Park, Telluride, Estes Park, Aspen, and Crested Butte.