Winter Park
Downtown Denver:
Enjoy outdoor
dining at the I.M. Pei-
designed 16th Street
Mall, a pedestrian
promenade
featuring shops and
restaurants. Take
in the sights and sounds of LoDo – or “Lower Downtown”
– a 25-square-block historic district of restored Victorian
buildings. Or stop by the Molly Brown House Museum for a
glimpse at the turn-of-the-century opulence enjoyed by the
famously “unsinkable” Titanic survivor, Mrs. Molly Brown.
during the late 19th century, drawing such illustrious guests as
President Theodore Roosevelt and the notorious gambler and
gunfi ghter Doc Holliday, who is buried there. Red Rocks: Enjoy an outdoor concert by top-name acts at
The train continues on to Grand Junction, located in the this geologically formed, open-air amphitheatre located just
heart of Colorado’s wine country. Home to more than a dozen 15 miles west of Denver.
wineries, the Grand Junction area is the gateway to the Colorado
National Monument, Mesa Verde National Park and offers easy Tour of Colorado
access to Grand Mesa National Forest. The California Zephyr then Wine Country:
crosses into Utah and stops at Salt Lake City before continuing Bicycle your way
through Reno, Nevada and Sacramento, concluding its 2,438- through Grand
mile journey near San Francisco at Emeryville, California. Junction and
For those seeking to experience Colorado’s Native Colorado’s wine
American and pioneer heritage, Amtrak Southwest Chief
®
country, admiring
service retraces the route of the earliest American Indians, the vineyards and
traders and pioneers along the famed Santa Fe Trail that stopping to sample the Chardonnays, Merlots and Cabernet
settled the West. With service from Chicago to Los Angeles, Sauvignons produced by more than a dozen local wineries.
the Southwest Chief stops in Kansas City and Dodge City,
Kansas before entering Colorado. After pausing at La Junta La Junta’s Trading History:
– one of the Santa Fe Trail’s earliest trading posts – the Experience life in an
Southwest Chief stops next at the mining town of Trinidad, 1840s adobe trading post
where Wild West legend Bat Masterson served as marshal at Bent’s Old Fort National
in the 1880s. The train then crosses into New Mexico and Historic Site in La Junta.
continues on through Albuquerque and Williams, Arizona – Then immerse yourself in
connecting point for the Grand Canyon -- before arriving at Native American culture
its fi nal destination, Los Angeles. at the Koshare Indian Museum and Kiva Trading Post.
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