Looking for an aspeny autumn hike away from crowds and close to Boulder? Try the section of the Switzerland Trail starting on the Gold Hill Road and heading north on FS 93 in Arapaho National Forest.

Editor’s note: A version of this story appears in this year’s edition of the Winter in Aspen/Snowmass magazine. Imagine standing in a snow-covered forest so serene that you can hear the soft murmur of ...

I was up in the White Mountains this weekend, walking out to my car in the AMC’s Highland Center parking lot after a hike, and there between the buildings and the cars was a gorgeous aspen tree ...