Does anyone know about Colorado?

Question

My husband and I are thinking of doing a Fairfield timeshare there in Durango and we were wondering 1)what is airfare like from kentucky to there, and 2)is in an isolated or pretty happening area, also 3)is it expensive (the area)?

Answer 1

Colorado is a lovely state... one of my favorites. Estes Park, Boulder and Colorado Springs are good choices for areas.

1. Airfare to Colorado is better than most places.

2. Durango is boring. Mostly just a place for college students. You should choose a better area.

3. Durango is not an expensive area and won't pay much either if you are considering working there.

Answer 2

I haven't been to Durango but I do live in Colorado and I wouldn't recommend Durango. If you are looking for a snow resort area, Durango is not the best. Try Telluride, Breckenridge and Vail. Airfare from Denver can be expensive. My family is in San Diego and the cheapest the airfare ever is is about $200 but most of the time it is more expensive than that. I've also looked into airfare for chicago, seattle and a couple places on the east coast, and chicago is the only reasonable airfare I have found, everywhere else seems to run 200-400, so I don't know exactly what it would be from Kentucky, but that gives you an idea. Check expedia, hotwire and a couple of airlines web sites and that should tell you what it would be from KY. I would say Durango is pretty isolated and I don't know how expensive it is, but probably more expensive than KY.

Answer 3

I was there last year. It is nice, not expensive, but not the place I would buy a time share. I would look more into the Breckenridge area. It is awesome and has so many activities. The summer is awesome. Cool at night, warm during the day. Beautiful scenery, surrounded my mountains. Basically, anywhere in Colorado, but Durango... not a happening place. Pretty, but don't plan on staying too long

Answer 4

Colorado is so pretty. The isolation depends on where you go, but there are some pretty places out there that are isolated. You just gotta do your research. I think the area is expensive, but then again, I'm coming from an area that is dirt cheap.I have to go out of town to work cause everything in town is minimum wage.

Answer 5

Durango -- my home town. But, I haven't been there for 20 years and haven't lived there since my teens.

Durango probably got its start from mining. Both coal and vanadium mines are a couple kinds I can think of. The vanadium mine (South of town) closed long ago, and I'm not sure about the coal.

When I was growing up there, some oil companies were showing some interest in the area near Durango, but I'm not sure how extensive their interest was or how long that interest lasted.

Durango has grown some since I lived there, but maybe half the town is still the old houses that were there when I was there.

Durango is the south end of the Durango to Silverton line, which is the oldest original steam-powered, narrow gauge railroad in the nation, as I recall.

The Animas River runs from North to South through the town, with bridges over it from one part of town to another. On the Southwest corner is a bridge on the highway that goes to Mancos and Cortez (near Mesa Verde National Park about 35 miles away?), and then either North to Dove Creek and into Utah near Monticello or South to Shiprock, NM, over the Dineh (Navajo) indian reservation. Go North out of town to go to Silverton and Ouray over the Million Dollar Highway (when it was built, it cost one million dollars per mile to carve it out of the mountain cliffs). If you drive South out of town, you can go into New Mexico, through Aztec. Durango is roughly 100 miles from the Four Corners, where Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico meet at a historical marker.

Fort Lewis A&M College (is it a university now?) is on the hill above Durango to the east.

If you like hiking, backpacking, camping, picnicking, hunting, fishing, and other outdoor adventures, you can find many places for that within 50 miles -- some such places are above timber line. Near Silverton are many high mountain lakes, such as Ice Lake (basin) or Clear Lake (both probably over 12,000 feet). About 20 miles to the Northeast you can find Vallecito Reservoir, which is a place where some go to fish, or use that for a jumping off area for backpacking into such places as Emerald Lake, where we used to get our limit of fine rainbow trout every time we hiked in (11.6 miles from the trailhead, so this would not be for a day trip). My dentist is my childhood friend, and he told me that Emerald Lake no longer has the fishing we used to enjoy.

I understand that Durango has moved more to a tourist destination, so some things are more expensive now. I also understand that housing there is quite expensive. The house my folks paid something like $16,000 for in 1950 is now valued at about a half-million.

You can find many good things about the outdoors in and near Durango. Those things don't change much.

When it comes to people there, I'm sure it has changed some since I left, but I'm also sure they are mostly still small-town friendly. Think modern Mayberry with a few more traffic lights.

I could go on and on about natural attractions in the area, but this should give you some notion about the Durango area.

Good luck with your decision.

Answer 6

Check out www.world66.com
www.kayak.com (excluding southwest airlines) is a great travel tool for finding good airfare.

I did a road trip through Colorado and it's so much fun! We spent time at some of the more popular ski resorts: Breckenridge is one of my favorites.

Good luck!

If you like hiking, biking, being outside, and exploring the outdoors you guys will love it!

Answer 7

Colorado is fabulous, but Durango is a terrible choice. Pick somewhere else in the state, if you can.

Answer 8

I'm from Colorado, u would have to use a search engine for airfare. You would have to ask those people though not me, or people on here.

Answer 9

it's the best place in the world their and Atlanta but i'm probably saying that because i was born in Colorado.

Answer 10

IT IS A STATE!!!!!