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I love Colorado. I spent a week or so there in 1993 and its one of my favourite states. Boulder is a great town, and the Rocky Mountain National Park has some of the most spectacular scenery I’ve seen, along with a nice range of quite visible mammals. Be sure to try biscuits and gravy for breakfast.

Boulder, June 1993 – try downtown Boulder for Eastern Cottontail, Raccoons and even Musk Rats.

Great Sand Dunes National Monument, July 1993 – Ord’s Kangaroo Rat.

Mount Evans, June 1993 – Mountain Goats were pretty easy to spot up at the summit where they lick salt from the road. These animals aren't so easy to see elsewhere in the Rockies south of Canada.

Rocky Mountain Goat, Mount Evans

Northern Colorado, June 1993 – look out for Pronghorn Antelope along the highway as you head up to Dakota and Wyoming.

Rocky Mountain National Park, June 1993 – a beautiful park with lots of wildlife. I had a  Pika (at a roadside view point high on a scree slope), Eastern Cottontail, Yellow Bellied Marmots (common), Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel, Wyoming Ground Squirrel, Least Chipmunk, Red Squirrel, Big Horn Sheep, Beaver (Cub Lake Trailhead at dusk), Coyote, Red Deer (Elk), Mule Deer.