07.26.2014 8:00 Time to Fly!

Rocketeer Log In/Out

Vern and Gleda Estes
  1. Get your picture taken with Vern and Gleda Estes.

  2. Sink your teeth into a Rocky Ford cantaloupe.

  3. Dip your toes into the Arkansas river at the Pueblo Reservoir.

  4. Lay face down and look between the cracks of the wooden planks of the Royal Gorge Bridge.

  5. Climb the stairs of the highest spire of Bishop's Castle.

  6. Touch the cold skin of the B-29 Bomber at the Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum.

  7. Photograph an Antelope, the fastest animal in North America.

  8. Growl at a lion at the Pueblo Zoo.

  9. Spread your wings with the birds at the Raptor Center of Pueblo.

  10. Discover what it was like to travel the Santa Fe Trail by wagon-train with a stop-over at Bent's Old Fort.

  11. See the world's largest rocking chair.

  12. Get gassed in the chamber at the Colorado Prison Museum.

  13. Follow the dinosaur tracks along Skyline Drive in Cañon City. 

  14. Take a white-knuckle drive (to see the gold mines in Cripple Creek) along Shelf Road and return via Phantom Canyon Road.

  15. Enjoy a relaxing hike in the San Isabel National Forest.

  16. Explore the Solar System at the Space Foundation Discovery Center in Colorado Springs.

  17. Spot the kissing camels in the rock formations, and then rebalance the Balanced Rock in the Garden-of-the-Gods park.

  18. Visit the North Pole and see Santa Claus. 

  19. Hear the roar of Helen Hunt Falls.

  20. Get scale data on the Bomarc, Nike Hercules, and Nike Ajax Missiles at the Peterson Air & Space Museum (reservations required).