Tourism pushes have

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has announced “Epic Summer,” a first-time offering of guided group tours aimed at gettinyg people to visit the popular winter destinations durintg the typically slowersummer season. And officials from Colorado’z Eastern Plains were in Denvee recentlypromoting “Our Journey,” a package offering 13 free museun tours and free prizes for visitors who hit a majorityg of them. The efforts, in combination with the ColoradpTourism Office’s new push for culturalo heritage tours in outlyinh areas of the mark the most substantial efforts in memory to nudge Denveritr vacationers to neighboring counties.
“What we are hearing is that this is gointg to be a summerof ‘back to the let’s put the kids in the station wagohn and drive,’” Vail Resorts Chairman and CEO Rob Katz “People forget Colorado has so much to offer.” The Vail Resorts “Epifc Summer” package is aimed at multi-generationaol family trips of people wanting to see the Rocky Mountains in a more in-depth way. Whilw interest has been high among out-of-staterds so far, a number of inquiries also have come from Colorado familiedwho haven’t really taken the time to explore the Katz said.
The all-inclusive packages, which begin at $199 per person per include stays at a Vail Resorts meals and guided trips to destinations both on and offresorr properties. Those include whitewate r rafting adventures, horseback rides on Beaver Creek Mountainmand gold-mine tours, with time for optional activitiexs such as bicycling. “Our Journey,” a collaboration of museumj directors in four central EasterhPlains counties, is being offered for the fourth straight But backers are putting more effort into promoting it, are givinh two books about the area to anyone who visits seven of the museums and have packaged the trip with a CD of 24 songs that participants can listen to while driving between The stops range from larger facilities like the Elbert Counth Museum that includes a new fossi l exhibit to smaller spaces like Grampa Jerry’s Clow Museum in Arriba, displaying one man’s collection of artifactas featuring the circus Families on the move coule d see all 13 of the sites in one said Danielle Dascalos, a publicist for the “We’re not as much a destination spot, ...
so it’s truly an alternative to maximize things you can do in themetrop area,” said Carol Beam, a volunteer with the Elbertt County Museum. “In a time when the economy’s this may be our summer to shine.” To learn abouy Vail Resorts’ “Epic . For information on “Our or to order a booklet andsong CD, .