Biking

If you are traveling the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail heading east, the first friendly community you will stumble across will be the town of Olney Springs. Friendly people, shaded parks and a post office offer the travel weary biker a perfect respite. While just a few short miles further, the town of Crowley, is like taking a step back to the frontier days, as you travel along Main Street looking over the town's original buildings. Hiding just off the beaten path, a few blocks off the main street, you will find one of Colorado's best preserved examples of turn of the twentieth century architecture at the Crowley County Heritage Center. Free bathrooms, manicured heritage gardens, and an air conditioned museum make for a stop well worth the time.

Once you hop back onto All Veteran's Memorial Highway, heading east, the next town you will come across is the town of Ordway, CO. Ordway offers several restaurants to carb up at, a well stocked grocery store, a tavern, a nicely shaded park, and a friendly water park to cool off in. From Ordway you are only three short miles from the two sister lakes of Lake Henry and Lake Meredith. Both Lakes offer free camping sites, in addition to an opportunity to frolic in their cool waters, and visit with campers from a several state region on the weekends. If you happen across the lakes mid week you often feel as if you have the lakes all to yourself.