Guide to Colorado Backroads & 4-Wheel-Drive Trails, 3rd Edition Spiral-bound – May 1, 2010

I don't know how he does it, but Charles Wells seems to have a keen insight into those individuals who take and use their vehicles off the beaten path. This book is more than just a simple sightseeing guide. It's a vivid, well defined, and colorful depiction of the places in Colorado it describes. Yet it's easy to follow and understand without having too much unnecessary information that would distract from the trails you drive on. The entire series of FunTrek guide books are a standard bearer in the 4wheeling community and a must have for anyone looking to explore the less traveled back roads and trails in each respective state they cover. But being that the author/printer/distributor is actually from Colorado, they take great pride in presenting this as their premier book, and hopefully the others when they get revised will receive the same treatment. Arizona being one example that is in dire need of updating, as the info in that book is now going on 10 years old.As to the actual book itself, therein lies the only complaint I can give. This book has a blind, covered spiral binding that prevents it from being folded over on itself. Therefore defeating the main purpose of having spiral binding in the 1st place. The paper and ink used seems to be of high quality and the addition of color in this version is a welcome addition and gives it more of a high quality presentation feel if nothing more. I still give it 5 stars, cause everything else, from the format, to the editing to the content and pictures are top notch. My one detraction is more like a 1/2 star deduction, but you can't rate in 1/2 stars, so thats why i gave it 5.I'm proud to be the 1st to review the newest Funtreks guidebook, as it was released less than 1month ago as of my review date. I highly recommend this and every other one of the company's trail guide series books for whatever state/location they have one listed for.

Easy to use

Great routing information - and you and download the waypoints to your GPS (or routing software) for every one of the 100 routes in the book. This is an extremely important feature when laying out routes as maps are not sufficient (Often times there are more roads in the mountains than appear on the maps so you can easily take a wrong tern.) I wish it had more classifications other then Green (easy), Blue (medium) and Red (difficult to "extreme") as only three classifications limits an accurate assessment of difficulty. I would prefer a 1 to 5 scale. However, it is recognized in CO as the best book, hands down. The Forest Rangers I met thought it was the most accurate and detailed book available anywhere. An important feature - it is printed on a "plasticized ?" paper that is very durable and withstands the rough treatment of a trail guide. I Highly recommend it.

We used this guidebook on a week long visit to the backroads of Colorado. The book contained only the best trails, with just the most important details we needed to make good decisions in planning & following routes. Every recommended trail we followed was fun and satisfying, and of course was spectacularly beautiful. I also thought the rating system of the book was very accurate- easy trails were accessible to most kinds of vehicles, and difficult trails had just the kind of challenging and fun obstacles we love to explore in our 4WD Toyota 4Runner. We also used the key and recommendations in the book to find good areas for camping. I would highly recommend this guide to anyone planning a trip who desires to explore the backroads of Colorado.

We used this guide to drive nearly a dozen trails in the Silverton - Ouray area, in SW Colorado, this summer. I used it mostly to pick trails that were rated either easy or moderate, as we were driving my stock '04 Jeep Rubicon. It's my every-day-driver, and doesn't have a lift and bigger wheels to navigate some of the obstacles on the more difficult trails, like our '73 Jeep CJ-5 has. I especially like the author's description at the beginning of each trail, as well as the pictures. We wish we'd had more time to explore other parts of Colorado. We've used Charles Wells' guide to Arizona, so knew what to expect with the Colorado guide. Although we are experienced off-roaders, this guide would be good for beginners as well.

Good guide book for your 4x4/ATV/Off-roading families & friends to use.Be warned that you might never know that THEY might already have that book too!!

Worth every cent if you are going out to run trails in CO. Gives accurate step-by-step and offers some history highlights of thew area! The best part is the step-by-step with mile marker points so you know where you are and how to not get off on the wrong trail. I also have a very good / expensive topographical map of the area with the trails but we would have gotten lost several times without the close up detail of this guide.We also found another "thick" trail and area guide book for sale in CO. It was too thick with too much info! If you want to know the history of every mine, mill, tree, flower, bird, etc than it might make sense. If you want to run the trails and get tips about the sites that are relevant and useful info on the history....this book is the way to go!

I recently purchased a RZR 800 S UTV and was looking for a guide book for Arizona trails. The rating system and color photos are a big help in selecting the trails I plan to visit. I'm very happy with the content and quality of the document. I also ended up purchasing the associated SD memory chip for the guide for my Nuvi 255 GPS navigation unit. Now I have an easy way to navigate to the trails as well on where I'm located on all the trails.I plan to take several weeks touring AZ, UT and CO this summer and decided to purchase the guides for each of the states. This will allow me to pick the best trails for both scenery as well as my skill level. I'm using the guides to help plan this vacation as well as lots of trips in the future

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