Colorado elopement planning guides

Rocky Mountain National Park has thirteen designated ceremony sites, a $300 permit and a calendar that fills a year out. Here is how to plan an Estes Park elopement that actually happens.

Summit County packs four ski towns, a reservable overlook and a 12,000-foot pass into a ninety-minute drive from Denver. Here is how to use it well.

The most photographed peaks in Colorado come with a reservation system, weekend blackouts and a shuttle. Here is how to elope at the Bells, on Independence Pass or in the Vail Valley without a surprise.

Telluride, Ouray and Ridgway sit in the steepest mountains in Colorado, at the end of the longest drive. Here is where to say your vows, what the town allows, and how to time the aspens.

Garden of the Gods lets you marry for free at six named spots, first come, first served. Here is how that works, what the rest of the Pikes Peak region allows, and when the light is best.

Boulder has a reservable stone amphitheater on a mountaintop, a lawn under the Flatirons that needs no permit for small groups, and a sunset overlook everyone fights over. Here is how to choose.

Denver and its foothills give you a courthouse, a red-rock park, a 12,000-foot pass and three state parks within ninety minutes of each other. Here is how each one handles a small wedding.

Fort Collins and Loveland sit under a hogback of red rock with a reservoir behind it and a Wild and Scenic river running out of the mountains. Here is how to marry there without a crowd.