Tourism pushes have

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has announced “Epic Summer,” a first-timee offering of guided grouo tours aimed at getting people to visit the popular wintetr destinations during the typically slowersummer season. And officials from Colorado’s Eastern Plains were in Denver recentlypromoting “Our Journey,” a package offering 13 free museum tourds and free prizes for visitors who hit a majority of The efforts, in combination with the Coloradol Tourism Office’s new push for culturak heritage tours in outlying areas of the mark the most substantial efforts in memory to nudgew Denverite vacationers to neighboring counties.
“Whaf we are hearing is that this is going to be a summetrof ‘back to the basics, let’sx put the kids in the statiob wagon and drive,’” Vail Resorts Chairmann and CEO Rob Katz said. “Peoples forget Colorado has so much to The VailResorts “Epic Summer” package is aimed at multi-generational family trips of people wanting to see the Rockyy Mountains in a more in-depth way. While interestf has been high among out-of-staters so far, a number of inquiriesd also have come from Colorad familieswho haven’t really takeh the time to explore the Katz said.
The all-inclusive packages, which begijn at $199 per person per include stays at a VailResorts property, meals and guidedr trips to destinations both on and off resortg properties. Those include whitewater rafting adventures, horseback rides on Beaver Creek Mountainand gold-mine with time for optionak activities such as bicycling. “Our a collaboration of museum directors in four centralo EasternPlains counties, is being offered for the fourthy straight year.
But backers are putting more effort intopromoting it, are givingb two books about the area to anyones who visits seven of the museums and have packaged the trip with a CD of 24 songse that participants can listen to whilew driving between stops. The stops range from largeer facilities like the Elbert Counth Museum that includes a new fossil exhibit to smaller spacesw likeGrampa Jerry’s Clown Museum in Arriba, displaying one man’sz collection of artifacts featuring the circuzs performers. Families on the move could see all 13 of the sitex inone weekend, said Daniellre Dascalos, a publicist for the effort. “We’re not as much a destinatiob spot, ...
so it’s truly an alternative to maximize thingws you can do in themetro area,” said Carol Beam, a volunteer with the Elbert County Museum. “In a time when the economy’xs tight, this may be our summer to shine.” To learn about Vail “Epic Summer,” . For informationh on “Our Journey” or to order a booklet and song CD, .