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Chris Meehan

Author of Colorado’s Best Front Range Adventures: The Greatest Hiking, Climbing, Paddling and More From Denver to Colorado Springs and Fort Collins and Climbing Colorado’s Fourteeners: From the Easiest Hikes to the Most Challenging Climbs, both Falcon Guides, Chris Meehan is an internationally published outdoors and sustainability-focused writer, author, and editor. He is an experienced gear reviewer, tester, and travel writer who has explored multiple continents.

Articles By Chris Meehan

Hike We Like: Harrison Plane Crash Site in Palmer Lake

Trek to the remains of a Cessna O-1 Bird Dog that, despite going down in a 1952 snowstorm, seems frozen in time in this ponderosa pine forest.

Riding Sno-Go ski bikes at Winter Park

Want a Different Way To Charge the Pow? Check Out a Ski Bike.

Home to the only Sno-Go Ride Center in the state, Winter Park offers visitors a hassle-free way to get into ski biking.

Riding a brand-new Ski-Doo Grand Touring Electric snowmobile with Grand Adventures in Winter Park.

Try a New Spin on Winter Touring with an Electric Snowmobile

Head to Winter Park to try Ski-Doo’s new Grand Touring Electric Snowmobile, one of the quietest and most eco-friendly rides in the industry.

Golden: The Golden Gate Canyon State Park Loop

On a crisp bluebird day, this epic hike in the closest state park to Denver offers plenty of fall color and vistas for hikers, bikers, and equestrians.

A mogul field at Winter Park Resort in Colorado

A Complete List of Everything Alterra Mountain Company Owns

The six-year-old company doesn’t own as much as heavyweight Vail Resorts, but Alterra is scaling up—most recently with the announcement that it will purchase indie favorite Arapahoe Basin. Here’s a timeline of how the industry giant has grown.

A Complete List of Every Mountain Vail Resorts Has Ever Purchased

Over the past two decades, Vail Resorts has dramatically changed the landscape of the ski industry—acquiring properties around the world and becoming the most notorious corporation in mountain resort management. Here’s a timeline of how they did it.

The Extreme Sport of Ice Climbing Is Coming to Civic Center Park

Prepare for thrills, chills, and spills as the world’s top ice climbers, hailing from 18 countries, compete in the first U.S.-hosted finals of the UIAA World Cup Ice Climbing competition.

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