The Rocky Mountaineer Provides New Routes for Summer time 2025

Exploring Colorado has by no means been simpler, thanks to 2 new journey packages from Rocky Mountaineer, a scenic rail tour firm famend for its routes by means of the Rocky Mountains and panoramic home windows. The posh line is providing shorter journeys on the “Rockies to the Pink Rocks” route, which historically runs between Denver and Moab, Utah, with a cease in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

This June, the Rocky Mountaineer will run two shortened Rockies to the Pink Rocks packages, each working from Denver to Glenwood Springs and again, with two overnights in Glenwood Springs, a mountain city identified for its plentiful scorching springs and mountain views. The shortened routes can be found solely for 2025.

The shorter of the 2 limited-time choices is the Glenwood Springs Getaway Bundle, which incorporates two days aboard the Rocky Mountaineer and two nights in Glenwood Springs. The longer Glenwood Springs Traditional Bundle contains two nights in Denver, one initially and one on the finish of the journey, and two nights in Glenwood Springs.

Each packages take vacationers on a scenic route out of Denver and into the mountains. The prepare travels throughout the Continental Divide and alongside the Colorado River, ending with a few of the state’s most spectacular canyon views.

However the journey is just half of it. When you arrive in Glenwood Springs, you may discover one of many metropolis’s many scorching springs. The historic Glenwood Springs Scorching Springs Resort has the world’s largest scorching springs pool, and boasts 5 new “mineral baths.” And alongside the banks of the Colorado River sprawl the terraced scorching spring swimming pools of Iron Mountain Scorching Springs, which embody WorldSprings swimming pools that mimic the mineral content material of well-known scorching springs world wide, just like the Blue Lagoon in Iceland.

For a pure, underground steam room expertise, go to Yampah Spa and Vapor Caves, which is constructed into the mountain and has underground, vapor-filled caverns. These caves are considered one of only some identified pure vapor caves in North America that naturally let off therapeutic steam.

Glenwood Springs can be dwelling to America’s solely mountaintop theme park (with the highest looping curler coaster within the U.S.) and loads of mountaineering. This contains the well-known path to Hanging Lake, a travertine lake with waterfalls in Glenwood Canyon.

The brand new Glenwood Springs packages on the Rocky Mountaineer can be found for choose departures from June to August. It may be booked for both SilverLeaf or SilverLeaf Plus. All SilverLeaf visitors are handled to panoramic views from the expansive home windows, gourmand meals, and drinks served at your seat. SilverLeaf Plus visitors additionally get the identical, plus unique lounge automotive entry and higher-end alcohol, together with locally-sourced wine and hand-crafted cocktails.

The total listing of Rockies to the Pink Rocks packages, together with the 2 limited-time routes and the total journey between Denver and Moab, will be seen at rockymountaineer.com.