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Blessed with a large mass of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado is home to some of the most scenic landscape views in the world. It offers such a myriad of beautiful places to discover and four seasons to pick from.

If you were to survey the country to find the most beautiful state in the US, we are confident that Colorado would always be one of the most frequently mentioned answers. For example, Colorado was voted the state “with the most beautiful scenery” in a 2013 poll of 1,545 participants.

Here in the Rocky Mountain State, we are lucky enough to have four national parks, dozens of scenic towns, and an infinite amount of breathtaking terrain and unforgettable vistas. Plus, Colorado is the eighth largest state in the country and hosts a wide variety of natural beauty between 3,317’ and 14,440’ in elevation, so it can be difficult to know where to start exploring.

Although true beauty is always in the eye of the beholder and our state has a ton of it to behold, we’ve assembled this collection of a dozen beautiful places to visit in Colorado.

To kick things off, we’d like to mention the Maroon Bells, one of the most photographed and iconic destinations in Colorado. Located in the White River National Forest outside of Aspen, the Maroon Bells are a set of towering mountains nestled between rolling hills, adjacent peaks, and clear alpine waters.

To visit Maroon Bells, reservations may be required for parking in the lot adjacent to Maroon Lake, the scenic area’s access point. During peak tourism seasons, most visitors reserve a shuttle from town. More information on Maroon Bells’ transportation and reservations can be found on aspenchamber.org.

If you’d like to extend your visit overnight, the Maroon Bells Scenic Area is a great access point for backcountry camping in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness and the extending White River National Forest. Close to Maroon Lake, the Forest Service also maintains the East Maroon Portal Site and several other picnic areas and campgrounds along Maroon Creek Rd.

Although it is tough to call this 1,200-foot hole in the ground a “hidden gem,” Royal Gorge is one of the most beautiful places in Colorado that may not be on the radar for many first-time visitors. Carved by the Arkansas River in modern-day Fremont County, Royal Gorge is an incredible sight to see located roughly an hour from both Pueblo and Colorado Springs.

Interested tourists are welcome to visit the Royal Gorge Park and Bridge, which is advertised as open 365 days a year. An entry fee is required to walk across the 1,260-foot long suspension bridge situated over 1,000 feet above the canyon’s base. Visitors are also welcome to enjoy food and drink, several rides (including a zip line across the canyon), and other activities with additional purchases.

If you’re afraid of heights or simply want an unbelievable experience from a different perspective, it is also possible to see the beauty of Royal Gorge via railroad. The Royal Gorge Route Railroad follows the Arkansas River at the base of the towering canyon walls with meals and open-air cars on board.

While we’re on the subject of deep river valleys, let us travel about 175 miles directly west to the Black Canyon of the Gunnison in Montrose County, western Colorado. Nearly doubling the vertical of the Royal Gorge, the Black Canyon of the Gunnison is made of towering dark rock walls as high as 2,250 feet above the rushing waters below.

In fact, the Painted Wall in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison is Colorado’s largest cliff and the 3rd highest in the contiguous United States. After decades as a National Monument, Black Canyon National Park was officially designated in 1999. The area includes ample opportunity for outdoor activities such as rock climbing, hiking, mountain biking, and kayaking in a generally uncrowded area.

Despite being one of the least visited National Parks in the Country, Black Canyon of the Gunnison offers endless serene beauty with tons of interesting geological and anthropological history. Learn more about the area in our 10 Surprising Facts About Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park.

Headed back east, Great Sand Dunes National Park is one of the most unexpectedly beautiful places in Colorado. Tucked into the Sangre de Cristo Range, the Grand Sand Dunes are the tallest dunes on the continent, with heights up to 755 feet sitting below a scenic mountain backdrop.

As a certified International Dark Sky Park, the Great Sand Dunes (or simply, the Dunes) are a scenic spot, day or night. Plus, the unique ecosystem lends itself to opportunities for interesting wildlife viewing experiences.

After being designated as Great Sand Dunes National Monument in 1932, the area officially earned status as Great Sand Dunes National park in 2004. A fee is required to enter the park, which has opportunities for camping, hiking, sand-boarding, and floating in a seasonal river at the base of the dunes.

Of course, we cannot talk about national parks in Colorado without suggesting Rocky Mountain National Park, which covers over 400 square miles of scenic alpine terrain. Most notably, Trail Ridge Road is one of the most beautiful drives in Colorado, spanning 48 miles through the park between the towns of Estes Park and Grand Lake.

As the highest elevation continuous paved road in the country, the journey along Trail Ridge Rd features panoramic views of the Great Continental Divide. Taking into consideration the ample opportunities to see native wildlife and wildflowers, Trail Ridge Road is one of the best ways to explore all of Colorado’s natural mountain beauty.

To visit Rocky Mountain National Park, a fee or park pass is required and reservations may also be necessary. Vehicle access along Trail Ridge Road is generally only available from late May through October of each year.

Alongside Maroon Lake and Bear Lake (in Rocky Mountain National Park), Hanging Lake near Glenwood Springs is one of Colorado’s most photographed bodies of water. Located at the end of a steep 1.2-mile trail, Hanging Lake is well worth the trip, featuring multiple waterfalls feeding into the picturesque turquoise-blue water.

Of course, Hanging Lake is just one of many beautiful places in Colorado High Country’s I-70 corridor. For hiking, skiing, or additional sightseeing, there are tons of opportunities for scenic outdoor recreation in the cities and resorts throughout the neighboring Eagle and Summit Counties.

Hidden inside of a box canyon in southwest Colorado, Telluride is one of the most beautiful places both in the state and the entire country. In the small city’s downtown area, Main Street offers unforgettable charm and accommodations surrounded by breathtaking mountain views.

Whether you are in town for one of Telluride’s many famous festivals or simply want to ski a few runs, there is simply no avoiding the beauty found on Main Street with stops for coffee, meals, movies, or more. Want to get here quickly? Thankfully, Telluride is home to the highest elevation airport in the country for commercial flights.

Although Telluride is arguably the most beautiful, there are plenty of other mountain towns in Colorado that are in the running for the most scenic Main Street. Around the Centennial State, visitors are also guaranteed picturesque downtown experiences in places like Breckenridge, Nederland, Creede, Silverton, Ouray, Salida, Manitou Springs, and more.

As the capital and the most populous city in Colorado, Denver is inescapably a part of most Centennial State visits. Whether you are flying in and out of Denver International Airport or have just completed a long journey across the western mountains or eastern plains, Denver is a hub for both transportation and beautiful urban spaces.

If you’re looking for the most beautiful places in Denver, we suggest starting with a street art tour of the River North Arts District (also known as RiNo). Heading downtown, you’ll have opportunities to explore Denver Central Market, Coors Field, Larimer Square, and other popular destinations. While everyone loves a good view of the mountains, Denver is home to plenty of rooftop patios, parks, and other locations to watch the sunset behind the Rockies.

If you prefer shopping to hiking, look no further than Denver’s Historic 16th Street Mall for a sprawling passenger street filled with stores and restaurants. There is a free shuttle for 16th Street Mall visitors which provides close walking access to the Colorado State Capitol and Denver’s Union Station, two of the city’s most interesting architectural sites.

Visible from nearly the entire Front Range, Pikes Peak is one of the most beautiful mountains to visit or admire from a distance in Colorado. With passenger vehicle access all the way up the 14,115′ mountain, visitors can carefully make their way to the top for panoramic views of the Rocky Mountains and eastern plains.

At the top of Pikes Peak, the views can be celebrated with food, beverages, or an item from the gift shop. Vehicles are typically permitted to ascend Pike’s Peak all year round, with limited access to the top of the mountain during winter months. A fee is required to visit Pikes Peak and group or seasonal passes may be available. If time permits before or after your visit, be sure to take a scenic stroll around the red rock fins within the Garden of the Gods or the Red Rock Canyon Open Space.

Although there are many beautiful mountain ranges across Colorado, the San Juans are arguably the most scenic. The San Juan Mountains tower above southwest Colorado with year-round access to breathtaking views often nicknamed the “American Alps.”

While we have already mentioned a stop in Telluride, the San Juans are filled with historic Colorado mining and railroad towns like Silverton, Ouray, Durango, Creede, and Lake City. For an unforgettable road trip experience, many people cite the area’s Million Dollar Highway as one of the most scenic drives in the state, traveling over several high-elevation mountain passes.

For our penultimate scenic spot, we’d like to suggest the Paint Mines Interpretive Park as quite possibly the most beautiful place in Colorado east of Denver. Located outside of Calhan, Colorado, the Paint Mines Interpretive Park is reached approximately 45 minutes from Colorado Springs via US Highway 24 East.

The “Paint Mines” derive their name from the colorful variety of interesting rock formations found in the area’s unique combination of badlands, prairie, and wetlands ecosystems. Around the designated archeological district, visitors can wander between many unique bands of colorful earth featuring bright hues like yellow, red, white, orange, and purple.

As a truly unique landscape, Paint Mines visitors are typically left feeling as if they have stepped foot on another planet or even inside of a Dr. Seuss book. With easy access from Front Range cities, the Paint Mines Interpretive Park is a beautiful place for truly unique photoshoots.

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In 2005, Sun Life opened a service center in Gurgaon, India, to provide trade processing and technology support for Sun Life Financial business units around the world. In the same year, Sun Life bought CMG Asia and CommServe Financial, the Hong Kong insurance and pension operations of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, tripling its client base and adding group insurance and pensions to its lines of business. In World War II, as part of Operation Fish, UK securities were secretly moved to the Sun Life Building for safekeeping. A persistent but incorrect rumor is that the UK Crown Jewels were illegally shipped out of the UK during World War II and stored there deliberately scattered in Montreal to account for increased activity in the building. [6]

During the post-war period, the company's successful business strategies made it one of Montreal's largest administrative employers, one of Canada's leading corporations, as well as a global player in the life insurance field. During the first half of the 20th century, the city of Montreal had been the economic center of Canada, but was losing ground to Toronto. As early as 1950, Toronto's economic activity surpassed that of Montreal when it came to trading and stock market capitalization.

The advent, in the 1960s, of political and terrorist movements demanding Quebec's independence from Canada cast a pallor of uncertainty over the business community. Bill 101 required more than communications in French with French-speaking staff. He made French the official language of the workplace.

It also provided that current and future employees who could not speak English would not be discriminated against because of their inability to speak English. For the largest employer of English speakers in Montreal, this would make things very difficult. Many, if not most, of the employees at Sun Life's headquarters in 1979 were not fluent in French. Sun Life made it quite clear that this was the reason for their move when they made the announcement.

The PQ government was quick to label Sun Life as "bad corporate citizens" and claimed that if "only they had warned us, we could have worked something out." [13] Downsizing Sun Life's Montreal office didn't happen overnight. The transfers and moves occurred by department and did not begin until several months after the announcement.

In 1980, 300 head office employees were located in Toronto. [14] In 1977, the newly elected sovereign government of Quebec passed the French Language Charter (known as Bill 101), making it mandatory for medium- and large-scale businesses to use the French language when communicating with French-speaking staff. .

The law was received negatively by the English-speaking business community, many of whom felt that the historic rights of the English-speaking minority should be respected. The new government also promised a referendum on Quebec's sovereignty, injecting instability into Montreal's business community. [7] On January 6, 1978, Sun Life became the first major company to leave Quebec after the election, announcing that it would move its headquarters to rented space in Toronto, Ontario. [7] [8] [9] Officially, Sun Life said it was motivated by the political instability and economic uncertainty of Quebec's future, but skeptics said it was the company's unwillingness to meet the Project's requirements. of Law 101. [9] In a reaction the next day, the province's finance minister, Jacques Parizeau, called Sun Life "one of Quebec's worst exporters of capital," [10] and threatened to freeze some 400 million Canadian dollars. in assets. [10] [11]

In 2007, Sun Life purchased Genworth Financial's US employee benefits business, ranking in the top 10 in the US group benefits market. Sun Life continued to expand its wealth management business with the 1982 acquisition of Massachusetts Financial Services (MFS), the Boston-based mutual fund and investment management company. It entered the mutual fund business in Canada by forming Spectrum Mutual Fund Services in 1987 (later sold to CI Financial) and a decade later, it acquired McLean Budden, a Canadian investment management company (later to become MFS).

International expansion continued into the 1990s. In 1995, Sun Life entered the Indonesian market through the local company PT Asuransi Modern Sun Life, now called PT Sun Life Indonesia, and opened a representative office in Beijing in preparation for entering China. A year later, Sun Life opened a service center in Waterford, Ireland, to provide technology and business processing support for Sun Life's business units. In 2008, Sun Life sold its 37% stake in the CI Financial Income Fund to Scotiabank.

Sun Life had originally acquired a significant ownership interest in the company through the sale of its Canadian mutual fund subsidiaries to CI Financial in 2002. [fifteen] In 1979 the company acquired property at University Avenue and King Street in downtown Toronto and built a new office complex, Sun Life Centre, which was completed in 1984. [12] In 1999, Sun Life officially returned to India and China when it established two joint ventures: Birla Sun Life in India with local partner Aditya Birla Group, and Sun Life Everbright in China with partner China Everbright Group. Over the next decade, both operations grew rapidly: by September 2008, there were 132,460 Birla Sun Life advisers working in 600 branches across India, while Sun Life Everbright opened its sixth branch in Guangzhou, bringing its presence to 18 cities across India.

China . In 2002, Sun Life combined its operations with Clarica Life Insurance of Waterloo, Ontario. Founded in 1870 as Mutual Life of Canada, Clarica was known as The Mutual Group before going public in 1999. Mutual Life Assurance Company's former headquarters at 227 King Street South in Waterloo became home to Sun Life's Canadian operations, while Sun Life's regional office and corporate headquarters remained in Toronto. The company also has regional offices in Montreal, Ottawa, Edmonton, Vancouver, Halifax, and Calgary. After integrating operations, the company used the Clarica brand for certain products and activities until 2007.

In early 1998, Sun Life announced its intention to demutualize. In March 2000, its initial public offering (IPO) began trading of Sun Life Financial Inc. shares on the Toronto (TSX), New York (NYSE), and Philippine (PSE) stock exchanges. Founded in 1865, its traditional core business throughout the world remains life insurance. However, it now also has significant asset management operations.

In 1919, it was the first Canadian company to offer group life insurance. Having started its first operations in the US. USA In 1895, the company sold its first group life plan in the US.

USA In 1924. There were several other key activities in the postwar years. This included Sun Life's decision to exit many markets, including China and India, due to economic and political changes. In 1962, Sun Life became a mutual and bought back its shares for a total of $65 million.

In 1973, Sun Life opened its new US subsidiary headquarters in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, located outside of Boston. [citation needed]

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