I'll bite. What's scary? I looked it up on Wikipedia - Mormon farmers in the 1880s, then uranium miners in the 1950s.

I think Glenwood Springs is interesting for the baths and some of the hiking/climbing opportunities which range from easy to tougher than you are. The drive through Glenwood Canyon on I-70 is just amazing...you're in flat, boring countryside, then you drop down into something that looks like a Pixar film. I was just driving through but it looks like the downtown area South of I-70 has some things to look at.

I haven't done this yet, but some of the wineries in the Western Slope; and I understand the Yampa River as you get towards Utah in Dinosaur National Monument is amazing - river runs through canyons 1000' deep. Our son's pediatrician told us the only hotel in Dinosaur CO is one mobile home, cut into a few hotel rooms. The Yampa is the last undammed river of any size in the West.

http://www.cmc.org/AdventureTravel/A...x?EventID=2561

Yampa tour...you have to join the Colorado Mountaineering Club (which is a GREAT use of money, IMHO.)

http://www.groupon.com/deals/colorad...d650fe5961c025

This isn't exactly what you were looking for, but here's a brew tours Groupon.