Wild West Activities for your Family Vacation in Breckenridge, CO Area

Most families vacationing in Colorado’s Breckenridge area during the summer are looking for ways to keep the kids entertained, and while they will certainly enjoy hiking, gondola rides, fishing, biking and rafting, no family vacation in Colorado would be complete without a daytrip to Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park.  So get the kids up early and leave your cozy cabin retreat for a day of Wild West adventure!

Just an 80 mile spectacular-scenery drive west of Summit County Colorado, Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park offers a lot of fun activities for the whole family, including thrill rides, gemstone mining, cave tours, bungee trampolines, tram rides and a mechanical bull! 

Parents and kids enjoy the European state-of-the-art gondola that takes visitors for a 7-minute, 4,300 foot long ride to the park, with panoramic views of the Rocky Mountains all the way. When the tram reaches the top of Iron Mountain, visitors are ready to enter Historic Fairy Caves, one of the leading family cave tours in the country.  Tours include a 70-minute guided walking tour, an extreme 3-hour guided “on your belly” tour that takes visitors to the depths of the caverns, and a 90-minute guided Adventure Tour.

Upon reaching the sunlight and warmer temperatures at the tour’s end, many families take a ride on the Canyon Flyer, an incredible alpine coaster with tracks that race through trees and hurdle down the mountainside. Guest can ride alone or in pairs.

Next, families enjoy a narrated ride on the Wild West Adventure Wagon as they travel back to the days of the Colorado cowboys along a bumpy trail. 

There are many ways to enjoy the fun and "Wild West" activities at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park.  Don’t forget to enjoy a meal at one of their mountaintop restaurants and stop at the souvenir shop before you head back to your cozy vacation cabin in Colorado near Breckenridge.