This book is a guide to experiencing the sights and activities of beautiful Aspen, Colorado. Aspen boasts touristy, and quaint, hotels among the coolest bars, shops, and restaurants at the base of Aspen Mountain, with its awesome ski slopes and hiking trails. Driving into Aspen is an three hour travel from Denver through some of the most beautiful mountain scenery that our country has to offer.
    Here you'll find everything, from ultra chic to funky laidback, to fancy, mainstream standards. All tastes are welcomed and catered to in this mountain paradise resort. Aspen consists of a small-sized mountain town with resort hotels and artsy and quaint shops and malls. It offers something for everyone, from an all-day hike to isolated, mountaintop vistas of the valley, with just one main road in and out.
    The natural beauty of the valley abounds, and with it, reverberations of nature's majesty. Chalets and homes spot the surrounding mountainsides. Aspen is a world-class destination in wintrer and summer alike. A small airport offers flyers a transfer from Denver and Salt Lake City.

ECOTOURISM   This book serves to promote the global policies of ecotourism. Ecotourism may be defined as travel to natural or cultural sites which informs the visitor, conserves the site, and benefits the local economy.

This Book Includes:
  A Beautiful tour of the features, activities, dining, nightlife, landmarks, and wildlife of Aspen.
  A guide to food, shopping, destinations, and the nightlife of Aspen.
  The cost of the book is $9.95 US. It is available by direct mail on CD or Flash Drive in Adobe PDF or Microsoft Word format (with additional shipping and handling charges).

About The Author:
The author has brought together his skills as a career graphic artist, photographer, and publications designer to produce comprehensive and useful travel and recreation guides with technical prowess. The author's passion and creative insight in discovering and experiencing nature, the environment, national and regional parks, and wildlife from the active reader's perspective should encourage enthusiasm and anticipation in the reader through his writing.
   Our natural and scenic wonders are to be "discovered and experienced by everyone", and his "what to see and what to do" writing style and format is born from the thirst to experience and discover the world around him.
   Over the years, Mark has operated as a patent draftsman, and contracted as a technical illustrator and book and magazine designer for the National Academy of Sciences. In 2003 Mark authored and published this first book, "Discovering the C&O Canal", the definitive resource and activities guide for one of our country's beloved National Historical Parks, located in Washington, D.C. and Maryland.