Weird outdoor & roadside things to do in Fort Collins
Looking for weird outdoor & roadside oddities in Fort Collins? These 5 are the genuinely strange ones — Carpenter Ranch (The Nature Conservancy), Sulphur Cave at Howelsen Hill, Sunpie's Bistro and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Fort Collins they'd never find on their own.
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Carpenter Ranch (The Nature Conservancy)
The Nature Conservancy bought this 906-acre spread in 1996 and kept the cattle — hay crews still cut the fiel…
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Sulphur Cave at Howelsen Hill
The town ski hill has a cave that can kill you in two breaths. Sulphur Cave drops about fifteen feet into tra…
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Sunpie's Bistro
Two New Orleans transplants opened this Yampa Street dive in 2005, named it for zydeco great Sunpie Barnes, a…
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Deadman Fire Lookout Tower
Built by Civilian Conservation Corps crews in 1937–38 and replaced with the current 55-foot steel tower in 19…
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Owl Canyon Gliderport
About 15 miles north of Fort Collins on 256 acres of high-plains prairie, the Colorado Soaring Association's…