
Four Seasons Resort Vail
Vail, United States
Every flake that falls on Colorado chooses its ocean: on one side of the Continental Divide it will melt towards the Pacific, on the other towards the Atlantic. The Colorado River rises in a meadow of Rocky Mountain National Park, a stream one can step across. At Mesa Verde, the Ancestral Puebloans set whole villages beneath sandstone overhangs, walls of dressed stone and round towers included. Telluride fills the floor of a closed valley, its miners' houses of painted wood facing a waterfall. At Kebler Pass, in autumn, the aspens on one slope turn yellow all at once; they share the same roots.