Things we did in Aspen, CO

What should we do in Aspen during summer? A lot. In addition to summer activities, we did some hiking and visited ghost town.

Today, we plan to spend all day at Aspen.

We started the day with a hearty breakfast. They provided egg croissant, sausage, oatmeal, fruits, cereals, and choices of juice, coffee, tea and milk. The breakfast lady is so very friendly. When we arrived there, the sausage was only 3 left. And I asked her if she has more and she said it was already in the oven and she will bring it up for us.
She even offer to bring banana and eggs along as she knew we were planning on hiking.

We stopped by City Market (local grocery store) to get some lunch for a picnic. They have choices of prepared food. We decided to get sushi for lunch and they have a very good ocean sushi.

We went to Maroon Bell. It's the most photographed view in the area. After paying $10, you will get to a picnic place and hiking trail. Maroon bell trail is flat, unpaved trail circling maroon bell lake. You will see beaver dam and water falls towards the top of the trail. They even have benches where you can picnic and enjoying the view of the lake.

We hiked up to the water fall. On the way circling the waterfall, our 3 years old fell in to the lake. It was a scary experience in the first few seconds as I didn't see my daughter. She was shivering and crying. I decided to take her clothes off and wrap her in my fleece. God was watching over us.

Next stop, Ashcroft It was a mining city that got competition from Aspen and now a ghost town. The ticket is $3/ person to get in the ghost town. There are more visitors come to ghost town than its population.

Then we went to John Denver park in downtown Aspen, where we met Joe and Pistol the dog.

We had dinner at Boogie's Diner. The décor would remind you in the 60's. The food was not very impressive and they don't have kids' menu.

Then, we walk to down town Aspen. It was pretty nice and quiet while enjoying sunset. There's a corner ice cream shop we have to try. Next to Wagner park is a playground and public restroom. It's a great place to sit and enjoy the night while watching water fountain.