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West Colorado Brewery Tours

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Photo by Henry Adams (CBG’s Dad)

Do you love craft beer?  Want to get out and see the beautiful state of Colorado?  Do you live along the Front Range and want to visit western Colorado breweries, but aren’t sure how to go about it?  For those who answered “Yes!” to these questions, I wrote a series of Colorado Brewery Tours that maps out a route of 8 to 21 breweries you can easily visit over an extended-weekend trip.  I originally wrote them between 2021 and 2025 but have recently updated all of them to be accurate as of September of 2025.

These articles included

I also wrote a brief Eastern Colorado Tour article for the few breweries on Eastern plains of Colorado.

Denver is the starting point for each tour since the majority of those that read the Colorado Brewery List blog are from this metropolitan area.  However, you can adjust the maps quite easily to start your tour from another location.  Each day includes a Google Maps™ link for that day’s destinations.  These are a great springboard for planning your personal itinerary.

Most of the tours that I’ve designed are for a full three-day weekend.  This allows for full enjoyment of multiple breweries per day often with some time to spare for other activities.

While I did not include each brewery’s hours of operation, in many cases I start each day at the earliest opening brewery and finish it at the last to close.  Before your tour, be certain to double check that the breweries you want to visit will be open at the time of your visit because operating hours have a tendency to change depending on season, holiday, and anticipated traffic volume.

The best way to undertake these tours is to have a designated driver, who you should shower with praise, free meals, and gifts.  Regardless, I have designed these tours to usually include no more than three or four breweries before checking into your hotel and then walking to the rest of the locations where you and your designated driver can enjoy yourselves fully.

Having completed this set of articles, I compiled them together in this article to show the various maps and list of breweries on the tours.  It is my intention to update these maps and lists here as changes happen (but may not update the original articles as quickly).

If you have any updates on these breweries or suggestions on how to improve these tours, please contact us at Colorado Brewery List or message me on Facebook at Colorado Beer Geek.

Let’s go WEST!

 

Overall map of towns in Western CO Brewery Tours

 

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Southwest CO Tour article

17 breweries on a 4-day tour of Southwest CO (plus two additional spots west of Colorado Springs for the return trip)

Southwest Tour Map

Additional stops for return trip (not on map):

 

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South Central CO Tour article

15 breweries on 3-day tour of South-Central Colorado with the option to add 6 more breweries in the Pueblo area for a 4-day tour.

Pueblo Area Map

South Central Map

 

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San Juan Mountains Tour article

8 unique breweries (and an additional brewing location and a taproom) over two days in the Ouray & Telluride area.

San Juan Mountains Tour Map

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Central Western CO Tour article

11 breweries on a 3-day tour of Crested Butte, Paonia, Montrose, & Gunnison.

Note:  Due to the seasonal closing of the mountain passes on the preferred route, this map is a snapshot of the entire route (from Buena Vista) over those passes.  The article includes winter options for a different route.

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Grand Junction Area Tour article

13 breweries (and a couple taprooms) on a 3-day tour of Grand Junction area and the far west portion of I-70.

Grand Junction Area Brewery Tour Map

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Vail & Aspen Tour article

10 breweries (and an additional location and a couple taprooms) over 3 days in the Aspen & Vail Valleys (plus Leadville).

Vail & Aspen Tour Map

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Summit County Tour article

9 breweries (and 3 taprooms) over 2 days in Summit County ski country.

Summit County Tour Map

 

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Northwest CO Tour article

10 breweries over 3 days between Winter Park and Steamboat Springs and one in Meeker.

Northwest Tour Map

 

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North CO Foothills Tours article

Three separate single day tours in the North Colorado Foothills.  One is 5 breweries in Evergreen & along I-70, another is 6 breweries along Highway 119, and the third is 6 breweries in Estes Park and Lyons.

Evergreen & I-70 Tour Map

Highway 119 Tour Map

  Lyons & Estes Park Tour Map

 

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Eastern Colorado Tour article

3 breweries on the eastern plains of Colorado: 1 in Fort Morgan, 1 in Sterling, and 1 in Holyoke

Eastern Colorado Tour Map

 

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