AI-powered trip planning that understands skill, season, permits, weather, and live fire restrictions — built by a team based in Salida, CO.
Colorado PeakPlan is a trip planner built specifically for Colorado. We assemble single-day and multi-day itineraries covering hiking, camping, fishing, road trips, hot springs, and 14ers — and surface the lesser-known routes, seasonal timing, and permits that generic travel apps routinely miss.
Every plan is a two-stage build tailored to your dates, skill level, and group: pick from 4–8 segment options, and PeakPlan assembles a day-by-day itinerary with drive times, safety notes, gear lists, dining (Pro), and GPX/KML + PDF downloadables.
PeakPlan is built for people planning 2–7 day Colorado trips — whether it's your first visit or your fifteenth.
Skill level, group ability, and acclimatization are baked in. PeakPlan surfaces trails, campsites, and activities that match your ability — not the same three default destinations every other planner recommends. Whether you've never camped in Colorado or you're still figuring out what "above treeline" actually means, the plan respects where you're starting from.
Already done RMNP and Maroon Bells? PeakPlan leans into underused spots — Arkansas Valley hot springs, North Clear Creek Falls near Creede, dispersed sites near Westcliffe, and the rest of the route network most visitors never see. The grid skips your "tried-that" list and picks up where you left off.
The same inputs that drive the generator drive the claims on /faq and /pricing — every plan we generate is built from these five sources, refreshed automatically.
You pick a baseline (beginner to expert) and the generator matches trails, elevation gains, distances, and campsites to your group's actual ability — including kids, dogs, and out-of-state visitors who haven't acclimated yet.
Fall (September–October) is the best window for most Colorado trips: crowds thin after Labor Day, aspen gold peaks mid-September, 14er season wraps late September, and permit pressure drops. Summer thunderstorm timing is the main gotcha — from late June through August, afternoon lightning builds daily, so plans front-load high-elevation activity and bring you below treeline before weather moves in.
Timed-entry parks (Rocky Mountain NP, Mount Blue Sky), overnight zones (Indian Peaks Wilderness), and iconic lottery draws (Maroon Bells, Hanging Lake) are surfaced with direct Recreation.gov booking links — and flagged when permits actually close out for your dates.
Forecasts come from the National Weather Service (api.weather.gov) — the same source avalanche.state.co.us and CoEmergency link to — with a 7-day gridpoint forecast for every segment of your trip and active alerts keyed by lat/lng.
Fire restrictions are pulled weekly from the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention & Control (DFPC) statewide page and USFS San Juan NF alerts — the same authoritative sources CoEmergency cites — and layered with CoEmergency county-level data so the bans shown in your plan match what's actually in effect for your route's counties.