Join Steamboat Springs photographer Jim Steinberg and naturalist Susan Tweit on a journey through many remote and less-traveled parts of Colorado. From the Eastern Plains to the remote Talamantes Valley in Northwest Colorado, this book looks at places that many people have never seen. With 148 beautiful, full color images, maps, driving directions and a lyric text, this is a book that every Coloradoan should own. According to Dean Singleton, publisher of The Denver Post, " Colorado's hidden beauty is also its most magnificent splendor. These roads less traveled portray a collective view of the real Colorado." The name Colorado brings to mind images of the Rocky Mountains, but the state has many other faces, from forbidding deserts to oceans of prairie to wide-open parks, Colorado Less Traveled journeys through the lesser known and less crowded, but no less awesome and beautiful parts of Colorado. This book is for the explorer inn each off us who wants to get away from it all, whether literally or simply through these pages.Photographer Jim Steinberg's tendency to take the roads others didn't has led to some of his finest photography and inspired this book, a celebration of Colorado's "other" landscapes. From Prairie grasses to foothills canyons, from snow-dusted peaks to painted badlands and desert rivers, these images reveal Colorado in its entirety, a state of captivating in its moods, landscapes, and diversity of life, both wild and human.Susan j. Tweit's lyric essays give voice to Jim's evocative photographs, telling the stories of the rocks, lichens, wildflowers, wildlife and people who inhabit these landscapes. Raised by naturalists and educated in science, she weaves history, ecology and geology to bring Colorado to life. Her words and Jim's photos together evoke a world we want to know.Open these pages and prepare to be dazzled by Colorado not often see or appreciated. Journey with us to less-traveled landscapes that will enlarge and enrich your view of this breathtaking state.

Jim Steinberg has been a professional photographer and Steamboat Springs resident for over thirty years. His passion for nature's beauty has led him to remote corners of Colorado and around the world. Steinberg's work has appeared in National Geographic, Backpacker, Life, Earth, Nature Conservancy, Scientific American, Nature's Best, Oxford Scientific, Discover, National Parks, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, Sierra Club and many others. Steinberg is represented by Photo Researchers and Animals,Animals/Earth Scenes. His work can be seen at www.portfoliopublicaions.com and www.AGPix.com, and at his gallery in Steamboat Springs.Susan J. Tweit is a plant ecologist who turned too writing when she fell in love with the stories behind the data. Her writing celebrates the relationship between people and the natural world that makes landscapes come alive. She's the author of nine books, including The San Luis Valley: Sand Dunes and Sandhill Cranes, as well as hundreds off newspaper columns, articles and essays for magazines from Audubon to Wilderness, and radio commentaries available on Pacifica Radio Network. She lives, writes and restores patches of urban wildness in Salida, Colorado.