All the cities suck, the mt towns are fine to look at but expensive to drink in and always full of people. Same for most of the state parks, except for the drinking. The sweet spot is somewhere around grand junction where there are still good mountains but less people. I find the people in the state rude and invasive but probably just because there are so many of them anywhere within 2 hrs or so of Denver. I’m also not a Midwesterner so it could just be a cultural thing.