Accommodations

1. Accommodation Search Engine (search over 150,000 hotels, motels, inns, Bed and Breakfasts and holiday rental properties)
2. Hostels.com
3. Hotels.com - (compare rates for hotel reservations)
4. Hotwire.com (compare prices for hotels, flights, car rentals, criuses, vacation packages)
5. Orbitz (compare prices for flights, hotels, cruises, car rentals, vacation packages)
6. Travelocity (compare prices for flights, hotels, cruises, car rentals, vacation packages)

Air Travel

1. Colorado Springs Airport
2. Denver International Airport
3. Flight Arrivals (arrivals, departures, and delays for commercial airline flights over the U.S. and Canada)
4. FlyteComm (search by flight number or airport to see a plane's speed, altitude, arrival time, flight status, location and weather conditions)
5. iFly.com - airport guides: services, amenities, shops, stores, security wait times, terminal maps, etc.
6. One Bag (how to travel anywhere with a single carry-on-sized bag)
7. Permitted & Prohibited Items (for airline travelers from the TSA)
8. Seat Guru (tells which airline seats are quiet, have leg room, recline, etc.)
9. Tollfree and International Phone Numbers for Airlines (also provides website links to most commercial airlines)

Colorado Travel

1. Camping & Hiking in Bear Country (from the Colorado Division of Wildlife - includes information about local bears, as well as tips on how not to attract bears to your campsite, and what to do if you encounter a bear)
2. Colorado - Travel and Tourism (cities, attractions, accommodations, dining, shopping, recreation, maps, etc.)
3. Colorado Outdoor Recreation Websites (public lands, organizations, activities, reservations, etc.)
4. Colorado Springs - Trails, Open Space, Parks and Recreational Areas
5. Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau
6. Colorado Springs Downtown Historic Walking Tour
7. Colorado Springs Traffic Cameras (click on camera icon to receive real-time photo of traffic conditions)
8. Colorado State Parks (general information, reservations, programs, etc.)
9. Colorado's Scenic and Historic Byways
10. Current Conditions (on Colorado's highways; from Colorado Dept. of Transportation)
11. Fall Colors (current reports, photos, chemistry from the National Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region)
12. Front Range Express (FREX) - commuter service from Fountain, Colorado Springs, Monument, Castle Rock and Denver
13. Metro - Mountain Metropolitan Transit (formerly Springs Transit) - bus schedules, routes, fares
14. National Park Service (information on national parks and monuments)
15. Pikes Peak - America's Mountain (information, recreation, wildlife, geography, history, map)
16. Pikes Peak Country (attractions, coupons, history, maps, events, prices, schedules)
17. Pikes Peak RTA (road construction, maintenance, + transportation projects)
18. Real-Time Colorado Road and Weather Conditions
19. Rush to the Gold (reports on current conditions for fall foliage in Colorado state parks)
20. Your Complete Fall Foliage Guide (scenic Colorado drives, sorted by region)

Disabilities

1. Able to Travel - making travel easy for individuals with disabilitites
2. Accessible Journeys (wheelchair accessible group tours and cruises)
3. Columbine Pass (discounted pass to all 42 Colorado state parks for disabled Colorado residents)
4. GORP Outdoor Resources for People with Disabilities
5. Travelers with Disabilites and Medical Conditions (from the Transportation Security Administration)
6. Travelers with Disabilities and Medical Conditions (information from the Transportation Security Administration)
7. Trips, Inc. Special Adventures (vacations for adults with developmental disabilities)

Diseases / Disorders

1. Travelers' Health (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)

Health

1. Swine Flu and Travel (from Web MD)
2. Travelers' Health (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
3. WHO (World Health Organization) (offers health information about countries who are members of the United Nations)

Online Travel Reservations

1. Cruisemates.com
2. Expedia Travel Network (compare prices for flights, hotels, cruises, car rentals, vacation packages)
3. Frommer's.com (guide books, tours, travel packages and deals, cruises, etc.)
4. History Channel Traveler
5. Hotels.com - (compare rates for hotel reservations)
6. Hotwire.com (compare prices for hotels, flights, car rentals, criuses, vacation packages)
7. Orbitz (compare prices for flights, hotels, cruises, car rentals, vacation packages)
8. Rentalcars.com
9. Travel Channel (world's best, travel news, book a trip, flights, cars, hotels, cruises, adventure travel, destination guides)
10. Travelocity (compare prices for flights, hotels, cruises, car rentals, vacation packages)
11. Yahoo! Travel

Outdoor & Adventure Travel

1. Geocaching - The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site
2. Go Camping America
3. Go RVing
4. iExplore (in association with National Geographic - adventure travel site)
5. National Scenic Byways Program
6. Outdoor Vacations (GORP)

Parks

1. Colorado Springs - Trails, Open Space, Parks and Recreational Areas
2. Colorado State Parks (general information, reservations, programs, etc.)
3. National Parks (information on national parks and monuments)
4. National Parks, Monuments, Recreation Areas, Historic Sites and Trails in Colorado

Rail Travel / Bus Travel

1. Amtrak
2. Eurail (European railway - select passes, view timetables and maps, etc.)
3. Front Range Express (FREX) - commuter service from Fountain, Colorado Springs, Monument, Castle Rock and Denver
4. Greyhound
5. Metro - Mountain Metropolitan Transit (formerly Springs Transit) - bus schedules, routes, fares

Senior Citizens

1. Elderhostel (educational and travel organization for adults 55 and over)
2. Senior Travel (from About.com)
3. Travel and Recreation for Seniors (from USA.gov - includes discounts on Amtrack and national park services, travel tips, etc.)

Students

1. Hostels.com
2. Let's Go (guides and tips for young and budget-savvy travelers)
3. STA Travel - Discount Student Travel
4. Worldwide Classroom - Consortium for International Education & Multicultural Studies

Travel Guides

1. Fodor's Travel Guides
2. Frommer's.com (guide books, tours, travel packages and deals, cruises, etc.)
3. Let's Go (guides and tips for young and budget-savvy travelers)
4. Lonely Planet Guides (travel guides)
5. Rick Steve's Europe
6. Travel & Adventure Guide (from How Stuff Works)
7. Travel Channel Destination Guides

Travel Tools

1. CouchSurfing (worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the local communities they visit)
2. Fodor's Living Language (useful phrases in French, German, Italian and Spanish for tourists and travelers)
3. How far is it? (calculate distance between 2 places in the world)
4. Language Learning Library (learn grammar, common phrases, numbers, time, and more in Spanish, French, Italian, Portugese, German, Chinese, Japanese, or Russian)
5. Legends of America - a Travel Site for the Nostalgic and Historic Minded
6. Literary Traveler (articles on authors and the locations that influenced their lives and works)
7. Local Times Around the World
8. Mapquest (maps, driving directions and distances, road trip planner)
9. Maps and Driving Directions from Yahoo!
10. Oanda Currency Converter (multilingual currency converter for 164 currencies)
11. Official U.S. Time
12. One Bag (how to travel anywhere with a single carry-on-sized bag)
13. Passport Services, Information, Applications, Renewals, Forms, etc. (U.S. Dept. of State)
14. Subway Maps (free subway maps - worldwide!)
15. Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory (websites and contact information for tourist offices worldwide)
16. U.S. Department of State Travel Warnings
17. Universal Currency Converter
18. Websites of U.S. Embassies, Consulates & Diplomatic Missions

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