Yurts- Imagine sitting with friends inside a backcountry yurt as snow falls outside your circular tent, drifting lazily past windows rimmed with frost from the cold outside your warm canvas walls. Or, waking to a warm summer morning inside your yurt as a cool summer's breeze flows gently through your yurt's large screen windows. Yurts, reminiscent of tents used by nomads on the steppes of Mongolia and Siberia, are round tents on a wooden frame with circular skylights and windows to provide illumination.

Colorado State Parks offers a variety of yurts designed to accommodate the casual camper or backcountry traveler. Yurts are available year-round at select sites.

Information provided by the Colorado State Parks.