A high-resolution star-filled observing field photographed by AstroTours.org, used for the Eastern and Southeast Plains region.
Trail guide/Regions + places/Eastern & Southeast Plains

BOULDER → NORTHEAST PLAINS / SOUTHEAST BRANCH / GUIDED BRANCH

Let someone show you the sky in Eastern & Southeast Plains.

Use Boulder / Front Range as the launch if it fits your trip, then let Fort Morgan northeast / Pueblo southeast become the practical base once you are in the region. These are the hosted nights connected to that road.

PHOTO / ASTROTOURS.ORG ↗

Getting into the region

For Route 4, start in Boulder and stay in northeast Colorado: Jackson Lake, Pawnee National Grassland and then Madison-Macdonald Observatory in Fort Collins. The southeast plains around John Martin Reservoir, Kim and Comanche National Grassland remain in this regional guide, but they are not part of that road trip.

No other dependable guided night is on this branch yet. That may simply mean the calendar is quiet or the program has not posted its next date.

Build a self-guided night instead ↗

Check once more before the drive

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Programs change faster than landscapes. Open the organizer link on the event page for the current date, weather call and booking details.

NIGHT RIDE / NEXT EXITS

Where do you want to go next?

Take a turn you have not tried yet. Follow the road into a new place, a new kind of night or something worth knowing before the next stop.

COSMIC ROULETTE / RANDOM GUIDE SIGNAL

Can't decide? Let the stars guide you.

Click once and the guide will race through the places on the statewide map, lock onto one at random, then open that place page.

SIGNALAWAITING STAR SIGNAL