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Colorado Outdoors Magazine

A one-year subscription is $13 and includes 6 issues as well as both a hunting guide and fishing guide. The guides are packed full of in-depth information for hunters and anglers. You can subscribe for yourself or purchase a gift subscription for a friend or family member online, or call 1-800-417-8986 to order over the phone.

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Colorado Outdoors Magazine

A one-year subscription is $13 and includes 6 issues as well as both a hunting guide and fishing guide. The guides are packed full of in-depth information for hunters and anglers. You can subscribe for yourself or purchase a gift subscription for a friend or family member online, or call 1-800-417-8986 to order over the phone.

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Official Magazine of Colorado Parks and Wildlife

Since 1938, Colorado Outdoors has been the official magazine of Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

Although the look of this historic publication has changed a lot over the last 86 years, one thing has always remained the same: Colorado Outdoors is the essential magazine to help you “Live Life Outside.”

Whether you’re a hunter, angler or just someone who loves Colorado’s wildlife and wild places, Colorado Outdoors features a wealth of how-to and where-to information to help you plan your next outdoor adventure. 

A Focus on Colorado

Each issue features Colorado’s top hunting and fishing destinations, along with expert tips to help you have greater success in the field. You’ll find stories of record fish caught and even taller tales of the ones that got away; of bull elk and echoing bugles; of backcountry hunts that epitomize the adventure and essence of fair chase;  and stories of wild game that will feed your imagination and the hungry mouths around your dinner table.

For big-game hunters, the Colorado Outdoors annual “Preference Point Guide” will lead you through Colorado’s limited-license drawing — setting you up for success before the hunting season begins. In the annual “State Parks” edition, you’ll find helpful tips to explore Colorado’s amazing State Parks, which are home to breathtaking scenery and limitless outdoor recreation. The most popular edition of the magazine, the “Photography Issue,” offers an intimate look at some of Colorado’s most unique and cherished wildlife species. From bighorn sheep and moose to birds and endangered species, you’ll get an extreme close-up as captured by the world’s best nature photographers.

Best of all, Colorado Outdoors magazine is your guide to all things Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Take a virtual journey with our team of dedicated law enforcement and wildlife professionals as they conserve and protect Colorado’s natural resources. From poaching cases to in-depth research projects and on-the-ground wildlife management, Colorado Outdoors will keep you in the know.

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Colorado Outdoors Photography Issue

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The 2024 Colorado Outdoors Photo Issue is here and brimming with stunning photos of Colorado's diverse wildlife, landscapes and recreation. Get your copy today!

2024 Colorado Outdoors Magazine Photo Issue

Within the Frame

A letter from the editor
By Wayne D. Lewis

If you look at Colorado on a map it’s boring, blah, meh — as close to a basic rectangle as you can get from something that’s formed on a sphere. As someone who has marketed the state for almost 40 years, I have longed for the iconic shape of a California, Florida or Utah that can instantly represent the state on a T-shirt. However, Colorado’s boundaries may be plain, but what’s inside them is anything but.

What are other rectangles that hold beauty? The photographs showcased in this issue of Colorado Outdoors. Within the state’s boundaries, Colorado Parks and Wildlife manages more than 960 species, 43 state parks and great swaths of state wildlife areas and state trust lands — all waiting to be captured by an adventurous photographer.

When I started The Photography Issue in 2007, I thought it would be a way to showcase the beautiful images that I saw throughout the year but would not normally have the opportunity to feature, while being an easy issue of the magazine to create at the end of the year. I was half right. Beautiful? Yes. Easy? Not even close.

Most people think this is a contest — it isn’t. Many think a committee of staff gets together in a room to go over all the submissions to select the photos — nope, it’s just me, with the occasional assistance from Mindy Blazer, Colorado Outdoors magazine Circulation Manager.

It gets tougher every year. For this issue, I looked through more than one thousand emails (some with one photo, many with 50) to do rounds and rounds of choosing images. The two broad-tailed hummingbird photos below show some of what I look for: One is a unique leucistic white, while the other shows an action many readers have most likely never seen.

I know deserving photographs get lost along the way (I fruitlessly spent most of a morning looking for a profile portrait of a rattlesnake that I vaguely remember seeing). Are these the best photographs that were submitted? No. Some aren’t even the best that an individual photographer sent in, but I would choose a quirky marmot over a majestic elk. If you are looking for inspiration, a photo of a mouse can be as epic as one of a moose.

If your photo wasn’t chosen this year, do not let that deter you from getting out to photograph some more — even the worst photo from a great experience still leaves you with the great experience. Colorado’s boundaries are basic, but the photographic opportunities are boundless.

Wayne D. Lewis
Editor and Art Director

Annual Guides

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Annual Hunting Guide

This special to Colorado Outdoors is loaded with great content including articles on hunting during rut, staying safe in the field, guided youth hunts, preparing for Colorado's temperature swings, hunting dusky grouse, and so much more!

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Annual Fishing Guide

In the issue: hunting with hawks, dog off leash parks, Colorado wetland makeovers, pond fishing and more!

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A one-year subscription is $13 and includes 6 issues as well as both a hunting guide and fishing guide. 

Featured Issues

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Annual State Parks Issue

Colorado's state parks: Four Seasons of Fun. Plus: backcountry reservoirs for trout fishing, the song of the marsh wren, three fascinating mouse species in Colorado, and more!

 Annual Photography Issue Cover

Annual Photography Issue

The 2024 Colorado Outdoors Photo Issue is here and brimming with stunning photos of Colorado's diverse wildlife, landscapes and recreation. Get your copy today!

 2024 Annual Preference Point Issue cover

2024 Annual Preference Point Issue

In the issue: Big-game preference points for planning your 2024 hunt, plus herd counts and much more!

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Purchase an Annual Subscription

A one-year subscription is $13 and includes 6 issues as well as both a hunting guide and fishing guide. The guides are packed full of in-depth information for hunters and anglers. You can subscribe for yourself or purchase a gift subscription for a friend or family member online, or call 1-800-417-8986 to order over the phone

Included with Annual Subscription

  • One-year subscription (six issues)

  • Annual Hunting Guide

  • Annual Fishing Guide

Manage your Subscription

Change your address and manage your subscription on the Colorado Outdoors Subscriber Services page, or call 1-800-417-8986.