My favorite place in the summer is 100% Aspen. We have been coming here for four summers and it just gets better and better every year. Each year there is better shopping, restaurants and people watching! Yes the restaurants and shopping are incredible- but what I love most is that it’s a walking town. You really don’t need a car unless you go to hikes that are further out like Cathedral Lake or American Lake. If you want to stay local for hikes try Hunters + Smugglers and if you like steep hikes do the Ute.
Aspen is the type of place you can get 20,000 + steps a day and not even know how much you are walking. It’s incredibly family friendly- there is a great park in town next to a huge field that we go to every single day! There’s also another park called Herron Park which has a creek that at all hours of the day families are walking through it.
We go to Paradise bakery at least once per day- they have these tiny little bite size muffins and bite size cookies and the best lattes, ice cream and iced teas in town! There’s always a line out of the door but worth the wait it goes by super quick.
If you feel like wearing workout clothes all day- go for it- you don’t even have to dress up for the fanciest restaurants in town if you don’t want to. Of course- any excuse I get to dress up I do! LOL! Speaking of restaurants we have loved 316- a steakhouse, Matsuhisa- sushi, Clarks easy American, La Chola- mexican, and Aqualina- Italian. We thought Cache Cache was way too overpriced. For drinks the courtyard at the Jermone Hotel is great or the Bear Den for live music on the weekends.
xo
Jenny
