In which city should I book my hotel?

We want to visit Telluride, Aspen, Steamboat Springs, Pike’s Peak, Royal Gorge, Rocky Mountain National Park, and any other interesting locations. Is Colorado Springs a good central location for booking the hotel, or would you suggest another area? We’d like for our “home base” to be scenic but in a town large enough where we can easily find a restaurant for dinner.
Wow, thanks for the insight. As a Texas girl, I hadn’t even considered that the mountains (the entire purpose of the trip!) would impede my travel plans! LOL!! I looked up width and length (280 miles X 380 miles) and this is very doable–without considering the impeding mountains, of course! Thanks again for saving my trip!

Your plan is impractical if not impossible. The cities you list may appear close in the atlas, and may be close ‘as the crow flies’ but visiting some of these places as day trips from Colorado Springs would require upwards of 9 hours of driving.

Plan a circle trip where you stay in one or two of these mountain resorts a drive from one to the next sightseeing as you go.