May/June 2011
EnCompass Magazine

• Features:
  • Trains and Hotels
    Combine a ride on one of four historic narrow-gauge rails with a night’s stay at a nearby historic hotel, and you’ve got a journey into the past that you’ll never forget.
    By Shelly Steig.
  • Utah’s forgotten park
    Capitol Reef is not the Beehive State’s most popular park, but you’ll enjoy the quiet escape into a land of unique beauty and frontier history.
    By Dan Leeth.
  • Cape Light
    My chance encounter with a book inspired me 30 years later to visit a seashore with magical light like no other.
    By Eric Lindberg.
  • Catch the charm
    Elizabeth Taylor helped make Puerto Vallarta a Hollywood sensation. But even with a few new upgrades since then, this old-school resort town retains its simple pleasures— white sand beaches and grilled mahi mahi.
    By Michael DeFreitas.
  • Colorado Explorer
    Four Diamond dining, two-wheeled adventures, and custom kayaks.
    By Linda DuVal.
  • My Colorado
    Special Colorado memories by our readers. This issue: “The awesome power of water”
    By Peggy Donovan.
  • Photo contest
    This issue’s winner: Chautauqua Park, Boulder.
    By Jeff Bratcher.
  
  
  • Web Extra:
    • Wonder View Tower
      The World’s Wonder View Tower—a rambling, 20-room cavern that housed a gas station, restaurant, motel and dance hall on Colorado’s eastern plains.
      By Debi Boucher.
    
    
    • Departments
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        • President's Message
          Law enforcement’s view from above
          By Tony DeNovellis.
        
        
        • Member Feedback
          
          • Theft is no ‘joy ride’
          • Good citizen
          • Your Roadside Assistance stories
        • Safe Roads
          
          • Share the road
        • Travel Talk
          
          • Colorado’s One Diamond GEMs
          • Agri-Tourism: It grows on you
          • Old Town Museum, Burlington
        • AutoTalk
          
          • Smoke signals
        • Insurance Talk
          
          • Home inventory
        • Know AAA
          
          • Two moves for AAA Colorado offices
          • Flood Insurance
          • 3 new savings opportunities
          • Student Auto Skills
          • AAA’s top picks for new vehicle technology
          • Your Roadside Assistance Benefits