Airports in each city provide easy travel to any place in the nation. Local restaurants, night spots, movies, and shopping centers offer plenty to do during off-duty time. Denver, the metropolitan city of the Rocky Mountain region, is the center for major league sports, cultural expositions, and various types of entertainment. Denver is the access city to many Colorado ski resorts such as Vail, Aspen, Keystone, Breckenridge, Monarch Pass and Copper Mountain. Many students arrange their own weekend ski trips or go with base-organized weekend trips.
Scenic areas abound throughout the city and the mountain foothills.
Colorado Springs, with a population of over 300,000, is also the home of the famous Broadmoor Hotel and the site of the Olympic Training Center which attracts athletes from throughout the country.