Sauce on the Blue, tucked away in an unassuming Silverthorne highway retail strip, is road-trip worthy. In fact, it’s just the place to spend a late-summer afternoon after shenanigans in the mountains.
On a recent record-nudging-hot Front Range Tuesday, my son and I ventured out with a friend and her golden doodle to the backside of the Gore Range, 18 miles north of Silverthorne, to hike Lower Cataract Lake. The narrow, two-mile alpine loop is an incredible wildflower-dotted visual treat—if you haven’t made it up there, put it on your short list before the cold weather sets in.