50 Best Country Songs About Colorado
Songs That Name-Check Colorado in Country Music
Colorado shows up in country songs the way an old friend crashes the back half of a road trip. Sometimes it’s the destination, sometimes it’s the reason someone left, sometimes it’s just a line that slips out like a memory nobody meant to share. And somehow, it always hits. There’s a weird kind of stillness packed into the name—like a place you picture in widescreen even if you’ve never set foot there. The lyrics don’t romanticize it cleanly. They lean into the sharp edges, the empty highways, the kind of air that makes you second-guess every decision you made on the way up.
It’s funny how often Colorado becomes the setting for unraveling. Someone’s driving through snow with a bruised ego. Someone else is halfway through a bottle blaming the elevation. The songs let it be all of that. Not pretty. Not tragic. Just stuck somewhere in between where things can’t be fixed and haven’t quite fallen apart either. You hear it in the voices—drawled out or cracked or flat-out angry—and it makes Colorado feel like the backdrop to a bunch of exits nobody really planned.
You can feel the leftovers of pop, rock, country, and R&B songs lingering behind some of these, but the twang hits different when it’s aimed at a place like this. These aren’t travel songs. They’re more like postcards scribbled in frustration or soft-spoken confessions taped to a rearview mirror. So if you’re in that weird headspace where you don’t need answers but want something that gets it, this list is probably where you’ll want to start. Here are the best country songs that mention Colorado.
Top 10 Colorado Songs
1. 'Rocky Mountain High'—John Denver
2. 'I Guess He'd Rather Be in Colorado'—John Denver
3. 'Colorado Girl'—Townes Van Zandt
4. 'Lucky Old Colorado'—Merle Haggard
5. 'Boulder to Birmingham'—Emmylou Harris
6. 'Colorado'—The Flying Burrito Brothers
7. 'Colorado Cool-Aid'—Johnny Paycheck
8. 'Goodbye in Telluride'—Dierks Bentley
9. 'Sun Sets in Colorado'—Dierks Bentley
10. 'Telluride'—Tim McGraw
More Colorado Country Tunes #11—20
11. 'Colorado'—Florida Georgia Line
12. 'A Mile High In Denver'—Jimmy Buffett
13. 'Colorado Christmas'—Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
14. 'Key West & Colorado'—Chase Rice
15. 'You Wild Colorado'—Johnny Cash
16. 'Colorado'—Linda Ronstadt
17. 'Happy Anywhere'—Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani
18. 'Colorado Bluebird Sky'—The String Cheese Incident
19. '40 Miles from Denver'—Yonder Mountain String Band
20. 'Colorado'—Railroad Earth
Colorado Music Selection #21—30
21. 'O.D.'d in Denver'—Hank Williams Jr.
22. 'Colorado'—Willie Sugarcapps
23. 'The Coast Of Colorado'—Skip Ewing
24. 'My Proud Mountains'—Townes Van Zandt
25. 'Gone to Denver'—Waylon Jennings
26. 'I've Got Colorado on My Mind'—The Railbenders
27. 'Colorado Song'—The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
28. 'Colorado'—The Infamous Stringdusters
29. 'I-70 Westbound'—The Railbenders
30. 'San Luis'—Gregory Alan Isakov
Country Songs about Colorado #31—40
31. 'Colorado'—Stephen Stills
32. 'Somewhere Maybe Colorado'—Austin Jenckes
33. 'Where The Colorado Flows'—Ray Wylie Hubbard
34. 'Telluride'—The Infamous Stringdusters
35. 'Long as the Colorado River Runs'—Jerry Jeff Walker
36. 'Crystal Colorado'—Michael Martin Murphey
37. 'Colorado'—Darrell Scott
38. 'Little Town Tour'—Chuck Pyle
39. 'Colorado'—Paper Bird
40. 'Rocky Mountain Way'—Joe Walsh
Colorado Tunes for a Scenic Drive #41—50
41. 'You Are My Sunshine'—Townes Van Zandt
42. 'Wildflowers'—Tom Petty
43. 'Going Back to Colorado'—Zephyr
44. 'Colorado Bound'—New Riders of the Purple Sage
45. 'Colorado Sunrise'—The Samples
46. 'Colorado'—Kenny Loggins
47. 'Colorado on My Mind'—Jackson Browne
48. 'Colorado Song'—Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
49. 'Denver'—Clem Snide
50. 'Telluride'—Solid Frog
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