Ryan Spencer/Summit Daily News
This Memorial Day Weekend is shaping up to be a busy one for travel in Colorado — especially for the mountain resort region.
Nearly 44 million travelers nationwide are leaving town for the unofficial start of summer, an increase of 4% over travel this time last year, according to AAA. That is the second-highest Memorial Day travel forecast since AAA began tracking in 2000, the association’s Colorado spokesperson Skyler McKinley said.
“We’ve got very good news packed into these travel forecasts,” McKinley said. “Because, fundamentally, a traveling forecast is an economic forecast.”
Nationwide, road trips are expected to set a record, with AAA projecting 38.4 million people will travel by car over the…
