Think of mushroom foraging as hiking with purpose. “We get into these beautiful spaces, we hike miles and miles, and we’re on the hunt,” says Glenwood Springs–based forager Kristen Blizzard. “We get rewarded for it with these incredible, flavorful mushrooms.”
When it comes to finding the toadstools, Colorado’s Rocky Mountains are right up there with the Alps and the Himalayas as prime mushroom habitat. The fungi thrive at high elevations in cool, dense forests. They also mostly grow with living trees here in the Centennial State, so having healthy, thriving forests is critical.