Brian Canty gets a Rocky Mountain ride on the ultimate road trip with his father in Colorado — where the mountains are high along with the people.

Wildfires moved in on some of Colorado’s most popular summer tourist destinations over the weekend, demolishing nearly two dozen homes near Rocky Mountain National Park and emptying hotels and campsites.

An exhaust centre shop owner who deliberately damaged buildings as he tore through town in an armoured bulldozer has been surrounded by officers determined to extricate him from the vehicle.

A businessman involved in a planning row barricaded himself inside a metal-fortified bulldozer and went on a rampage through a Colorado mountain town, firing gunshots and knocking down buildings.