after you take hunters ED, pm me with your questions. I live for hunting. It is a close call but I think about hunting almost as much as sex/women

Basically anywhere in the mountains with pine trees you can go for a walk and find a shit ton of squirrels. find an area that is national forest, google map the location from the parking spot/road you plan to enter from and check closely for homes/structures etc that could possibly be within range should the .22 get through the trees.

you can also look into grouse hunting (talk to them about it in hunters Ed). that would be another good start.

if you have a shotgun you can try bird hunting. waterfowl (ducks and geese) and upland (pheasants, quail, grouse, dove). There are a ton of opportunities. Also have them talk to you about state wildlife areas. there are lots of hunters typically but at least they are close and you can talk to others that can help you out.

Biggest this is to start studying the regulations now.
http://wildlife.state.co.us/RulesReg...gulations.aspx

that will give you a link to all the types of hunting you want to look at.
There are general laws that apply all the time, and then specific regulations that apply to each species, season, unit, etc. It can be confusing and it will be confusing but just ask here or call the CDOW and they will get you headed in the right direction.