Possibly traveling to Colorado next June.....looking for advice

Here's the short of it.....

I'm a RN and my wife and I (along with our son who will be 6 1/2 by then) will be doing travel nursing starting next June.   Essentially i can go anywhere i want to and work and live for 13 weeks at a time.

The one place we both have wanted to visit has been Colorado.   Everything we read says this is the place for us.   Not counting biking....we both love camping, hiking, and any outdoor activities.   

Now, what i'm curious about is where we might start researching to visit and potentially live for 3 months.   Hell, we are open to also looking into a permanent home away from here in Florida that we've both known all our lives essentially.  That is kinda the purpose behind travel nursing...to look for somewhere to live away from Florida.

So what we would like is somewhere that has an active biking, camping, hiking, outdoor activities community.   Somewhere VERY family friendly and oriented so we have a good place for our son.   We prefer to stay out of a big city...we want a more small town feel.   A hospital nearby is also a must as i have to have somewhere to work.

Last night we had a talk about looking for somewhere to visit this January so we could scope out a potential spot to travel to come June.   I know theres a huge Winter vs Summer list of activities and way of living.   But we both are open to trying it out.

So anyone got some places we can research and potentially consider to visit in January and perhaps even move to in June for a few months?    Smaller town/city thats active that we would enjoy?   I know theres someone out there that lives in a place like this.    Anyone?

Thanks ahead of time for the responses.