South Central COLORADO

My daughter and I made a road trip to Colorado in Apr/May 2000. We were on the road for about 8 days. We did a loop from Colorado Springs down the Sangre De Cristo Mts to Great Sand Dunes National Monument. Then up to Lake City and the Guniston area and back to Colo Springs.

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1,2. Mt Blanca, 14,345 ft. Shot from Garland, CO.
3,4,5. Great Sand Dunes National Monument.
6,7,8. Black Canyon of the Guniston National Park. America's newest National Park. DEEP.
9,10. The mountains and the road leading to Hermit Pass over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
11. Abandoned one-room school house near the town of Rush, on SR 94 in eastern Colorado.
12. Sunset over the plains near Rush, CO.
13,14. Taken near Lake City in central CO.
15,16. We tried to cross Medano Pass, 12500+ ft.   #16 shows the steep grade and the snow that put a stop to our attempt. We gave up and drove around the Sangre de Cristos and #15 shows where we would have come out if we had gotten over the pass.
17. The first real outhouse Mary had seen close-up, a two-holer.
18. Pikes Peak from Colorado Springs.
19,20. At Monarch Pass, 11,312 ft. Early May and it was snowing.
21. The bridge over Royal Gorge, longest suspension bridge in the world.
22. Looking down from the cablecar into Royal Gorge.
23,24,25. In the vicinity of Westcliffe, Co. I really like the weathered look of the highway in #24.

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