Day 9 - Colorado City

It It was beautiful and sunny this morning so we enjoyed it to the max. The morning paper was delivered at our door. This is quite the campground. It was 9h30 before we got on the road.

We headed for Pueblo and then on to the Royal Gorge Bridge & Park. Built in 1929, the bridge spans the scenic Royal Gorge 1,053 ft above the Arkansas River. At 21$ a person, it is a bargain. We got to take an aerial tram across the Gorge, walk by a wildlife nature park which had buffaloes, mule deer and bighorn sheep. We walked thru a replica of a small western town, walked across the bridge, and took an incline railway which gave us a chance to go down to the bottom of the Gorge and watch rafters go by. Being early in the season, we enjoyed the sites without any crowds at all. A real pleasure. Ross drove the Roadtrek across the bridge to find the gate closed on the far side and crossed back again with the rumble of the wooden planked floor.

By 3 pm we were off again driving along Bighorn Sheep Canyon alongside the Arkansas River .. "this would be a fun drive in the Corvette" Ross said. Then around the bend, we started to see snow-capped mountains and pretty soon there were a whole series of them, just beautiful. I took loads of photos. Drove thru the town of Silver Cliff. A very beautiful area with lots of chalet-style homes. We saw a ski area on one of the mountains.

We reached over 9,311 feet in the San Isabel National Forest and then it started to snow and the temperature went down to 1.5 degrees C. It must have snowed quite a bit earlier in the day as the ground was quite white and there was more snow by the roadside. Luckily the road was good and we made it to our campground at Colorado City just before 6 pm.

It was another one of these great days of discovery. More to come....