Beautiful view of the Rockies on our way out this morning.
Our first destination was to Silverton, which was an old mining town. To get there you first have to go over Red Mountain Pass which is 11,000 ft.
The road got a little hairy in a few spots, no guard rail and drops straight down into the gorge. But once we got through the 23 miles of twists and turns we made it to Silverton.
Still looks like an old western town.
Look close, that says 23 miles not 3 miles
This the view of the town after leaving and heading up the next mountain.
Beautiful waterfalls coming out of the mountain
After getting over that mountain we came into Durango and stopped to eat lunch. It is a very neat town. From there we made it to Mesa Verde National Park.
View driving up the mesa
I won't bore you with all the details, but these are the cliff dwellings that were built by the Pueblo Indians over 700 years ago.
Buddy going down into one of the dwellings and next two pics are after he got down there.
This one that we walked down to was the 3rd largest. It was called Spruce Tree House and was 216 feet long and 89 feet deep. It had 120 rooms in it.
This was the 2nd largest dwelling.
Didn't make it to the largest one, because it was getting late, plus it was a steep 1 mile walk to it and we didn't think our knees would make it. It was a great experience. As we were coming back down out of the park there was a rainstorm coming across below.
Tomorrow we will be leaving the amazing state of Colorado and heading into Utah and Arizona.
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