Follow The Yellow Leaf Road
Posted on | September 29, 2008 at 10:11 pm | Comments Off
Another iPhone post, even though we’re back home. Still trying to get used to this damned keyboard. Anyway, after vacating the B&B this morning, N and I headed into Estes Park proper to do some shopping and lunch, though we ended up doing little of either. All those touristy shops are kind of fun, but they tend to all blur together after awhile.
At the suggestion of the B&B employees, we decided to take the scenic route home in order to view the Turning of the Leaves, which is at its peak right now. We took Highway 7 down to 72. The area on 72 north of Nederland had some of the most spectacular golden aspens I’ve ever seen. It’s hard to convey the grandeur of those yellow and green mottled hillsides. I’ve included an iPhone photo at the bottom, but you’re going to have to wait until I can get the pix from the digital camera into the computer and processed before you can get the full effect.
We then went through the world’s smallest traffic calming roundabout in Nederland to 119, and took that to Blackhawk. I had actually never been to Blackhawk since it became a casino town and was amazed at how… modern and casino-y it looked. Like one big mall. We didn’t stop to gamble and instead went down US 6 to home. By then, I was pretty drived-out. I’m glad we did the scenic route though – those views were dynamite.
Even with all the driving we did, including taking the long way home and the drive up Trail Ridge Road in RMNP, the entire Estes Park vacation consumed barely a half tank of gas in the Prius. Now that’s some cheap travelling!
Latre.
