Since my first trip out to Colorado, I have been all over the state. I came home and told my brother about it, showed him some pictures and he wanted to go so badly. In January of 2019 I finally took him for 4 days to explore Durango and the surrounding areas. Here’s everything we…
Category: Colorado
Rocky Mountain National Park | Lake Irene
I went to Rocky Mountain National Park on a long solo road trip through Colorado in the summer of 2018 and had an absolute blast. The Rockies have been a destination for me for a long time and to finally be able to cruise through them was quite amazing! I checked out a lot of…
Rocky Mountain National Park | Holzwarth Historic Site
I checked out this cool spot in Rocky Mountain National Park on a road trip, and it was pretty cool to see the first people who lived inside there. It is closer to the south end of the park, and is only a short walk in if I am remembering correctly. There is a parking…
Gold King Basin Party, Telluride | Colorado
I went to Colorado in the last few weeks of summer on a whim. I had no clue what I was getting myself into and didn’t know it would be such an amazing trip. I was planning for weeks before hand to road trip to Oregon, but I never was really feeling it inside. I…
Twisted Pine Brewing CO. | Boulder, Colorado
During my road trip through Colorado, I had stopped in Fort Collins after leaving the Red Feather Lakes area and headed for a coffee shop to get some coffee and wifi to figure out my day and where I was going to go. I was determined to stop at a few breweries while I was…
Camping Cascade Creek | Colorado
I drove straight to Colorado after working a long night shift the night before. Got off work and headed straight home to get finished packing and get ready for my road trip through Colorado. I drove straight for Durango and the sun was setting so I decided to work on finding a campsite since I…
A Perfect Night in Ouray, Colorado
I was right in the middle of my 7 day road trip, and I had just finished up in Arches National Park and drove from Utah to Colorado. It was in the middle of June so most of the snow on the Colorado mountains had all melted and filled up all the rivers and streams,…
Old Hundred Gold Mine
Mining operations are always exciting! During a trip to Colorado I was cruising through a mountain pass near Galena Mountain near Silverton, Colorado and found the Old Hundred Gold Mine. I took a drive down the main street through the town of Silverton following the Animas river and just wanted to see where it went….