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Million Dollar Highway

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Cut off at the pass

The views just seem to get better and better, but the drive is not a quick one.  One sharp curve follows another along the Million Dollar Highway, Route 550 between Durango and Ouray, Colorado.  Mentally as I drive Colorado’s mountain roads, the big push is to make the pass —…

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Scary Mountain Roads

Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park just opened for the season this past weekend.  This week, I reflected on my four seasons of working at the visitor center and a question I got many time from visitors.  Inevitably every day, some intrepid family from Texas or Iowa would approach the…

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