Trail Report: Colorado Mines - Archive

[mkjeepers]

[COLOR="Blue"]A couple of years ago the boys and I took a trip up to Silverton Colorado the explore the area. Silverton and Ouray were some of the biggest and prosperous mining areas in the country.

We went mainly to explore the mountainous area trails, but the mine sites were so numerious that you couldn't help but check them out also.

So to completly drive Mitch crazy I thought I would post them at this time.

Merry Christmas

Link to Slideshows

http://s304.photobucket.com/albums/n...view=slideshow


http://s304.photobucket.com/albums/n...view=slideshow

http://s304.photobucket.com/albums/n...view=slideshow

Misc pix of the area. Just a few of the 1500.

http://s304.photobucket.com/albums/n...view=slideshow
MK[/COLOR]

[COLOR="blue"]A few mine sites[/COLOR]

[GP4Play]

Awsome pic's,what a country we live in.Thank you for sharing these

[inVERt'D]

Wow--that is amazing and beautiful country! Great pics too! Thanks!

[mkjeepers]

[COLOR="Blue"]If anyone wanted to take an awesome vacation this would be a great place. We stayed in Ouray, then took most of the BLM roads through the historic mining camps. Most all the roads are easily done with a stock SUV. I drove our stock Liberty 4x4 w/o any problems on the trails.

If you wanted to save money on a trip to the Alps this would be the next best thing.

mk[/COLOR]

[Mitch]

Mike,

2007? Wow, thats when I got my Jeep and starting wheeling around. Nice pictures. Is it just mountains or are there cool desert areas in Colorado? LMAO!!!!!

Mitch

[mkjeepers]

Mike,

2007? Wow, thats when I got my Jeep and starting wheeling around. Nice pictures. Is it just mountains or are there cool desert areas in Colorado? LMAO!!!!!

Mitch

[COLOR="Blue"]I'm not sure if Colorado has any deserts or not. It was just getting daylight when we came into Durango.

It was accually Sept 2008 when we were there.
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[Guest]

Awsome pics! Post card pics there.

[FishPOET]

http://www.mhjc.org/all4fun.htm

All 4 Fun will be in the Silverton area in August 2010.

[jpflat2a]

Nice pictures
I see the Buffalo Boy tram station in there; it's also in the clouds; rained like crazy they day we were there in 2006; I loved driving the road to that site.

[mkjeepers]

[COLOR="Blue"]It usually rains weekly in the San Juans during the summer. And in mid Sept the flowers are in bloom and most of the snow is melted off.[/COLOR]

[Ol Man]

We were there for nine days this past August. We stayed at the RV park in Silverton. What an awesome time.

[headhunter]

Mike,

Those slideshows rocked!

This is high on my list of places to go.

Christian

[karstic]

I've been to the San Juans twice and they are incredible.







Mitch might not like the shelf roads though.

[mkjeepers]

[COLOR="Blue"]I didn't even like the shelfroads.[/COLOR]