Category: Highways
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Drive from Colorado Springs to Oakley, Kansas
September 9, 2022 It was a nice drive on 94 and 40 from Colorado Springs to Oakley, Kansas. It was pretty flat and very dry as we made the turn onto 40. 94 was a bit rough and narrow, but still tractor-trailers were making time at 65 mph. We missed the turn at Kit Carson…
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Golden Throne Trail, Capitol Reef National Park
July 8, 2022 at 7:51 PM In Capitol Reef National Park, Karen and I got up at 6:00 to hike the Golden Throne hike at the end of the Scenic Drive, then down a gravel road to a parking lot in Capitol Gorge. I had some big concerns, too many to list, but I knew…
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Driving Rt. 93 and 26 to Jackson, Wyoming and Through Grand Teton National Park
Thursday, July 23, 2020 Yesterday’s drive from our take-out at Cache Bar to 93, through Salmon to Challis follows the Salmon River, and it is gorgeous. It makes you want to float the whole river. 93 from Challis You would turn on 75 to continue following it, as I drove it north from Stanley before…
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Walking Pleasant Creek Road in Capital Reef National Park
Saturday, July11, 2020 There is only one rational time to hike in Utah in July, and that is early. I slept in this morning until 6:30, made coffee, grabbed two Cliff bars and the cameras and took off. It’s an hour drive to the end of The Scenic Drive, where I had decided to walk…
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Cathedral Valley, Capital Reef National Park
July 9, 2020 50 degrees in the morning. 92 degrees in afternoon, sunny all day At 6:00 AM I drove The Scenic Drive to take pictures. I stopped for coffee at a place whose name I can’t remember not, but It’s east of the Phillips 66 station, and they have meat pies. I was too early…
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Lakeview to The Columbia River on 101
Wednesday, August 16, 2017 I had about 5 1/2 hours to get to River’s End Campground across the Columbia River. Three days would have been better. At first I was in the mode of hitting the road and making time, but the road is more windy, up and down with one gorgeous overlook after another.…