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Garden of the Gods!!! Last vacation day

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 Wednesday October 1  Our last day was spent in Colorado Springs at a wonderful park called Garden of the God’s Park. It is a registered National Nature Landmark.  We spent most of our time out in the park, but the nature center looked like something to also spend time in…maybe next time.   It was established like this “  In 1909,   Charles Perkins ‘ children, knowing their father’s feeling for the Garden of the Gods, conveyed his four-hundred eighty acres to the City of Colorado Springs. It would be known forever as the Garden of the Gods “where it shall remain free to the public, where no intoxicating liquors shall be manufactured, sold, or dispensed, where no building or structure shall be erected except those necessary to properly care for, protect, and maintain the area as a public park.” We took a 5 mile hike and were excited to see these Rocky Mountain big horn sheep, just off of our hiking path.  That’s Pikes Peak you see in the background of t...
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Rocky Mountain National Park

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On Tuesday September 30, we headed to Rocky Mountain National Park.  But first we had to get there and the drive was beautiful with all the leaves changing.  The majority of the yellow leaves are the aspen tree.  And we were welcomed to the town - Grand Lake- with this double rainbow.  Next morning, we drove into the Rocky Mountain national park.   First, we saw meadows and evergreens and the aspens.   Then we took a short 1 mile hike around Lake Irene.  When we woke up it was 37 degrees so we were still bundled up.  It was pretty early so I kept my eye out for bears! (Spoiler, didn’t see any)  Next we headed up to the Alpine visitor center. It is the highest elevation point in the park that visitors can reach.  As you can see from the pictures, less and less trees, snow showing and barren tundra.  Bob didn’t want his picture taken - Again!  We are headed up to the top, because, why not.  The wind was whipping, but we made...
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Canyonlands National Park

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  Sunday September 28 -  Just outside of Moab UT and just a bit past Arches National Park is Canyonlands National Park.  Since we were here, of course we went to see it.  After walking so much yesterday, we did a lot more driving and short sightseeing today, but we did take one incredible hike along the top of one of the Canyons and watched a storm roll in.  Canyonlands is Utah’s largest national park and it covers nearly 340,000 acres of high desert.  The park has both the Colorado River and Green River.  It has spectacular deep canyons, mesas, arches and spires.  I hope I caught some of their essence.   We took a hike down Grand View Point Trail .  It is a 1.8 mile trail that follows the canyon rim. Laura and I were WAY out on the edge of the rock.   Yes , Bob is contemplating life again. (He was great on this trip) I did not get as close to the edge as Laura! Yikes.  But there were spectacular views all along the hike. ...
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