BUENA VISTA, COLORADO! (Colorado Mountain Scenery) - April 2004
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Updated March 2010: These photos were from a visit in 2004 when I lived in Manitou Springs
(and before I moved to Buena Vista in October 2005).
Below are the original photos and captions. -Steve
Buena Vista, Colorado! From
Colorado Springs travel west on
Highway 24 for about 90 miles. |
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The views looking west, as you come
down Trout Creek Pass
into the Arkansas River Valley:
1) Mount Princeton
2) Mount Antero (left) & Mount Princeton
3) Zoom-in on Mount Princeton
4) From an overlook. (Johnson Village in foreground.)
5) Inside Johnson Village |
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Zoom-in of Mount Antero. |
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Mount Yale. |
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Mount Columbia. |
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Mt. Yale and Mt. Columbia. |
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I didn't take many pictures inside the town of Buena Vista,
except for this old building in downtown. |
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I went on a short hike,
the Barbara Whipple Trail on the eastern end of the town. |
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That's the Arkansas River as a young toddler. (Picture quality is poor.) |
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The terrain is fairly desert-like, with lots of
rocks and spikey plants like this yucca. |
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Chaffee County Road 304 is actually the old railroad grade
for the Colorado & Midland Railroad. An old photo of Midland Tresle,
which no longer stands, but is in the vicinity. |
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Most of the eye-catching views are to the west,
but the east has some interesting mountains & rock structures as well. |
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Another shot of Mount Princeton with Buena Vista in the foreground. |
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One extra shot of Mount Columbia. |
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All my content from this region:
Cottonwood Pass
Independence Pass
My Visit to St. Elmo
St. Elmo Ghost Town
Sugarloaf Mountain
Limestone Ridge
Cottonwood Lake
That's the lunch I had at Casa Del Sol
Mexican restaurant. ;)
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