getting to Arches/Canyonlands from Florida
We have pulled our 5200lb trailer with our V8 Trailblazer over 40,000 miles so far. Now we are going back west to hit what we missed. We have to choose to either go over Monarch Pass etc., or backtr...
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We intend to leave late March-early April from FL. My wife wants to go to the big bridge west of Canon City CO, which is why I said Pueblo. If we stuck with Rte 1 we'd go to Grand Junction then to Moab, and eventually north to Glacier NP(thru Tetons and Yellowstone). If we go Rte 2, we'd go thru Pagosa Springs, Durango, to Moab up 191, then on to Glacier. 550 goes thru 3 summits, so don't think we'd go that way.
We don't go to restaurants or shop. We are just into scenery and doable hiking (I'm 66 with 2 bad knees). So which route has the best scenery, wildlife, outdoors stuff? I looked at Curecanti and that just looked like a boat ramp, and if we go Rte 1, we planned on bypassing Curecanti and stay in Gunnison NP.
We don't go to restaurants or shop. We are just into scenery and doable hiking (I'm 66 with 2 bad knees). So which route has the best scenery, wildlife, outdoors stuff? I looked at Curecanti and that just looked like a boat ramp, and if we go Rte 1, we planned on bypassing Curecanti and stay in Gunnison NP.
