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MWJones
Dec 04, 2016Explorer
The Steam Powered train ride from Durango to Silverton is AWESOME!!!
You can train up and bus back or train up and back. Will take all day.
It would be an experience of a lifetime for your 15 yr old as well as you and the wife.
Stop at the Black Canyon on the way to Ouray. 145 to Delores is very scenic. Take 184/160 to Mesa Verde NP. 160 to Durango. DO THE TRAIN RIDE. 160 East thru Pagosa Springs, South Fork, Alamosa. 15 miles east on 160 turn North to the Great Sand Dunes NP. Back to 160 east to I 25 and home.
Have a great trip.
PS: Ask directions to Cottonwood Lake out of Buena Vista for great scenery and Trout fishing!!!!! Twin Lakes North of Buena Vista is good fishing at the Dam.
You can train up and bus back or train up and back. Will take all day.
It would be an experience of a lifetime for your 15 yr old as well as you and the wife.
Stop at the Black Canyon on the way to Ouray. 145 to Delores is very scenic. Take 184/160 to Mesa Verde NP. 160 to Durango. DO THE TRAIN RIDE. 160 East thru Pagosa Springs, South Fork, Alamosa. 15 miles east on 160 turn North to the Great Sand Dunes NP. Back to 160 east to I 25 and home.
Have a great trip.
PS: Ask directions to Cottonwood Lake out of Buena Vista for great scenery and Trout fishing!!!!! Twin Lakes North of Buena Vista is good fishing at the Dam.
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