Where to go to see spring flowers.
My wife and I enjoy nature. Wildflowers are our favorite. Where is your favorite place to visit that has abundance of wildflowers? Example; we enjoy The Hill Country of Texas in April to see the Blu...
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You can't go wrong with the suggestions of Ken, 4runnerguy, and 2gypsies have given about western Colorado. We especially like the high meadow areas south of Ouray, on the highway to Silverton. During the ten years we lived in Ouray, this was our, go to spot when we had visitors. Depending on the snowpack, it can easily be late June or into July. Can't remember if it's Country Rd 17 or 25. actually is CR 31 (just looked it up, LOL) Anyway on the south end of the area known as Ironton Park, just north of the old Idarado Mine buildings, the CR takes off to the east and circles in behind the mine buildings. The other end comes out on the top of Red Mountain Pass. Great scenic drive with the abundant wild flowers being a bonus. Vegetation in this part of the world is very altitude dependent. Early spring look in the lower altitudes, later in the summer, go higher.
Here is a photo of the head shaft building, Yankee Girl Mine, on CR 31, the road goes around it to the left and on around the hill in the distance. A Montrose couple, bought the mining claim and then leased it to the Ouray County Historical Society for a very nominal fee for many years. Most excellent of them. The high meadow with all the flowers is just around the mountain. The meadow is about 10,000 ft in elevation, so all you flatlanders like me, take it easy on the exorcise till you get use to the thin air and to me, no oxygen. LOL My wife does fine but she grew up in Woodland Park, CO and the Spring area
A number of good guide books available in any west slope bookstore, be it Ouray, Silverton, Montrose, Durango and Grand Junction. Very handy to have a couple of them as their describe the back roads and trails. The Jeep trails vary from very easy to " you have to be out of your mind to drive them" types of roads. LOL
Here is a photo of the head shaft building, Yankee Girl Mine, on CR 31, the road goes around it to the left and on around the hill in the distance. A Montrose couple, bought the mining claim and then leased it to the Ouray County Historical Society for a very nominal fee for many years. Most excellent of them. The high meadow with all the flowers is just around the mountain. The meadow is about 10,000 ft in elevation, so all you flatlanders like me, take it easy on the exorcise till you get use to the thin air and to me, no oxygen. LOL My wife does fine but she grew up in Woodland Park, CO and the Spring area
A number of good guide books available in any west slope bookstore, be it Ouray, Silverton, Montrose, Durango and Grand Junction. Very handy to have a couple of them as their describe the back roads and trails. The Jeep trails vary from very easy to " you have to be out of your mind to drive them" types of roads. LOL
