Re: Cripple Creek, CO 29-30 Sept 2012

Posted by HH56 On 2012/10/2 14:13:07

Very nice. Hope the trip over was uneventful -- and do hope the roads are vastly improved now. Such gorgeous scenery in all directions.

When a kid, I remember a summer trip dad took us on thru a bunch of old mining towns - Cripple Creek, Gunnison, some other town with a large mining museum on the main road and several others with a few hundred people still calling them towns. This was in the mid 50's in a 51 Packard.

Each town was higher on the mountain than the last and the roads had more twists and turns for each one. We drove on some roads which were not much more than wagon trails -- 2 lanes if lucky and sheer drop offs. To the best of my recollection that Packard didn't flinch at any of them and hope yours didn't either.