Another Loop drive outside Gunnison

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Today is our 37th wedding anniversary. We decided there was no better way to enjoy it than to enjoy more of God's glorious wonders.  Today's adventure will take us from Gunnison to Almont to Taylor Reservoir to Tin Cup to Pitkin to Ohio City then over Cumberland Pass to Parlin and back to Gunnison.

We left about 7:30am so we could have breakfast at the Nugget Café at Taylor Reservoir. It came highly recommended.  

After we turned off US 135 at Almont we followed the Taylor River. The following 4 pictures are some of the unique rock formations along the river and of the Taylor River also.

 The drive to Taylor Reservoir was absolutely gorgeous!

 Here we are at Taylor Reservoir.  It is only about 9am. It does appear to be slightly smoky here even though it does not smell smoky.

Above if the Nugget Café. Most structures up here are log. Below is the beautiful stained glass window in the entrance door.

After breakfast of omelet and waffle, we headed to Tin Cup.

 Above and below are both Frenchy's Café. It also came highly recommended but breakfast was only about 20 mins ago. Frenchy's is at 10,167' elevation.

How about this for a store? I think you better come prepared for your stay here. We saw several families taking off to explore the area in the 4x4 ATVs. There were cabins to rent also.

As we left Tin Cup... 

we had to dodge the cattle on the road. They were inquisitive about us.

We are now headed to Cumberland Pass.

OMG are those the roads we will be taking?? Yes we took the top road seen on the side of this mountain.

We made it to another Colorado pass!  The next 3 pictures below are the views from Cumberland Pass.

We are feeling blessed to be able to see so much splendor!

Now we head down the other side of the mountain to Pitkin.

We arrived at Pitkin & the General Store first. It was such a cute town, that we took lots of pictures of the buildings as seen below.

Of course the Pitkin Assay office was an important historic spot.

Next we drive through Ohio City.

 Ohio City is considered a semi-ghost town. The City Hall seen above was built in 1906 and started its life as the mercantile for the town. For a short while it was served as a restaurant before it was became City Hall in 1914. City Hall and the stores seen below is almost all of town.

On our way out of Ohio City we saw this rock formation all by itself.

 There was a sign calling it Indian Head Rock.

When we got back into Gunnison, Tic took me to the best rated Mexican food restaurant in Gunnison, El Parasian. We were not impressed, thus no pictures.

Later in the evening the clouds started rolling in and the weather looked ominous.

 Tic got some dramatic black and white pictures of the clouds.

However as it turned out, we never got any rain. It was beautiful watching the clouds change.

What a wonderful way to end a splendid anniversary day!