Heading out to Colorado from Boston Ma
08-14-2016, 11:08 AM
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Heading out to Colorado from Boston Ma
Gonna be heading out to Colorado solo on September 3 for approx 3 weeks. Was wondering if there is anyway you can hook up with a jeep club or other members for some trail rides and sight seeing. Thinking of hitting the San Juan area to explore. Pretty much up for anything but nothing to extreme cause I have to drive home after all said and done. Looking for advice on best way to go about this.
08-15-2016, 07:44 PM
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If you go into Ouray you'll find somebody to wheel with. The trails are pretty jeep friendly. There are hundreds of stock rental jeeps running them. Just stay off of Poughkeepsy, it's a tougher one.
08-16-2016, 05:42 PM
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I saw a book called Colorado Trails - southwest region by Peter Massey, Jeanne Wilson, Angela Titus. There were maps but it also had descriptions of everything along the way by mileage. If you were headed east on Engineer for instance, it would say at mile 6.4 was a pit toilet, or a mining building or whatever. It would tell you what the intersections were and a description of the trail ahead. I bought a nice map at one of the guide shops out there. It was $13.
I wish I had made it down to Silverton. It was described to me as an old west Hollywood set except it was real. We did spend a lot of time at Animas looking through all the buildings and stuff. Really cool history.
I wish I had made it down to Silverton. It was described to me as an old west Hollywood set except it was real. We did spend a lot of time at Animas looking through all the buildings and stuff. Really cool history.
