Highway 50 through Nevada, represented as the “Loneliest Highway in America”? We drove the Colorado version of it today. Highway 50 from Canon City all the way to Montrose, following the Arkansas River watershed to Salida, then up and over Monarch pass in the fog and snow, motorcycles pulled over, a car off the road, through Gunnison, past Blue Mesa Reservoir, lunch at the overlook, and on to fuel up in Montrose. A strange mix of fall and winter.
We last filled up in Longmont, drove all the way west across the mountains to Glenwood, spent a week, dove diagonally across the mountains again to Canon City, spent another week, then back west across the mountains. One tank, six hundred miles.
From Montrose to Ridgway State Park. Got the last spot overlooking the river. The weather is cold and blustery. Up to a couple feet of snow up high. We’ll hunker down for a few days till the weather gets warmer. Another birdy spot. In just a few hours we’ve seen flickers, nuthatches, bluebirds, warblers, pewees, pipits, bushtits, jays, chickadees, robins, kingfishers, swallows, and a lincoln’s sparrow.
Good to be here.
