Royal Gorge - Colorado

We started our wonderful day with 2 sweet Doe's walking right through our campsite

Our first stop today was the Royal Gorge in Canon City Colorado - an absolutely amazing engineering marvel ....

The first thing we did when we arrived was ride that red gondola across the Gorge which goes above the Arkansas River ...A wonderful ride ..

This bridge was built in 1929 but in 2013 there was a terrible fire that hit this beautiful area and burned everything in the park ACCEPT the bridge.  It burned 100 boards on the bridge and they salvaged what they could of them to build an outside wall of the new Welcome Centre ...the former gondola was burned beyond repair and so we were able to ride in the beautiful new one put in just 7 months ago - It was amazing what they had accomplished in a mere 1 1/2 years ...

There was a small herd of big horn sheep that didn't seem to be too bothered by visitors all around ...we finally got to see someone brave enough to zipline across the gorge - my gosh I don't know how they do it ....it was a marvelous day once again ...I loved having our day start with the deer in the campground but it ended with this in our parking spot !!!!!

A DANG TARANTUALA!!!!  I have never seen one ...let alone one walking by my car !!!

We move on tomorrow ....with dreams of returning to this area and this campground ....

 

"Autumn, the year's last loveliest smile"

 

 

Happy Trails!!