In this video, I'm going to take you along with us as we take a scenic drive through the san juan mountains to Telluride Colorado.
In this video series, we spend labor day weekend exploring the San Juan skyway
and Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park,
with stops in Durango, Silverton, Ouray, and Telluride
If you are interested in any of these destinations, I have a link to the Colorado playlist below in the description box.
As we left the National Park, our first stop was at this adorable coffee shop in Montrose.
After picking up a little lunch, we headed back down the 550 towards Ridgway.
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So we are passing through the town of Ridgway, this is where you turn off of 550 and you get on highway 62 to go down to Telluride
and it's an adorable little town, and there's a river through town- I saw some people swimming in the river,
don't ask me to pronounce it, because it has a really weird long name
what was that?
[mispoken pronunciation]
It's a really cute town, nice park. It might be a nice place to stay if you are in the area.
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so we found this adorable little county park for a pit stop and....
what views...what a beautiful place!
beautiful flowers blooming
there's a nice breeze,
it's gorgeous here!
I've never been along this road and I think the river is right over there....
but I'm going to wait for Brian to come back.
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San Juan Skyway! This is what we've been traveling on today!
and there's a beautiful...it's called the Keystone overlook
this is beautiful, the river down below
This is that word we couldn't pronounce earlier
This is interesting, a little history about a bank robbery in 1889 at the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride.
It's one of the most brazen and daring bank robberies in the history of Colorado! June 24, 1889
Butch Cassidy and Matt Warner successfully got away with what was calculated to be $20,000. That's more than $500,000 in todays currency.
That's interesting
Onward to Telluride!
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