Ames viewpoint
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- William Wordsworth.
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On our trip to see fall in Colorado this was our first proper sighting of the beautiful golden aspens which makes the state famous for fall foliage. While planning the trip we assumed that this being an unusually hot summer, fall would be delayed in most of America and hence timed our trip for the second week of October. I was watching the Flickr pages for fall status and to my horror realized that fall actually came in early in Colorado. By then there was not much we could do and we decided to make the trip anyway. I was a bit scared that all the color will be gone by the time we reached there but to our relief we got a lot of color in the San Juan's and this view point of Ames during sunset was a true treat.
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- Pierre Corneille.
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When we decided to do a Colorado road trip for fall last year, I was secretly very proud about the planning which went into the trip. I had scoured the internet and travel books to find the perfect spots to watch fall foliage and then force ranked them and painstakingly plotted each spot into google maps. Weeded out the less impressive locations and then chronologically mapped a driving route using these impressive vistas.
My plans dictated that I stop at this viewpoint on our first day in Colorado for sunset. But as usual, we got side tracked by another beautiful vista along Trout Lake that we were too late for sunset. But even in the fading twilight light, you could see the beauty of this location and hence we decided to come back again the next day. We were not disappointed, as the last rays of the day hit the distant hills, we got to see one of the most spectacular scenes we witnessed on our fall trip. Hope you all enjoy it too.