CO-62
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- William Cullen Bryant.
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CO-62 is a fantastic piece of road that connects the small towns of Placerville and Ridgway. When I say small, I mean tiny. Both these towns are small and usually not a prominent stop. Nearby towns like Telluride and Montrose attract most of the tourist traffic. While I was planning our trip to Colorado, I went through my usual practice of tagging all the target locations in google maps. Ridgway immediately stood out with so many sites nearby, and we decided to make it out the first basecamp. When we started to look for hotels near Ridgway, and it turned out to be a struggle. But finally, we got a reservation even though I was apprehensive about selecting such a small town as our basecamp.
In reality, the town turned out to be even smaller than we imagined. But we found some fantastic restaurants, and the motel was superb. We met some wonderful people as well, but the genuine surprise was the natural beauty around the area. We drove up and down the main highway that leads out of Ridgway many times. The road had some of the best fall scenery in the USA, and we often found ourselves pulling over and taking shots every few miles.
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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From a travel or photography perspective, I don’t have much luck with the fall season. Every year my wife and I plan trips for the fall and almost every year without fail something or other will happen that will render our plans useless. One exception to this string of badluck happened in 2016, I was about to start a new job and I managed to negotiate a delayed start to my new job enabling us to free up a week and tour some of the fantastic fall hotspots of Colorado.
While we didn’t time our trip perfectly, we managed to have a fantastic trip and see some of the best mountain scenery in North America along with some amazing fall colors. This shot is a panorama shot taken aong a highway that croses the spectacular San Juan Mountains near Ridgway, CO.
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- Michel de Montaigne.
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Another beautiful view from Ridgeway, Colorado. This town is so small but the road leading away from it are spectacular in their scenery, especially highway 62 which snakes through pristine ranches with the Sneffels range in the background. This shot was taken in one of our drive to Telluride, Co where we found some amazing restaurants.
I took this shot basically from a highway pullout, all I did was point and shoot, also added a polarizer to get a bit of pop in the colors. I don’t know when I will be back but I can’t wait to come see this place again.