We stayed last night at the Rifle Falls Campground near Rifle, Colorado. After arriving there yesterday afternoon we visited the triple waterfalls. Images below:
After getting a few essentials at the City Market in Rifle, filling up the gas tank and getting my birthday mocha at Starbucks we headed out for Grand Mesa National Forest. Much higher altitude and a lot cooler. Below are a couple of images from one of the pullouts near the top. One can see a very long distance.
We will be waiting for the aspen trees to become golden, hopefully in the next week or two.
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I think my first comment didn’t get in. My fault. I wanted Larry to know that we have a special birthday card for him and will hold it till we see you both again. Meantime it might be good for Marilyn to consider allowing Larry to win a skipbo match since it is his birthday or perhaps the day after. It would be a nice gesture I think. Cathie
Elsa and I want to check that out, as well as Rifle Gap State Park. Crawford State Park might be nice too. That’s down south of you quite a bit, east of Delta.
Up here in northern Colorado the peak for leaves is usually around the 20th in the mountains. I believe it’s a bit later, mid to south.
Just too warm for us so we came on down to Jumbo Campground. Nice and cool here and there are a few golden aspen leaves.