Yes, in an earlier crazy life pre-bronco, we took Chris's crew cab, long bed Ford F350 up there. Ironically enough, it did quite well until the final rocky hill before the wall at the end.RockMonkey said:
Not right off the top of my head, but Charles Wells has a CO wheeling trails book that has Poughkeepsie and all the other passes in it. I know Chris has found some stuff on the web though, I'll ask him.cruiseroutfit said:
Was that last year?RockMonkey said:
BroncoMama said:
Heard it was the book to have on the area. I have never been, fortunately some of the group I am going with have been several times.
Good call on the book, it is definitely helpful if you don't know the area. I have ridden the train before and it is an amazing experience. They don't call it a narrow gauge for no reason!cruiseroutfit said:Ordered it yesterday...
Have you (or anyone else reading) ridden the narrow gauge train in the area?
Thanks for all the help!
It is very pretty, but I would recommend just riding from Durango to Silverton. It's a long day to do the round trip thing and you're only allotted like 2 hours in Silverton.
No it was several years ago. 2002 maybe?BroncoMama said:
BroncoMama said:...They don't call it a narrow gauge for no reason!
Okay, was just curious because we never made it up to Poughkeepsie last year and we had some serious snow.RockMonkey said:
Yes! I would absolutely recommend riding it! Split the ticket with someone else though. If you are camping in/around Silverton get up early in the morning, and drive down to Durango. Leave your truck at the train station (McDonald's, if I remember right), take the train up. give your ticket to the person you are splitting it with in Silverton, they'll ride the train back down and drive your truck back up to you. We rode the train up, and it took several extra hours because they had to fix it just outside Durango, and it was still well worth it. Someone else rode the train down and picked up our car.cruiseroutfit said:Have you (or anyone else reading) ridden the narrow gauge train in the area?
Thanks for all the help!
I think it's about 4 to 5 hours. The drive from Durango to Silverton is about an hour and WOW is it beautiful. Also, if you want to check out the actual trains, they hang out in Silverton from about noon to 3ish.cruiseroutfit said:
Greg said:Screamed like a girl...
