Moving on to Colorado

Next stop was near Durango Colorado. We stayed at a Dude Ranch at an elevation of 7,000'. Beautiful place! Here we visited Mesa Verde National park. There are hundreds of ruins throughout this park, some are fairly well preserved and others not so much. We hiked down to Spruce Tree House and walked through the ruins.

We spent a day driving and looking at all the ruins we could see from the road.

We spent a day going on the Durango-Silverton train.

The scenery was beautiful with the gold aspen, the river and snow covered mountains. We had lunch and shopped in Silverton, which is about 8,000' elevation, before boarding the train to go back down to Durango. It reminded us of the scenery on the Copper Canyon train in Mexico.