Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Pk

We were very happy to get to visit this National Park. Of course we got our stamp in our passport book, and a sticker for our camper fridge. This is one of the less visited National Parks because it is a little out of the way. It is mostly a scenic rim drive with short hikes at each of the overlooks out to the edge. You can go down into the canyon, and the beautiful Gunnison River is down there, but honestly...only crazy people would hike that, lol!! It was very beautiful and we are so glad we took the time to explore it. We spoke to a volunteer, Jerry, at one of the overlooks. I asked him if there were dragons at Dragon overlook. He Proceeded to show us a picture that he had taken last year. Evidently, under certain conditions and on a certain day and at a certain time of the day, the sun rising through a cleft in the rock reflects on the rock opposite it, and appears to be Dragon fire ! They call it the Dragons tongue. Ironically, it's not at Dragon overlook. It was beautiful!

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining Wilderness be destroyed... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its Edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, A part of the geography of Hope.
.... Wallace Stegner, "The Sound of Mountain Water" Czytaj więcej