Scenic CO Hwy 14, Poudre River Canyon

We loved this drive! But any drive west through Colorado is going to be beautiful. This appears on the maps as a pretty thin little line, which always makes me nervous about size. But it only had 2 passes, one at 10,200 and the other at 9,400. And the RV mechanic that helped us in Lincoln had mentioned this driver from the time he lived in Colorado. So I called him and asked what he thought about our unit, towing a jeep, would do. He felt it was no problem.
He was right, long grade up to the pass, good road, lots of "slower vehicle" turnouts, follows the Poudre River. It's a canyon drive so some areas pretty dry. Also looks like there was a pretty big fire up here, and also some beetle kill areas. But still lots of evergreen trees with the beautiful gold of the aspens, rust colored shrubs, tawny grasses, blue skies with bright white clouds. We even had snow flurries at the top. Great drive! We saw some antelope, and I think I saw a moose, but it was far away. This is moose country in this area, known as North Park.
Found a nice little state park that was still open, many are closed. With Golden age passport, $6.00. No services, and just vault toilets, but still a pretty site. Right by Dumont lake, maybe 8,000Read more