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Durango is a great place if you like to shop or do something very active outdoors - rafting, vigorous hiking, winter sports. You can spend all day just shopping and eating for sure. Just reading the many tee shirts is entertaining.
The Durango-Silverton Railroad (which I road some years ago but we did not this trip) is a marvel of engineering narrow gauge railway between these mining towns. In Silverton there is more shopping.
The unique thing we stumbled on is the historic Strator Hotel Room 222 - this is the room where Louis L'Amour stayed while writing his Sackett series; a western reader favorite and the basis of a few movies.
Saturday night Sam indulged me with a visit to the Bar D Chuckwagon dinner and show. This is their 49th year. There's more shopping opportunities before dinner and you sit at long tables, eat from tin plates and drink from tin cups, but the food is very good. Warning if you get the steak though - apparently a lot of msg - I woke up with a puffy face and felt lousy all the next day. Sam had to do most of the driving of our 12 hour day on the road yesterday.
Durango is a great place if you like to shop or do something very active outdoors - rafting, vigorous hiking, winter sports. You can spend all day just shopping and eating for sure. Just reading the many tee shirts is entertaining.
The Durango-Silverton Railroad (which I road some years ago but we did not this trip) is a marvel of engineering narrow gauge railway between these mining towns. In Silverton there is more shopping.
The unique thing we stumbled on is the historic Strator Hotel Room 222 - this is the room where Louis L'Amour stayed while writing his Sackett series; a western reader favorite and the basis of a few movies.
Saturday night Sam indulged me with a visit to the Bar D Chuckwagon dinner and show. This is their 49th year. There's more shopping opportunities before dinner and you sit at long tables, eat from tin plates and drink from tin cups, but the food is very good. Warning if you get the steak though - apparently a lot of msg - I woke up with a puffy face and felt lousy all the next day. Sam had to do most of the driving of our 12 hour day on the road yesterday.
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| A b it of beauty in the middle of a dirt hill |
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| Crossing the Animas River (River of Souls) |
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| In the lobby of the Strator |
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| Room was occupied so we were very quiet. |
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| Why can't we if wanta, yes we can can. |
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| Howdy little lady. |
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| On the floor of the visitors center. They call it the Grand Circle. |
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| Notice the words at the top of building to your left of Strator Hotel. A. Coors A.D. 1900 |
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| Really good lunch here. It's in the parking lot of the Albertsons |
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| In the ticket booth of Bar D Ranch |
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| Grain cracking machine from original ranch. |
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| Moonrise at the Bar D |
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| 3/4ths of the band pre-show. Good cowboy music. |
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| Gary is 2nd from right. He's been with the show 29 years. |
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| Matt Palmer on the far left. Beautiful baritone voice. |
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| On the far right is the comedian of the group |
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