CA, NV, UTAH, CO USA: Road Trip part 2: Cities & Streets: episode #16
Continue in part two of this three-part road trip into Utah and Western Colorado.
While still in Utah we take US Highway 70 East towards Colorado. Travel along the Colorado River to Fruita in western Mesa County, Colorado, United States.
Enter Colorado National Monument on the west (Fruita) side and see Fruita Canyon, Lizard Canyon, Balance Rock and drive up to the visitor center. Continue on the Rim Rock Drive and see Independence Monument View, the Grand View, Coke Ovens Overlook, Artists Point and Highland View, Fallen Rock Overlook, Ute Canyon View, Cold Shivers Point. The East entrance is at Grand Junction on Monument Road.
Attend the Western Slope Vietnam War Memorial Park or drive by Hwy 340 and Jurassic Ct. in Fuita, Colorado and take in the Dinosaur Journey Museum of Western Colorado waiting for you to venture inside.
Visit Montrose (zip code 81401), in the Uncompahgre Valley in Western Colorado. See views along E. Main Street, visit E Main Street and S Townsend Ave, see the Fox theater where the movie, True Grit showed executives film clips of their daily progress in the late 1960s.
See the old post office and old high school, go south of Montrose to Chipeta Road see the
Ute Indian Museum and Ouray Springs, visit the grave site of Chipeta and Chief John McCook.
See the snow-covered streets of Montrose, Colorado and the drive In-theater, The Star, peek at Oak Grove Elementary school at Highway 90 and Oak Grove Road, visit the Grand View Cemetery, where my Great Aunt Thelma Yates is laid to rest. See the Cedar Cemetery west of town, where my great grandparents Mattie and George Yates are buried.
Enjoy some of Montrose Art Walk’s finest statues, like, When Eagles Dare by Vic Payne,
see the Denver and Rio Grande train station which houses the Montrose County Historical Museum. See views of the snowy grounds at Ridgeway State Park, CO.
Cities & Streets brings you Episode #16 which is part 2 of 3 of our road trip through Nevada, Utah and parts of South Western Colorado. In this episode we visit the capital building in the capital of Utah, Salt Lake City and see the skyline that includes the Mormon temple, plaza and office building. We see exterior art at the Salt Palace Convention Center downtown.
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