Today we traveled 445 miles and spent the entire day in Colorado traveling from Cortez, CO to Colorado Springs, CO. Along the way we made two quite interesting stops.
The first stop was at the Mesa Verde National Park. This is the only National Park dedicated to preserving the “works of man” rather than something in nature. These are incredible ancestral homes of the Pueblo people from over 700 years ago. It is amazing at how well they are preserved and the architectural details and structures used back then.
The second stop was at the newest national park, the Great Sand Dunes National Park. These sand dunes were created by winds picking up sand from glaciers and depositing it all at one stop along the Rocky Mountains. Just like the Grand Canyon, it is hard to describe and capture the size and expanse of these sand dunes. I took a video trying to capture the dunes better. You can see it at http://youtu.be/KW51M5xI8Co . You can see some people as small dots to give you some idea as to the size of the dunes. The dunes cover 30 square miles. We all enjoyed this stop and would have liked to stay longer.
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