Quote Originally Posted by jerryg79 View Post
ahh sweetness! I know what we are going to do on sat, once everyone breaks their rigs on fri. Load up coops new rat rod!

I say we head all the way upto pueblo and cut over on 50. Canon City is where Royal Gorge (I'm surprised they named it that, I thought karl's mom had that name trademarked ...eww!) is, should be pretty country, looks like some windy ass roads, i'll do some investigating.
50 sounds good. Here is what I got from tx4x4 on the route.

Quote Originally Posted by jesus_man on tx4x4
As far as route, I might suggest getting off I-40 in amarillo and head up 87 thru clayton. It's a wide 2-lane and easily passible for you. It does get windy, but that really won't change either way you go. If by some slim chance it's snowing, better have all the weather report #'s handy. We go caught in Clayton one time coming home for Christmas. I have been up hwy 69 to gardner and it was a small 2-lane and I can't tell you what the condition is like now. A good alternate is hwy 50 from Pueblo. It's probably another 40 minutes to pueblo from Walsenburg and then West. Maybe costing you 20-40 minutes of travel time, but the hwy 50 is much better. If you decide on 69, fuel up in Walsenburg as everything else to Salida is small one-horse towns.

oh, and I always thought the nickname was grand canyon