Colorado

[David Houck]

Back in 1972 (or at least I'm fairly certain that's when) I drove into Colorado from Sante Fe, up to Denver, and then east towards Kansas.  I was struck by the difference between the great mountains on one side of Colorado and the flat terrain on the east side.


On another site this morning, I saw this beautiful picture; and I'm wondering where it is.  Anybody know?

[jwright9]

Looks like it could be near Buena Vista looking at the Collegiate Peaks Range.
That was what first came to my mind.

I am a Colorado native and have spent a lot of time in and around that town and that mountain range.

Beautiful!

[edwardofhuncote]

Looks like it could be near Buena Vista...

Coincidentally, I was in Buena Vista, Virginia just last weekend. It is a smallish mountain town up the Shennandoah Valley, surrounded by craggy peaks about 1/4 that elevation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buena_Vista,_Virginia


Never been in Colorado that I remember... it's possible that I slept through a corner of it on one of our trips out or back during the late-1990's. It always looks beautiful in pictures.

[David Houck]

Ah!  I was guessing that it was somewhere east of I-25.

[keith_h]

It doesn't look like anything I remember on the east side from when we lived there unless it was in the very southern portion where we never managed a visit. The mountains in the northern areas tend to be more jagged. It doesn't remind me of the west side in the Arapaho/Roosevelt National Forests either but does have more of a west side of the Rockies feel to me. 

[David Houck]

My only other visit to Colorado was in 1979 when I entered the southwest corner from Utah and drove up to Telluride for the jazz festival.  My knowledge of Colorado is obviously sorely lacking.

[growlypants]

I know it's not New Jersey!

[David Houck]

I know it's not New Jersey!

   

[edwin]

I'm thinking highway 285 south of Buena Vista (pronounced Byoona Vista, for some reason). I'll be driving near there tomorrow if I decide to take 285 to my gig.

Definitely not east of I-25. West of the divide, south of I-70.

[edwardofhuncote]

I'm thinking highway 285 south of Buena Vista (pronounced Byoona Vista, for some reason).

That's so funny... it's purposefully mispronounced here too. The old-folks (that live there) simply call it "Beyoonee".

[David Houck]

When I looked up Buena Vista on google images, there were a lot of pictures that contained copious amounts of snow; and a glance at Wikipedia shows it sitting at an elevation of 8,000 ft (2,400 m).  So, a high plateau west of the divide.

Another glance at the wiki shows that Boulder gets a lot more snow, but is at a lower elevation and not as cold.

[edwin]

We're definitely not getting the snow we used to here in Boulder. It's more convenient, but makes me nervous.

[keith_h]

When we lived there it wasn't uncommon to run into folks who had moved from Minnesota and the Dakota's for the more temperate witners of the Front Range. While not as mild as here in NC I really didn't find them all that bad compared to the winters I live through in my younger years in Illinois and Iowa.   

[benson_murrensun]

Looks like somewhere on US 285 to me, too. I love to let my Buell run that road.