Garden of the Gods

[billroper]

daisy_knotwise and I spent some time today walking around the Garden of the Gods. This is an absolutely gorgeous park with towers of red sandstone rock that have survived as the less durable stone weathered away around them. It's reminiscent of Arches National Park in many ways, except that the formations have taken a different form. I may post pictures later, but I need to get them downsized to something reasonable for Web.

But, wow, that's cool.

(Actually, it wasn't that cool. Someone scheduled relatively warm weather, so I spent most of the time walking around in a short-sleeve shirt and sneering at the folks in parkas. Only a few of those, though.)

Comments

[drawshad.livejournal.com]

How bizzare, they have vitually no photos on their website. Wouldn't you think they'd have photos there? That's how I'd design it.

[awfulhorrid.livejournal.com]

Well, you can always get an aerial view:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=manitou+springs,+colorado&ll=38.902756,-104.895165&spn=0.008217,0.020426&t=h&hl=en

Garden of the Gods was one of my favorite places to visit when I was stationed in Colorado Springs. My boyfriend at the time and I would go out there at night to some of the public road areas and watch the stars. It's a really beautiful area.

I have a lot of pictures, but unfortunately they're all of the physical variety and I lack a scanner right now.

Colorado Rocks

[birder2.livejournal.com]

Yes, Garden of the Gods is quite a place. I've never seen Arches except in pictures, but I did make to to GOTG several years ago when I visited friends in Florissant. I bet I even have slides somewhere that I could find if I had a month to devote to the project. It's not what us Midwesterers think of as typical Christmas weather/scenery, which may be all to the good.