UTAH

We are RV'ing in Utah for a couple of weeks. The plan is to ATV and motorcycle with 4 of our friends.

Behind us is an old home of the owners of the Silver King Gold Mine.

Lloyd enjoying the ride.

The trails are very well maintained.

You can go about 900 miles on interconnected trails, some are on roads and this jeep road goes under I70.

Dinner at 4UR Ranch

The 4UR Ranch is a 4,000 acre dude ranch, where you can vacation, ride horses, fish in Goose Creek and hike. Since it is only about 10 miles from South Fork, we decided to drive over to it, look around and have dinner in the 4UR Ranch House. The link to learn more about it is http://www.4urranch.com/ .





Old mine in the distance.



One of the guest houses and view looking back at Wagon Wheel Gap.


Original hot springs bath house which made this place a popular vacation destination in the early 1900's. It is used for storage now.

4UR Ranch House where we ate dinner. We had time to sit in the rockers for a while waiting for the dinner bell to ring.

Dining room.

4UR Ranch photos

Entrance to 4UR Ranch. The ranch is 4,000 acres, not 40,000 acres.


View of "new" hot spring fed spa. It is located across from the ranch house.


Main room in Ranch House.

Dining room, we had a prime rib dinner and dessert buffet.

Map of 4UR Ranch. Goose Creek runs though it. It is approx. 15 miles long.

The fun never stops in South Fork

We went ATV riding just south of us and drove on a trail that lead us to Swale Lake. The wild flowers are just beautiful.



Picnic time.
I wonder why Joe is driving my machine? Oops, he should have bought a Honda.
Lloyd and Jack driving up to Elwood Pass. 11,600 Ft.

Motorcycle ride to Lake City

We stopped at Windy Point, just outside of Lake City and took these photos of Red Mountain and Uncompahgre Mountain.




A ride is not complete until we stop to eat. Our lunch stop is at Poker Alice's Cafe in Lake City.

On the way home we had to stop at Freeman's to have toasted coconut ice cream.

Rail and Ale Trip from Alamosa to the mountains

On the way to the beer fest we were able to have a real nice place to sit on the train car. Lloyd was pretty happy about it since it was a 2 hour train ride. About 400 folks went on the trip.

We were on the lower level of the rail car.
There were 15 beer venders offering 50 different kinds of beer. I thought the tasting mugs were kind of cute.

There was a band and a barbeque rib/chicken lunch. We stood in line 1 hour for our food.
On the way home everyone else found out how nice the 1st two cars were and we had to sit in 4th class!

Motorcycling with Lynn and Jerry

After we met Lynn and Jerry we rode to the Snowy Range in southern Wyoming.









































Planning the route to Colorado while at breakfast in Saratoga, WY.

While traveling on the Grand Mesa route on the way to Paonia, CO, we stopped at this beautiful lake.