What It's Like Exploring The Backroads Of Colorado
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- Опубліковано 27 гру 2023
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You have no idea what things you'll see in Colorado when you get off the main highways.
We spent 8 days getting lost in Colorado to see what life is like in areas that you've never seen before.
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can you reveal how these road trips are financed ?
Should be pretty obvious considering he's almost at 1 million subscribers lol, he gets paid by UA-cam. @@Juno_Beach
Nick Big Thanks Brilliant Video Really enjoyed it and luring even more for US Always 👍👍👍👍
Can you define Woke?
What you don't like answering questions?
The older I get (63) living in a ''Podunk town'' is lookimg more and more appealing.
Im 60 and ive felt that way for decades
Yep. I escaped Illinois 18yrs yes ago to a small town in Wisconsin.
I’m 60 and am very tired of my podunk town. Nothing to do ☹️
@@tracisawyer7681just go poop on your neighbors driveway. That’s what they’re doing in big cities these days.
I’m 42 and I can tell you that it kind of sucks having to drive an hour to buy groceries and I miss being able to order Thai food. The grass is always greener…
The Western Slope is wonderful. The reason people say it's "bad" is because it's not full of big box stores, chain restaurants, and all of the other accoutrements of the "city".
Sounds like heaven, peace, family 🎉
Personally, I believe it's death to a quirky small mountain town when a Starbucks shows up. It's downhill from there...😬
I’d take the western slope any day over the urban decay of the Front Range.
Best burger I have ate in Colorado was in Florissant at the Iron Tree Restaurant. That place was amazing. If ever in that area, eat there!
I can't wait to be that far from everything!!
I live in Colorado and I love Colorado. It's cities, not so much. The mountains and prairies, the high deserts and river valleys are amazing beyond description.
You should check out northern New Mexico if you haven’t already. It’s like colorado but without all the people
@Soggygranite it is nice driving up from Farmington, into Durango. It is a little different type of beauty. But it is beauty none the less.
What's wrong with the cities? Actually I have a good of what's wrong with Denver after watching Nick's video on that city.
The lunatics running Denver are ruining it...
@@SoggygraniteLove Chama!
This is the Colorado I miss, not the present Front Range.
I'm from Germany and I've never been to the US but I love watching your videos because it gives a great view on your country and all the variety and different towns and cities. Thanks a lot for your work which does a way better job than any media outlet out there!
Isn't THAT the truth?!! Our USA nightly "news" doesn't like to talk about the druggies who are being allowed to literally take over our cities!!!
Danke
True ❤
Come visit us :)
@@brettburnside1457 I'd love to someday
I'm a Colorado native. My cousins and I used to go 4 wheeling up in the mountains- lot of incredible scenery to see
Colorado is the best state, why because I live there. I look out my patio and see the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. I am twenty minutes from Rocky Mountain National Park! Blessed to see such beauty daily! Grateful 🙏😇🤗🗻❤️❣️
I agree it's a very pretty state in terms of it's natural beauty. But in terms of it's main city's such as Denver I think it's pretty bad.
May be 20 minutes by map But it takes 2 hours in traffic to get there.
Colorado sucks they just took Trump off the ballot and legalized shrooms. Sounds like a bunch of goofballs to me.
Sorry no sunny beautiful beach. I'll stay in Florida. But yes please stay in Colorado 😊 it's the best. Everyone should move there and California.
@@Luka_c123 Yep Denver went from the number one best city in America in 2018 to 44th by 2022. Yep it's a @#&$ hole!
I was in Ouray CO for four days this past August. Awesome little mountain town. It took me a day or so to acclimate to the 7,800 ft elevation. The drive along the Million Dollar Highway (US-550) was breathtaking.
I ❤ouray
BTW, Coloradans call it YouRay, Not OOORay!! :)😂
@@Emon7543 Yes sir. I caught on to the local pronunciation.
@@Emon7543 ooorah!
I get to make that drive from Durango to Ouray a few times a month for work in the summer. Quite a nice drive to get paid to make😂
I live in the western slope. Little town called Palisade, just outside of Grand Junction. Our main thing here is agriculture. So many small time orchards. Peaches & wine mostly. We hope you visit next time you're in the state to see our festivals.🙂🙌
@Troutchaser99, I been to Palisade in 1967 and again in 2007 years, my older sister lives in Grand Junction, Colorado she took me there in 2007 in July month we also went to Mesa Mountain so beautiful country. from 1965 to 1968 my parent lives in Colorado around Mack Colorado I was 8 to 12 years of age when I live there with my parents, I am now 66 years of age, my naive place I was born 5 miles west of Lincoln, California Now days I live in North Sacramento California my house paid off so have no need to move.
@darleneatkinson3906 It is a beautiful town. The Mesa is my favorite spot, as it's essential our backyard here and it takes all but 40 Minutes to reach the top. This is the smallest community I've been apart of, and I love it.
Hey neighbor, I'm also in palisade 👋
I’m also a Palisade resident - love it!
Palisade is a beautiful rurall town with the desert mesas for a backdrop. Whenever I drive through there I love to stop by and grab a pint at Palisade Brewery. The last time I was there it was a couple years ago in October. It was right around sunset, with an autumn chill in the air, and an outdoor fire pit going on. It was the perfect atmosphere to have a cold one!
Ouray had an amazing scenic setting. I'm just not sure about the winters at 7800-foot elevation.
You think that's high try Leadville CO 10,000 ft
Yeah Nick, all the dead pine trees up Wolf Creek outside of Pagosa is beetle kill. Terribly managed, scary to imagine all that going up in flames one day.
I wish you'd have gone up north through the San Luis valley - you'd have liked (bougie) Salida, and eventually gone through our tiny town of Bailey and visited the yeti museum 😂
Next time!
Grand junction is still conservative town, and the homless park is dubbed locally as bum park, it was recently cleared of the homless and fenced off, a temporary shelter was built a few blocks away for the homeless.. its really a nice place to live
The Californians who flooded in in the 80s during the oil shale bust bought up whole blocks of houses. Come winter, they put up for sale signs and went back. Unfortunately, they didn't stay and have flooded all of our western states now like rats off a sinking ship.
@DannyGibas I don't disagree. It's definitely sliding
Absolutely love this style of video. Especially the locals getting interviewed.
When you get out of the city, Colorado is actually very nice too bad cities like Denver are forever lost due to bad policy and decision making.
@@JonathanArmstrong-xd4wm all once nice cities in generally beautiful states that will never get it's priorities straight.
And bad drivers!
I lived in CO Springs for 3 months and saw car crashes every single week I was there.
I moved back to the mountains.
Colorado is not one of the most beautiful places in the US only but in the entire world. The people, the weather, I literally love everything about this State.
I live in Colorado Springs. I love it here. Every small mountain town is nice. Colorado is truly beautiful. The secret is out about how nice it is here.
Native Rich ("The Goose") Gossage, who pitched for The NY Yankees, was very well liked here in NYC.
My mom, dad and their parents were from Colorado, my mom from Leadville, and dad lived on the Western Slope, but wound up teaching High School in Leadville, where he met my mom. Also my dads family brought the first piano into Colorado over the Rockies by mule, it was in the museum in Ouray, but don't know if it still is.
That's a real cool story
Love Colorado. Probably coolest back road we took was through Phantom Canyon from Cripple Creek.
Try Shelf Road from Cripple Creek to Canon City. It's a shelf!😊
Both roads are fun. Been awhile but they were practically my backyard playground for years. Shelf sure was as turns into Fields Ave/St. Lol
Colorado and Utah should have more water rights than the last stops of the Colorado River (California & Arizona).
Water bills are so expensive in Colorado as well. I paid $50 monthly bill for a one bedroom apartment consisting of only myself.
@@jag92949that has nothing to do with the River
Tf
@@CCC303THIZZ Higher prices contribute to lower supply. I know socialists in Colorado know absolutely nothing about high-school economics.
California & Arizona needs to ban Watering on its lawns ,golf couses and parkways .
@@ZIGZAGBureauofInvestigation What’s wrong with growing cactuses. You never need to water them.
"The more languages you know, the better." 👍 Facts
The spruce beetle killed all those trees as you drove up Wolf Creek Pass.
pine beetle
Love some Colorado backroads!!❤️
i know you do honey
So glad you made this video! I lived in Montrose and commuted to my job at Telluride ski resort (70 miles/1.5 hours each way). We had an employee shuttle until COVID. I couldn’t afford the commute so had to get a job somewhere else.
No one is commuting from Montrose to Aspen. The 2 towns are 3 hours apart. People working in Aspen might live and commute from Glenwood Springs.
The western slope is far better than the Front Range and the Summit County. It’s not too overrun except in places like Telluride and Ouray. Ouray is pronounced “Your Ray.” You totally butchered that 😂!
I'm from New Zealand and sure I'd love to see the usual tourist traps of the USA but places like the ones in this and other recent vlogs are what I would love to see.
Keep it up Nick! Great to see the diversity of your homeland.
Ok! 🇳🇿 ❤️
I hope you made time to stop at Great Sand Dunes Natl Park! You were right there being in Blanca. One of the coolest parks I’ve been to
I know Blanca;;;I have ran all over the San Luiz valley N S E to W
🎉 Colorado is Beautiful. I moved to Denver... Then moved back to Muskegon Michigan
Hi. I'm surprised you went to Michigan. They had the most draconian laws then most during illness. No thank you. I hope things stay free by you. God bless you and us all.
@@KJones-qs7ju I went back to Ohio
But my city was gone
There was no train station
There was no downtown
South Howard had disappeared
All my favorite places
My city had been pulled down
Reduced to parking spaces
Nice. Akron’s finest.
@@nitedreamer23 hey
Dude, your narrations have me rolling. Every single video. Keep up the good work & happy new year.
Nick Johnson/Mappy 2024!
The Colorado National Monument is in Grand Junction . Its incredible
I visited Grand Junction and the Delta Area last summer. I visited about a month and a half later. The people with the improvised fruit stand were still there and I gassed up at that station before I went up to the Colorado National Monument. A guy who I was talking to at the disc golf course in town said he had lived all over the country and he lived living in Grand Junction the most.
Hey Nick back in 2011 I lived up in the mountains of Colorado in a little ghost town called Victor about a 45 min drive from Colorado Springs I loved it up there and I got a chance to travel thousands of miles checking out Colorado!!
Shout out to Victor!!! ❤ LOVE that place and the people!!! Cool history. No pretences, just good, down to earth people trying to get by❤❤❤
I’ve always wanted to visit the gold mine in Victor. I lived in Colorado Springs and visited Cripple Creek many times. Went to the Mollie Kathleen mine tour, it was interesting going down a 1000ft vertical mining shaft. If US 24 gets closed because of weather isn’t it like a 3hr drive to the Springs? It’s changed now but I really enjoyed the Mountain Burger restaurant in a gas station in Florissant.
I lived in Lawrence, ghost town southwest of Victor. 😊
I have not been to Colorado for 22 years. I forgot how nice it looked.
Thanks Nick for taking us with you on your amazing journeys 🌍 🚗.
Your in OURAY .. WOW I cannot believe your there ♥ I drove that pass all the time in the 1980's .. Oh I love that area to pieces !! ♥
Thank you, Nick! I was born in Loveland, so seeing my state and all the changes I've seen in 27 years.. the homeless, the growth... Thank you for showing Colorado. Maybe less out of staters will come here!
Don't count on it. It's only going to get more and more crowded as people flee crappier states
Watching it, and seeing Colorado from my couch on the internet doens't really compare to seeing it in person. But it is better than nothing.
Yes Mike!
Hey Niko, Grand Junction is a good place to start your fossil hunt, and the interesting ghost town of Animas Forks is by Ouray.
I wish my Husband Robert was living and we both could move to the State of Colorado. Ever since his death on 07 September 2022, my live has been nothing but torture. I intensely miss him.
Aww I'm sorry 😞 🙏
Yay! You pronounced Olathe correctly!
Colorado is such a pretty state. Beautiful sunshine, but really expensive! I like this video.😊❤
It really is!
what a super nice tour...thanks for sharing😊🎉 keep it up
I moved out of Colorado 9 years ago. I'm 78 and I lived there most of my life. I miss Colorado, but I was saying that several years before leaving. Change happens!
That landscape next to the endless straight roads looks amazing. So beautiful!
What a nice tour of Colorado that was!
Look foward to checking it out bro, be safe out there!
Beautiful Colorado. Thanks for the trip!!
Epic scenery. Its a beautiful part of the world, the wilderness parts anyway
It's absolutely gorgeous. I've been there, done that.
Another great video! Really inspiring me to do something similar and go back to colorado to truly enjoy it
A lot of the agricultural product is being grown indoors, under lights
I love this channel!!!!!
Had to laugh when you were talking about the west side of Colorado, let us not forget how 'beautiful' the east part of Colorado is.
The eastern plains are beautiful! But I need wilderness land to play in. It's all just farms and sage put there. No trees or mountains! Just the comanche grassland! Not enough for me 🫠
I've started appreciating the eastern side more lately. Where you from? It's funny in my mind I just lump most of the east into "west Kansas" "west Nebraska" or "north panhandle"
Hi Nick, nice to see Colorado.
One of the best Police man from Colorado was Joe Kenda.
I saw him on TV.
He is very famous in Germany ❤
Have a peaceful new year ❤
Love Kenda !
My, my, my.
@@goombah226 Fine!
A good start 2024.
Greetings from Germany
Carina
@@carinarilk89 And greetings from the free state of Texas.
Such a great video and you have a great perspective. I really enjoy the interviews as you visit different areas!
so much to see!!! some very magical places
I've been to Colorado a couple times and it was beautiful!! I did some hiking.
The Nick Johnson “America is Closed” tour continues! 😆
Love it… as always so much fun. CO is beautiful. I used to spend a lot of time out there. Thanks, Nick!
Always good stuff. Thanks Nick , keep doing what you do !
Thank You Nick, I So Look Forward For You Sharing Your On Road Travels, Wendy
Wendy!! ❤️❤️
I really enjoyed the mountain west series. I'm always looking forward to what you'll upload next!
Beautiful scenery out there
I loved in fort Collins in the early 2000.... Best time of my life. I love that place
What a state. Incredible.
A+ video!
Awesome Colorado Odyssey through the backroads!
You have a good new year!
@@NickJohnson You have a good year too!
One of your better adventure videos.
I used to go to Grand Junction, and Palisades alot. I love Palisades. Lots of wine tours and grape orchards. Very beautiful. The Maverik gas station in Palisades has so many beers, and wines I've never seen anywhere else.
Awesome video their doing the same thing here in Scotland. Building on on brown and green field sites. On the subject of water where in California is the big pipe mentioned by the Donald. That directs fresh water out into the Pacific so adding to the water problems.
Always awaiting your videos 🎉 So happy to see this Colorado video..... Especially when you came thru LONGMONT.... Wish I could have run into you..... Another favorite part of your journey... Was Ouray ( Silverton) ... Wish you had hit Telluride.... My most favorite part of our State .... 2025 we make 25 years in Colorado ( Longmont)..... Can't wait for your next journey.... Happy New Year 🎉.... Stay safe and enjoy 💖
what a great video, love all the downtowns, Glen was a cool guy, Colorado is beautiful!
Thank you for the trip, and the LAUGHS 😊😋🤭
They can grow hops because the climate is similar to areas of eastern Washington state, where they grow the famous "Cascade" hop variety. My grandparents' family lived at Monte Vista, near the southern border, and some of those people grew red potatoes. One of my great uncles was on the Colorado potato board in the 1940s and 50s.
I used to get bitter when this guy would talk about the homeless situation in california but i look forward to all these videos and truly appreciate so thx4this😊
Living in Colorado, I grew to hate the hobos. They take handouts and use drugs. What’s to like?
@@jag92949 they exhale co2 that nourishes the trees that make o2 for us to breath and stay alive
I really enjoy You're up close perspectives on places you go.. Keep it up!😊
I've driven many of the mountain roads in Colorado. Love it!
Some of the shots of the Million Dollar Road looked like the opening to The Shining 👍😊
I found it amusing and ironic that you were listening to "Californiacation" on the radio in the Grand Junction clip...👍
As an East Coast boy who moved to SoCal at 20 yrs. old moved to Western Colo. for 20 yrs. of my life. Those were some good ol' daze.
First class again, many thanks Nick.
I’ve lived in Denver for 30 years. I still love it here ❤❤
Another great video nick, I'm from Australia and just love watching your vids. Keep the small country town documentaries coming, they are more beautiful than any bloody big city mate. All the best
Agree! I'm from Brisbane and would love to visit Colorado. I would do a road trip except for the fact I would struggle driving on the wrong side of the road!
❤️❤️ 🇦🇺
And I’m likewise horrified by the thought of driving in the UK or Australia🤣
@@Sammy-il1qf I did it last year (from NZ). It's honestly not bad! Only takes a couple of days to get used to it. I also found driving in the US generally very easy. Go for it! The Southwest is amazing for road trips.
@eljj7968 I love the look of Colorado, but where else would you recommend? Lake Tahoe appeals, and New England region.
Have been to NY and Florida.
Looks lovely high mountains and high country .
Dude, you got one of the best channels! Please keep making your content. I learn so much. I'm appreciative of it. You probably know the US better than anybody now. NICK JOHNSON for PRESIDENT!
How are you liking California, I mean Calirado? Are you passing through Douglas County again?
Not true
Polis should never try to correct anyone on the pronunciation. He's a devout Californian that has turned this state into California.
All the craftsman are dying off,in every field of work! It really sucks....I love your videos!!
I really like your videos like this, where you show not just the bad parts, but the whole picture. Felt like I as a German who never been to the US had been to Colorado myself! Keep it up!
This looks spectacular
The dead spruce trees are from a beetle that has ravaged Colorado forests. Mountain pine beetles
If I ever move back to Colorado it will be on western side. Front Range is not the same anymore 😔.
Colorado is so pretty ❤ thanks for the video 😊
I live in Boston, and I would love to live out there in the west
Looks like eastern Oregon, very beautiful! Both get super cold
Weird how no one will talk about that smh
Gosh! I am happy to live in such a beautiful state. I can't wait to get my new vehicle so i can go exploring.
I know exactly where you are. Ugh don’t miss it at all.
Oh My Goodness Nick You never cease to not make me laugh and cry and laugh.
Good Job , it is really hard to entertain me but you
do the job .
Thank You.
Come back to discover more of Western Washington. Not the city parts. Just a request. 👊
Fyi, Ouray is pronounced "yerray". I am so glad to see your review of my neck of the woods.
Hi Nick! ThankYou4Sharing!!! ❤ 🕊 PrayALL is well n fine !!! ❤ 🕊 MuchLove!!!
Also spent time in Ouray (a friend there) and Silverton. First weed store I ever visited was on Main St. in Denver!
Nick is just my poll worker! Edit: I want that leather jacket! Edit #2: the Rocky Mountains are always looming in background
Thank you Nick!💞 Great Video!! Colorado is Beautiful but the politicians there are ruining it.
True dat😊
@@locoflahute8916 Hey There! How are you doing? Do you live in Colorado?