Across COLORADO: Back Roads Drive From Steamboat Springs To Pueblo - Far Off The Interstate
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- Опубліковано 4 лис 2024
- We took mostly 2 lane roads across the middle of Colorado, starting in Steamboat Springs and ending in Pueblo.
Towns and cities driven through:
Steamboat Springs
Kremmling
Frisco
Breckenridge
Alma
Fairplay
Hartsel
Guffey
Canon City
Pueblo
Travel Vlog 126
When driving thru Colorado..no commentary is needed.Its beauty speaks for itself. God's country!
What a beautiful drive Mr. Spoda. I really miss driving over the road, the mountainous scenery throughout the entire country. When you've been around this country, you get to see what a beautiful country we live in.
You are so right, Rernard. :)
What a lovely Sunday drive, thanks. Brings me back to when I was a child in Colorado, often we would just get in the car and go. Just staring out the window…..
Absolutely loving riding along 😊 I’m a Colorado baby - I think the mountains are in my blood no matter where else I live - this is beautiful!
I plan on moving to Colorado for work! I’m from N.H. and Maine so I’m used to mountains and lots of trees i just don’t want to go out there and be disappointed that it’s all like Utah and Wyoming like are there rural areas with lots of tree and scenery?
Yes indeed a beautiful ride in Colorado Mr. Spoda, thank you!
You drove through my hometown of Cañon City. Nice place to grow up in the 90's
Thanks for taking me home for a few minutes. I miss those mountains so much...
Colorado is absolutely beautiful. I spent a little over a decade in Colorado total. Lived in Denver wished I lived in every town we went to. Hartsel was a good area for me to do fly fishing. I love your videos and you should a lot visiting downtowns and driving around the area. thank you
Great concept video. Cool music too.
Alma was a really neat town. Old West!
Absolutely Beautiful thank you for sharing ❤
I really miss Colorado. Thank you very much, Lord Spoda.
All hail Lord Spoda! Great shots, I'm from Littleton, CO and this reminds me of driving through the mountains!
These are my favorite videos - just great music and beautiful scenery.
THAT WAS NEAT! you got me on that one. yup, i am subbing. that was a joy to watch. thank you.
Awesome, David. I'm glad you're here. :)
I lived in Colorado for 58 years and have traveled all of those roads many times. Lots of great 4 wheeling roads all throughout Colorado also.
I'm late this vid but I loved it! I used to drive this route often a decade ago. So beautiful, and so much to stop and see along the way!
This is one my favorite videos you’ve ever done. The music and the views were perfect. Just gave me ideas for a road trip!
Thank you, Montrez!
This was a wonderful drive, many thanks for sharing! Glad you detoured off Hwy 50 along Cañon City's lovely old Main Street. So many travelers miss this historic gem, and it's well worth stopping to have a look around.
Canon City does have a really nice downtown. I was impressed. 😀
Son lived in Dillon and Breck for 8 years, this is taking me back, I visited often and we took many roadtrips.
Wow! If i ever move away from Missouri it will have to be Colorado, so gorgeous. Thank you for this vid.
Another great video! Another great music choice! I’ve never been to Colorado. Thanks for sharing its beauty.
Thank you for the kind words, Mark.
My son lives in Florence just outside of Canon City. We love the drive up to Breckinridge. You guys missed the Royal Gorge!
Fantastic video, the background music really set the mood and atmospheric feel for the tour. Great job. The first half looked so like The Swiss alps and parts of Austria. I was half expecting the Von Trapp family to start singing 😂 the second half “Brand USA” kicked in, loved all those old farming shacks, and the Wild West style towns. Thanks for the tour.
Thank you, Rowie. :)
Wow what a beautiful place ! Thanks for sharing Lord Spoda 👍
Thoroughly impressed with the video.
Thx Mr. Soda.
Years ago in the car business we used to hear the claim "My husband was spoda pay dat." Ahh those were the days.
What a great video. A relaxing drive with a relaxing soundtrack.
Thanks for sharing. It's great " visiting" places I'll probably never get to actually see.Greetings from Australia.
Thank you for watching, Richard! :)
Ugh! You were so close to one of the best vistas in Colorado. Hardscrabble Pass going in to Westcliffe. Jaw dropping. Drove for a statewide car service here in Colorado for 6 years. Very familiar with all those roads. Much more fun in winter 😆 Guffey, CO appoints a cat as their mayor. LOL, named my last cat Guffey. We had a regular passenger in Guffey where to get to his house, you actually turned in to a cow pasture. The road opened up the further you went. Some crazy driving in the high country. Too bad I can't post a pic of the road to another customer's house. The road was like straight down. BTW, we ran with all four tires studded in winter.
Love your video. Nice to see all the small older Citys. Love from Norway.
Thank you for watching, Jorunn. :)
Good morning Mr.Spoda.My respect for your great staged vlog.The pictures are impressing in connection with the well choosen music.Some roads you show, I've seen with my own eyes travelling through the USA in the last years. It's a fun to sit in Germany in the evening in the livingroom viewing your vlog and wallow in memories. Greatings from a German fan. 👍🇺🇸🇩🇪
Cool drive. Beautiful views and no traffic! 😍
Bishop's Castle. You really missed it on this one. I realize that you can't hit everything, but it is a must see in that area. You were so close! Just south of Canon City, near Rye. Look it up. It is one of a kind in the world.
I lived in Colorado Springs from 1972-'74, and there's a part of me that yearns to return after seeing this.
thank you so very much for giving me an insight into the united states a country il probably never get to see due to financile constraints thank you both take care love fron south wales uk
Wow, you're welcome, Ken. We're just getting started!
Love your videos. Great choice in music for traveling. My Sunday drive from my living room. 😊
That is awesome. :)
Enjoyed beautiful drive. I loved the mountains but, as a Fl gal, lived on the gulf.
I've driven every inch of the video in my 70 years many times, and way lot more by far. There isn't a hiway in Colorado that I haven't driven, and countless back roads. Oh the stories I can tell.
I bet!! :)
Brilliant as always.
One town you went through, Fairplay, is in an area known as South Park. That town is the model for the town in the cartoon series “South Park.”
Cool, lol. We were wondering if that was the case! :)
Wow I love in steamboat that ls for sharing
That was an awesome drive. .. Very relaxing.
Beautiful State....
Hi Lord Spoda
Thanks for the beautiful video.
Most scenic, most picturesque drive dotted with small towns. Music is very soothing matching with the ambiance. What's that collection of stuff on way, contrasting the natural surrounding?
Love my homestate it is so beautiful here but unfortunately there is to many people living here now reach resulted in the increase of rent and lack of affordable housing. Alma is the highest town in America and Leadville is the highest city in America.
A whole lot different than driving thru Texas. Thank you!
You left the main road in both Fairplay and Guffey (great names) because you sensed they both had special character. Thanks for that. Amused by the gigantic sign atop the roof of the two story hotel in Fairplay and likely, myself, would have bought a T-shirt of Guffey at the "antiques" emporium that dominated the town's center. (You may not have seen the small sign advertising them but your viewers miss no detail!)
LOL, thanks David, And you're absolutely correct. I saw Guffey on the map and initially passed it by, but for some reason I felt like I needed to turn back and see the town. It did not disappoint - that was a crazy place. :)
The drive through Alma was pretty cool. It’s like an American version of Bruge in Belgium; an old town frozen in time that’s been kept up fairly well. You should visit there when you get the chance, or watch the the movie In Bruge which captures the appeal and non-appeal of the town.
I would like to visit Bruge, mostly because of the movie. It was great, and Brendan Gleason is one of my very favorite actors.
I don't remember the movie "Bruge" but I did visit there in 1980. Back then they still had elderly women in small shops 'tatting' for the tourists, and there were a lot of (geese, I think?) in the river. But yeah, I did love the town.
Oh, absolutely breathtaking, thank you! A lot of the time you don't get a sense of how actually steep these mountain grades are, but outside of Breckinridge you really captured it. About the only place in the US I haven't travelled is beautiful Colorado (outside Denver and the Front Range) so I've made up my mind I MUST go out there soon and one of the things I must do is travel that route you took in this video! PS: Guffey is SOME kind of town! Did one guy own all those 'antique' shops? I feel bad for the guy who got stuck in that antique CocaCola machine!😁
Love it...love it...where'd it go?!
You didn't stop to see "RIF"?, LOL I always remember that commercial from the 70's stating they're headquarters were in Pueblo Colorado.
If I remember correctly it was a mobile book store,that gave away free books to underprivileged children in low income areas.
Anyway ,again thank you for sharing. God bless you guys❤️
Thank you for this!
You know, I oftentimes wonder why some towns are so close together (relatively speaking, of course). I was told once is that is because they're historically spaced one's day travel on a horse.
I don't know if that's true or not, but it is something to chew on when you're traveling.
That is some want true for most of the small towns built around mining!
Some towns were also built the exact distance apart for a steam locomotive to reload coal. Or so I've read.
I really wish you hadn't driven through our "once" beautiful state, there are already too many people moving to Colorado ruined what we once prided ourselves with! Believe me when I tell you that the Colorado native people hate that people are ruining our state!
I'd like to respectfully request you include highway signs for the towns and miles to, and for the rivers and creeks too. I like to see as many travel details as I can. Thank you. Can't wait to see what you do to Salina, Kansas.
Well, that was nice 😎 Colorado is a very pretty State. They just need to work out their water issues. Nice little drive-by guys.
Beautiful countrysides
I may have missed it, but did you go to Estes Park? It is amazing.
Nice ride. I always think what it was like for the American Indians that been here 15000 years ago. Did it look the same
Beautiful trip. I was born in Colorado and haven't been back in years.
I love the music. Who does the music?
The music is by Unicorn Heads, and is called "Light Expanse". It's music they've made available for UA-cam creators. I've used quite a bit of their stuff. That is their music in the "A Drive Across Desolate Wyoming" video...that one is called "Stellar Wind".
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip just because a place does not have a lot of people or buildings does not mean it is "desolate"--how about "wild" "austere" "unspoiled"--that is Wyoming
Wyoming is the most sparsely populated state in the country and is the very definition of desolate. That doesn't mean there's anything wrong with it - in fact, the opposite.
Love it.
Are you doing the San Juan skyline pass between Ouray and Silverado to Durango?
Had no idea that Canon (Canyon?) City was so big and so beautiful...I always thought it was just a one-horse town with a million prisons 😁😉!
Anyway, thanks for the tour!
It was beautiful!
If you want to see some fascinating rural slums you have to drive through the San Luis Valley on 285.
“All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.”
― Jack Kerouac,
I've been watching all your videos since I found your channel. Great stuff! I'm curious how many miles you have logged since you started on this quest?
We're at 47,000 right now. The country is about 3,000 miles across so we've driven the length of it almost 16 times!
Just a suggestion....on these driving videos, where you are just cruising through areas, it would be cool if you had informational text running after you show the name of the town. Maybe with information like population, income level, average age, crime rate, average home prices, etc. Thanks for taking us all along in your travels. Stay safe, my friend.
It's a good suggestion, Rench, and I have been doing that in my newer videos. :)
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip 👍
The epitome of one man's junk (no, not that junk) is another man's treasure...
What a strange place for a stoplight, in the middle of nowhere!
Not the most attractive of drives you've taken us on, but I guess they can't all be winners!
Canon City looked interesting.
Really enjoy your videos. Where do small town people buy groceries?
They usually have small local markets or they drive like an hour to Walmart.
What James said. And on those trips they load up weeks or even months worth of products.
I remember driving into Canon City one time from the east and there along the road was a coyote cleaning itself like it didn't have a care in the world...
Alma is the location of the Highest Court In The United State...Municipal Court at 10,361 Feet!
That's right!
Whan you coming to Colorado Springs? We'll buy you guys a beer.
Guffey looks good.
US 40 to CO 9 to US 50 southbound.
You need to look at Bishops Castle !
Could I interest you in a rudux of Colorado? the eastern plains have a plethora of dying towns.
Stop sign? What stop sign?
Did you get toLeadville?
If you go to Trinidad Colorado check out grandma's house..have some sexy pizza..talk to the lady at the tire store ,she is a interesting person.
I will for sure! :)
Nice drive, now try the other side of the divide. From say Montrose to Durango..............
We will be.
I ment Mr Spoda
Purdy country
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Why aren't you narrating this video, I would like to know what highways you were on, what towns you went through, what direction you were traveling etc. The scenery is beautiful but I have no idea how to follow your path which I would like to do.
I'm going to switch to narrating.
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Would rather hear you narrate, not that music crap.
The music junked another video 👎👎👎👎💩💩😬
Thumbs down for nauseating music.