Mountains and Majestic Scenery

 With this post I'm pretty much finishing up blogging about our ten day vacation out to Colorado.  I've saved some of the best pictures and scenery for this blog. Let's start off with a few mountains:
 

 

The Royal Gorge Bridge & Park is an amazing please with some incredible views. It is located in Canon City, Colorado and was built in 1929. The bridge that we walked over is suspended 956 feet above the Arkansas River. You can go over it in one of these red gondola's, but I was not going to. Everyone else would have made the trip, including three dogs who would have passed on it to if they knew where they were headed.  Fortunately, or unfortunately, the wind picked up and they said it wasn't safe, which of course I knew after one quick look at it. Everyone had to walk back over the bridge instead of the easy way on the gondolas.

Red Rocks Park& Amphitheatre is located in Morrison Colorado and it is one of the best know places in Colorado.  It opened in 1941 and it does not look like it is 81 years old. Built out of the rock surrounding it, this is a very popular place for concerts. The top row is 6,450 feet above sea level in case you were wondering. It is estimated that the surrounding rock took 200 million years to form.  One of the most famous concerts here was on August 26th 1964, almost exactly 58 years ago.  The Beatles performed here on their American tour and this was the only concert that did not sell out.  The mountains here are very large and what a view!

The Garden of the Gods is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado.  This is an amazing photograph and if you are wondering how could I have taken it, well, I got it off the computer because it is really great.

The Garden of Gods is a collection of red rocks that dominate the 1,334 acre park that has two million visitors a year from around the world.  How did it get it's name?  Legend has it that two land surveyors 

in 1859 saw the formations and said, "This would be a capital place for a beer garden." The other one said, "Beer garden? This is a place fit for the Gods too assemble. We'll call it the Garden of the Gods."

This below picture has an unusual explanation. They call this part "Kissing camels", because in the middle on top it looks like camels kissing.  I can see the side on the left, but the right one I'm not buying into it.  Just outside the park is a housing development called, "Kissing Camels." I'm not buying into it either. I can just hear someone asking, "Where do you live?" I'm not saying I live in Kissing Camels, although it does have some incredible views.

One final amazing site came in St. Louis, yes, St. Louis, Missouri. The St. Louis Arch really doesn't compare to mountains, but it is a site to behold.  The 630 ft. high monument is 57 years old. It was dedicated to The American People and it memorializes the Western Expansion of The United States. It is the tallest arch in the word and it is surrounded by a very large park that was beautiful to walk through. Below, I am pointing to it and saying, "Yes, it's an arch, not an ark." (I once misspoke to a rider and called it an ark) The second picture is really unusual since it looks like a building that is vertical, but I got it at a different angle.