Telluride Area Activities

Silverton is an hour or so away from Telluride.  You can make the journey on paved highways or over the unpaved Ophir mountain pass.  I recommend Ophir Pass if you have the time, a high-clearance vehicle and a sense of adventure.

Once in Silverton, you will find a quaint Colorado mountain town.  You will also find the train depot for the Durango-Silverton steam train.  It is the genuine article, not a Disneyland reproduction.  Although refurbished, it is essentially the same train that was running on mountain track decades-and-decades ago.

It is a 3-hour train ride one-way.  You can take the train roundtrip or return on a bus which is also somewhat vintage.

You will have a variety of passenger cars to chose from.  The higher the ticket price, the nicer the car.  One thing is the same — the spectacular views.  Much of the train ride follows the Animas River.

As the track clings to the edge of hundred-foot cliffs, you wonder how many years and how many lives it took to build this railroad.  The “why” is the movement of mined rock for the extraction of precious metals.  My jaw dropped when I learned that it took just 9-months of construction including winter months to build this track.  One-life was lost.

The plastic glasses on the passenger above are not those of an Italian tourist.  They are recommended to protect against the cinders and ashes thrown into the air by a real steam locomotive.

Summertime in the Rockies is Grand!

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