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Friday, June 29, 2012

postheadericon Cheri June-29-12

10:24 PM | Posted by Sharp's Travels

We planned on beginning our day’s journey by heading for Crested Butte.  It is about 35 miles from here.  


The town was incorporated in 1880.  Crested Butte served as a supply center for the outlying mining camps.  Coal was discovered in 1880, which sustained the town.  The last mine closed in 1952 and people started buying summer homes there from the old miners.  Development of the ski area in 1962 marked the beginning of Crested Butte’s rebirth.


Many buildings from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s still stand today.  Crested Butte was designated a Registered National Historic District in 1972.  All of the old buildings gave us a feeling of stepping back in time.  We spent 2 hours there checking out the galleries, jewelry and pottery shops etc.  We saw so many unique items.  It is a big artist community.


We also visited the Montanya Distillers.  They make high-mountain Rum.  The distillery and tasting room was located in a 100 yr-old historic Powerhouse there in Crested butte.  They make 2 different rums and they have only 4 ingredients, all natural, all US-sourced: mountain spring water, Maui sugarcane, yeast and a tiny touch of Colorado Mountain Honey at bottling time.  It was a very neat place and the rum was excellent.


We stopped for lunch at Maxwell’s Steakhouse located on down the street.  What a great atmosphere.  We loved the huge fireplace with the mountain lion on the mantel.  Our food was excellent.  We were so happy we picked Manwell’s.


We headed out of Crested Butte towards Paonia.  Once again we are on dirt roads, but this time they are solid packed roads.  We climbed to Kebler Pass.  We had lots of beautiful views again today.  As we headed down the other side of Kebler Pass we drove through the Aspen groves.  It was just beautiful.  The road was very windy and Gay loves driving the motorcycle on these kinds of roads.  It was open range up there so we had to be careful of all the cattle on the road.


In all, we did a 167 mile loop back to the 5th wheel.  It was a day that made your heart swell to see the beauty of this great country.




To see pictures of the day click on this link https://picasaweb.google.com/sharpstravels then click on album: Crested Butte Loop Ride.

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