The Wheels on the Bus go round and round, round and round, round and round. : Grand Mesa, Colorado

Crossing over Blue Mesa Dam

Pioneer Point

If you can't have fresh hot pizza for your birthday lunch leftover pizza is second best

Hermit's Rest Overlook and Trailhead

Morrow Point Dam

Birthday dinner at the one and only restaurant in Mesa, Colorado

Wagon Wheel Restaurant

Western Colorado's Grand Mesa is the world’s largest flat-top mountain, bursting with over 300 lakes sprawled across 500 square miles of striking terrain.

Anderson Reservoir #2

Anderson Reservoir #1 & #2

Land's End Observatory is an old ranger observatory on the edge of Colorado's highest mesa, the Grand Mesa, 10,500 feet above sea level. Built in 1936-37 the observatory reflects the rustic style found in buildings throughout the national parks and forests. While the observatory is no longer in use, it is still a popular place to visit and enjoy the views. Looking one direction, you can see the Book Cliffs and out into Utah. Looking the other direction, you can see the San Juan Mountains and the Uncompahgre Wilderness.

Land's End Road was once known as the Veterans' Road. When the Great Depression left many World War I veterans unemployed, President Roosevelt responded by opening the already created Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to include them. Thus, between June 1933 and May 1934, the 200 veterans who were brought to Land's End camp completed 9.2 miles of road. They were paid a dollar a day for their work. They lived in army tents roughly eleven miles below the mesa rim while clearing the

brush for the road. Land's End Road descends as an all-gravel road from the observatory down to

U.S. Route 50.

This camp was occupied during the summer months from the 1930s until 1966 by the Raber family of Kannah Creek as part of their cattle ranching operation.

Eggleston Lake

Atkinson Reservoir

Lunch at Bonham Reservoir

Currier Reservoir

Long Slough Road

Looks like a China doll

The note reads " Please keep door closed so cows won't come in.

Thank you, Bull Creek Reservoir Company"

Jumbo Reservoir

Crag Crest Trailhead

Someone got service

Lunch overlooking Little Gem Reservoir

Island Lake

Cedaredge Overlook

Collbran is, quite literally, at the end of the road — Hwy 330, that is. Incorporated in 1908 Collbran's downtown consists of little more than a handful of restaurants, plus a grocery and hardware store.

The American Servicewomen's Memorial was the first monument constructed in the US to honor servicewomen. Yes, in Collbran Colorado! The project was completed in 1976.