My sister Susan and I drove up to Georgetown, Colorado this past Sunday afternoon, and from there headed up Guanella Pass to admire the Aspen trees, which are now at their peak color. This is a very popular route for "leaf peeping," as they call it, and the day before, someone trying to maneuver their car past illegally parked cars along the side of the road wound up putting it on its side, blocking the road in both directions and causing an hours-long traffic jam. On the bright side, it gave everyone a chance to sit back, relax, and enjoy the fall colors. It sounded very restful. But in any case, there were no such incidents on Sunday, thank goodness. The Guanella Pass Road goes 25 miles from Georgetown to Grant, where it meets up with US 285, which takes you back to Denver, but we turned around at the Guanella Pass Nature Area and headed back home. Things to do, places to go, as usual.
Georgetown is a nice place to visit. It was settled in 1859 and became the center of silver mining in the state during the 1880s. The population reached 10,000 before the silver market collapse, and it currently has only around 1,100 permanent residents. However, the downtown area is very much like it was back in its heyday, as seen in the photo on the right, and there are wonderful Victorian-era homes everywhere you look. Thanks to its Old West atmosphere, a number of movies have been filmed here, and it is a popular destination at Christmas. However, if you decide to head there around then, just make sure the weather is good, or you might wind up with your car on its side, too. That would not be very Christmasy.
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