Bicycling Montana, Wyoming,
Colorado and New Mexico - 2006

Granby to Kremmling, CO - Rest Day

June 23, 2006
Distance 29.3 Miles
Climbing Elevation: 415 feet

After a great do nothing rest day we left Granby and headed west to Kremmling. It was almost like having another rest day because it was almost all downhill with very little wind. After traveling about 9 miles we stopped at Hot Sulfur Springs, because we saw a museum sign. We turned in at the gate and found that the museum would not open for another 15 minutes. As we waited, we looked at some old Denver and Rio Grande railroad cars.

When the museum opened, we paid our fee and spent more than an hour at the museum. They had a great display of how the Moffat Tunnel on the Denver and Rio Grande railroad was built. This tunnel is the second longest tunnel in the United States, was completed in 1912 and is still in use today by the Union Pacific Railroad and Amtrak.

We left Hot Sulfur Springs and immediately entered into a very beautiful canyon. The railroad was on one side of the canyon and the road on the other side with the Colorado River between the railroad and road.

We came out of the canyon and were again in country that reminded us of Wyoming, sagebrush and grass and nothing else unless water was present. We reached Kremmling in record time and found that we would not be able to get a motel room for a couple of hours. We ate lunch and looked at the scenery surrounding Kremmling.

We watched an Amtrak train in the distance traveling west. While we were waiting, Mary Kay saw an advertisement for a train ride in Leadville, looked at our maps and decided that we should change our route and take our next rest day in Leadville instead of Frisco.

Once again we did laundry, ate dinner, picked up our stuff and organized our maps for the next couple of days.