Colorado question for old timers...

[buffalobo]

I was just thinking about a picture of me and my brother from 1974 sitting in the old St Elmo fire truck which was converted dodge military truck. Afterwards, my dad took us over Tin cup in a Wagoner. We didn't see another person the entire trip. I up there about 3 years ago and couldn't believe the number of people and the UTV traffic

Cottonwood pass? Back in the 70's it was rugged. Nicely paved now. Wish it wasnt.

[Not_A_Llama]

Google Earth is a better resource for pulling up historical imagery than Google Maps.

Also: https://www.historicaerials.com/viewer
Also also: https://landlook.usgs.gov/viewer.html

[roberth]

Call me hypocritical (I don't care), but I am not a big fan of ATVs and dirt bikes. Every place you go you get to hear the continuous 2-cycle chorus, and I don't know how many times I have been crawling along a jeep trail and almost gotten a gaudy plastic cladded hood ornament. The buffoons think it's their own personal dirt track.

There are many place here in CO that I visited as a kid where the density of other people was so low you were actually excited to see somebody else. Now, the same spots are practically unusable, necessitating shuttle buses to transport people to the area from remote parking.

You're not alone in your sentiment.

Maroon Bells comes to mind, I remember parking near the lake, now you have to take a bus up there, RMNP is getting the same way.

Too many fucking people smoking their dope and cigarettes, throwing their trash all over the place.

Cottonwood pass? Back in the 70's it was rugged. Nicely paved now. Wish it wasnt.

I HATE that they paved it, it was way better when it was dirt. I remember seeing a couple of mooseses in a pond along the road back in the day.

[buffalobo]

The ponds on Cottonwood and around Goldcup were good fishing 40yrs ago.

[Holger Danske]

The ponds on Cottonwood and around Goldcup were good fishing 40yrs ago.

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