Dubbed “A Thrilling Drive to a Spectacular View,” we ventured out to the Skyline Drive on Thursday evening. They say, “Drive your passenger car on a road that ascends and follows the top of a high razorback ridge overlooking Cañon City.” And so we did. We made it to the top of the one-way, no-shoulder, treacherous Skyline Drive.

 

“The 2.8-mile Skyline Drive sits above Cañon City west of Pueblo. Scenic views of the mountains and lush greenery surround this tight one-way road, but don’t take your eyes off the route—the narrow, rollercoaster-like corridor is a breathtaking, adventurous ride.”

 

What goes up, must come down. I’m glad I wasn’t driving. But we definitely enjoyed our journey on the Skyline Drive.

 

 

What a gorgeous day and setting for a Saturday morning market. Welcome to Cañon City!

 

Fun sightings in Cañon City: a cool mural on the side of a building and a Big Boy statue (in front of an auto repair shop and not a restaurant). And at the local Safeway: When the automatic doors don’t work, you find a door stop…in this case a really big rock door stop.

 

There are 81 buildings included in Cañon City’s Downtown Historic District that put it on the National Register. “The period of development, quality of design and construction, scale and number erected, reflect the town’s growth as a prosperous regional trading center between 1870 and 1930.”

     1. The First United Methodist church, built in 1899, has beautiful copper steeples and roof.

     2. “The Cañon City Municipal Building was built in 1927. The two-story brick Moderne-style building with an H-shaped plan is the current home of the Royal Gorge Regional Museum and History Center. It was originally built as a government building for the city.”

     3. Love the shape of this building and the roofline! It’s now an AT&T store. I think it used to be a bank building before that.

 

There is a large dinosaur presence in Cañon City: statues at the Municipal Building, a museum-like place called Dinosaur Experience, Garden Park Fossil Area, and more. Turns out, “Cañon City, Colorado is one of the most well-known fossil areas in the U.S. Packed full of prehistoric history, fossils, and insight as to the creatures that roamed this region of Colorado millions of years ago.”