North Clear Creek Falls is the most photographed falls in the area. I had taken some photos earlier from across the river (creek?) due to the visitor's area being closed and was not happy with them so we went back and walked below the closed area for these photos (left and below).
This is another much photographed falls (this one due to its being on the road from Wolf Creek Pass to Pagosa Springs). A short walk off the road gives you this view of the falls and a longer walk allows you to walk right up to the falls.
The lure of mountain flowers made us make a trip over to Lake City and the Visitor's Center to find out if our truck would make it up to American Basin to see what is advertised as the most beautiful flowers in the Colorado Mountains. They assured us we would be ok as long as we did not attempt to cross on over Cinammon Pass so we headed out. The views were magnificent but Becky has no kind words for the man advising us!! She covered the windows to avoid seeing the dropoff until I could find a place to turn around and get back down. Maybe next time in a jeep!
This is the widest portion of the road and also the smoothest. Large rocks (boulders?) did not make the road a comfortable choice for our truck.
Back down off the mountain road and out into a valley. Some of the views are 'bigger' than others due to either there being a large valley or your being right up on 'top of the world'. Here a large valley gives you views of the mountains in the distance.
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