Blanco Basin and Castle Creek Roads

 

Blanco Basin and Castle Creek Roads

Another day in Pagosa Springs, we took another drive to explore the countryside via more back roads.  We began on Blanco Basin Road, and then explored a sort of cut-off road off of Blanco Basin, Castle Creek Road.

On Blanco Basin Road, we saw some wildlife and some “not so wild life”, mainly cattle!!  The deer (there were about 4-5) seemed surprised to see us, and for whatever reason, decided we were interesting enough to check out vs. run and hide in the forest!

Along the road were some lovely little vignettes, like this one with the daisies and the very rustic wood fence.  There is something in the simplicity of these types of scenes that really helps to provide some calm in these unsettling times.  The image shown below was also quite the peaceful scene, and a sort of hidden treasure.

We also saw some interesting trees or growths on trees.  I do like the aspens, seeming to be reaching as high as they could to try to touch the mountain tops.  And, the burl in the tree on the left was absolutely huge!!  I’ve seen interesting things made from burls, like wood tables, but then, the tree would need to be killed.  So, I’m just as happy to enjoy the burl this way!

Castle Creek Road was a great little dirt back road.  I know the image makes it look like it’s completely deserted, but there were homes all along both of the roads.  There were just some very nice quiet country road moments, too!

And, at the end of Castle Creek Road, we came to Castle Creek!  It was a lovely little rushing creek, and there also was a trail head that took off from this point, into the forest and up the mountain.  It didn’t look all that well traveled, but if one wanted to really get away from things, then this would be just the ticket!

There were wildflowers around, too, if one took the time to look for them.  The one on the left was right by the creek, but the other ones could be easy to miss, kind of hidden in plain sight by the trees just behind them.

As we drove back down  Castle Creek Road, we had a lovely view of the homes and ranches that were off of Blanco Basin Road.  It’s kind of hard to seem them, but that’s the beauty of living in this area.  The neighbors aren’t too close!

Back down the road from which we came, heading back to our campsite and our home away from home!!

Enjoy!!