Need a scenic drive Monday

[theirishavenger]

Hey guys n gals,

Looking for a scenic drive I can take the wife on Monday for part of her Mother's Day present. Prefer it to be north of the I-70 corridor or south of Red Feather Lakes, with some abandoned buildings or waterfalls or stream crossings, but an easy drive and not challenging 4x4-wise. A dirt road or two rutted trail would be perfect. We might stop in the middle and picnic for lunch.

Anybody got any suggestions? :beer:


Chris

[OdiN]

Sevenmile trail perhaps.

It's up in the Poudre Canyon right by Rustic/Glen Echo off Hwy 14.

It's an easy trail with a few small water crossings...really small. There is an old mine on a spur that dead ends near the beginning. You can go left or right not far in, right will take you to the mine. There is another left/right decision but you'll see the mine up to the right. Left gets you back on the main trail through a small water crossing. There is one rocky part which will need a good line for stock vehicles. I ran it in my stock 04 Xterra - hit my side rails but that's all. After that, it's an easy trail. There is an abandoned/old homestead type cabin up there too. I would turn around after you get to the second larger clearing area if you go (also good picnic spot) - I think that's after the cabin. After that, there still could be a lot of snow, but I don't know. Ran it with a friend about a month ago and we got a bit stuck so got out and turned around at that point.

Anyway don't know if that's more than you wanted, but check out the trail on traildamage.com.

[theirishavenger]

Yeah, we camped up near there last summer. Thought that might be pretty high on the list for Monday. I also was almost open to Guanella Pass, but that's almost too much of a drive from Greeley.

[OdiN]

Oh....I didn't realize where you were. I live in Greeley.

[cj7cramer]

A couple of just ran sevenmile this morning. We made it all the way without a problem. My buddy was rollin' in a stock '03 Wrangler with street tires. A little rear bumper rash and a couple diff dings but not much of a problem for him. Came out at Old Swamp Lady :D. I love that sign.

[RJsfun]

Guanella is still closed anyway, along with most anything that approaches 10,000 feet.
I was also going to suggest something up Poudre. Have fun and happy Mom's day.