Southern Colorado lake

Taking the Highway to Hell

Into Mormon Country



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We visited Zion National Park in the beginning of July 2002.  This was our first real family vacation we had ever taken. 

Since this was going to be our last summer in Colorado, we decided to take a road trip from Denver down through the Sangro De Christo (The Blood of Christ) Mountains of southern Colorado.  We swung through Durango and into the southwest tip of Utah.

Holey Cross Abbey - Canon City, Colorado

We stopped in Canon City, a place I had been three times before to white water raft the Arkansas River (Class 3, 4 and a single 5 rapids).  The raft trip went below the Royal Gorge Bridge, a bridge spanning a thousand foot deep gorge.  We pulled into Canon City and saw an unbelievable church called the Holy Cross Abbey, with architecture you don't usually see out in the desert.

Sangro De Christo Mountains - Southern Colorado

After Canon City, we turned more westwardly, heading into the Sangro de Christo (The Blood of Christ) Mountains.  It would have been nice to see this gorgeous range with some snow on them, but they were still beautiful to drive through.

Highway 666 sign going west into Utah

The Sangro de Christo range is the southern most edge of the Colorado Rocky Mountains.  The gigantic fires in Arizona and Colorado made most of the views very hazy, but it was well worth the trip to see something we never got to see again.

Later that night, we hopped from the main road we wound through the mountains on and hopped onto Highway 666. 

Jesus Saves Sign just off Highway 666

Taking the highway to hell into Mormon country! 

At the intersection of Highway 666 and the highway we were le aving is a house proclaiming boldly on two different billboards to turn away from the number of beast and all its entrappings. 

I don't remember much after throwing my head out and howling at the top of my lungs as we burned fire from our tailpipe and proceeded into the den of inequity known as Utah.

Jesus Saves just off Highway 666 

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