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August 3, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hello, Hello! As I write this post, we are enjoying our second day at our most beloved campground, Priest Gulch, between Dolores and Telluride, Colorado. I’ll have more to share about that soon, I’m sure. But first, let’s get caught up on our last couple of weeks which were spent in Ridgeway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We love the Ridgeway, Colorado area. We’ve been there a few times before. It’s probably the most picturesque place we have stayed at from a dramatic mountain scenery everywhere you look stand point. We stayed again at the Ridgeway State Park – this is a really nice state park, the RV sites are generously sized and it has lots of walking paths, a river, a couple of fishing ponds, a big reservoir for boating. And it’s a good base camp for all the hiking and sight seeing the area has to offer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ridgeway is also where the John Wayne movie, “True Grit” was filmed in the late 1960s. There’s still several buildings in town that were featured in the movie, and we actually hiked right through where most of the “landscape” scenes were filmed, where they were riding through the mountains and countryside. Of course, we watched the movie while there and it was pretty cool recognizing locations and knowing we were there too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I took this photo out of the window of the truck while Steve was driving … this is the view from the state park where we stayed and on the way into the small town of Ridgeway. I know it’s not a great photo but it gives you an idea of what I mean by the dramatic scenery all around – this was our daily view. Not too bad! This is why we keep coming back to southwest Colorado!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We again visited the very pretty town of Ouray – they call it the “Switzerland of America” and it’s clear why – it’s literally surrounded by tall mountains and has a lot of German or Swiss architecture. I’ve included pictures below of Ouray, but as usual, it’s impossible to capture in pictures what it really looks like. We really enjoy being tourists for a day in these cute little mountain towns. Breakfast at a nice cafe or coffee shop, shopping, exploring. A great day as far as we’re concerned \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another favorite spot we always visit in the area is the Orvis Hot Springs. There’s several hot springs in the area, but this one is our favorite. It’s been there for something like 90 years, has beautiful gardens and landscaping all around several natural pools made of stone and rocks. It’s also clothing optional – and for some reason I find soaking in the hot springs “in the buff” really great! Steve still hasn’t tried it without his swim trunks, I don’t think he realizes what he’s missing… I surprised myself a few years ago when I gave it a try and have been a convert ever since! So there’s a secret out in the open now!! \ud83d\ude01<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And of course we have been hiking! We returned to a few favorite trails in the area and they did not disappoint! Many pictures from our hikes in the photos below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So now we’re all caught up! We moved to Priest Gulch on August 1st, and we’ll be here until September 1st. I can’t wait to share our adventures here soon – meanwhile, enjoy the pictures and videos and please call or text us! We love hearing from you all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hiking around Ridgeway, Colorado:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ouray, Colorado:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Videos from the area:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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August 3, 2025 Hello, Hello! As I write this post, we are enjoying our second day at our most beloved campground, Priest Gulch, between Dolores and Telluride, Colorado. I’ll have more to share about that soon, I’m sure. But first, let’s get caught up on our last couple of weeks which were spent in Ridgeway. … Continue reading Ridgeway, Colorado<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}