{"id":7030,"date":"2022-07-19T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=7030"},"modified":"2022-07-19T20:09:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T20:09:15","slug":"buena-vista-co-views-of-several-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=7030","title":{"rendered":"Buena Vista CO &#8211; views of several mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We stayed for a week in Buena Vista CO, which is known for the closeness of several 14,000 ft mountains as well as the Arkansas River with lots of rapids.&nbsp; We took a drive up to Cottonwood Pass one day, which is at the continental divide at 12,126ft.&nbsp; Wow, I could barely breathe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The drive up was beautiful, lots of fir and aspens and several lakes.&nbsp; Lots of people have cabins up there and they looked just like you would imagine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also drove along the Arkansas River on the outskirts of town.&nbsp; There is a dirt road with several campgrounds and places to launch river rafts.&nbsp; We saw some people rafting down the river which has several rapids.&nbsp; We also drove through a series of tunnels that were wide enough for one vehicle at a time only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole area is beautiful!&nbsp; Here are some pictures:<\/p>\n\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" scoped>.rbs_gallery_69e5b0fca815eSpinner{\r\n\t\t\t\tmargin: 50px auto;\r\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50px;\r\n\t\t\t\theight: 40px;\r\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\r\n\t\t\t\tfont-size: 10px;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t.rbs_gallery_69e5b0fca815eSpinner > div{\r\n\t\t\t  background-color: #333;\r\n\t\t\t  height: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t  width: 6px;\r\n\t\t\t  display: inline-block;\r\n\t\t\t  -webkit-animation: rbs_gallery_69e5b0fca815e-stretchdelay 1.2s infinite ease-in-out;\r\n\t\t\t  animation: rbs_gallery_69e5b0fca815e-stretchdelay 1.2s infinite ease-in-out;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t.rbs_gallery_69e5b0fca815eSpinner .rbs_gallery_69e5b0fca815eRect2 {\r\n\t\t\t  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The drive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=7030\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Buena Vista CO &#8211; views of several mountains<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-182-buena-vista-co"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7031,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030\/revisions\/7031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}