Picket Wire Canyonlands Guided Auto Tour

October 16, 2021 my friend James and I drove East into the rising Sun to La Junta, Colorado to join in one of the auto tours presented by the U.S. Forest Service. The full day tour is the title of this post and you can learn more about it by clicking here. The canyonlands are located on the Comanche National Grassland some distance South of La Junta on Highway 109. Participating in the tour requires a high clearance four wheel drive vehicle – and they aren’t kidding about that. We drove in on a very clear dry day and it…

October 16, 2021

Check out last year’s walk on this day! Today’s outing took me to the Comanche National Grassland area near La Junta Colorado. My friend James and I took a guided driving tour of the Picketwire Canyon area. I took a lot of photos and will be making a more complete post in the near future. The featured image above was taken on the Purgatoire River at a famous location where there are many preserved dinosaur tracks to be seen. Gear: Panasonic Lumix GH4, Olympus Zuiko Digital 14-54mm