BLACK CANYON

Today Jim and Kathe left me home here in the dog patch RV resort while they went exploring in the Black Canyon National Park. We have stayed in worse places, but this one is on the second or third page of places we would stay again. The only redeeming grace is the close proximity to the Black Canyon and the Russell Stover candy factory.

Black Canyon is a breathtaking, awe inspiring granite masterpiece. The dark canyon walls plunge 2,700 feet to the Gunnison River below. A geological event known as the Gunnison Uplift raised the canyon rock from deep within the earth. Two million years ago the Gunnison River carved the canyon, cutting through the uplift core eventually forming the deep canyon bottom. Pictures cannot show the spectacular views at each of the pullouts along the South rim. After traveling the entire rim, they took the East Portal road and experienced the canyon from below, looking up at the canyon walls along the river.

After this fantastic adventure, they stopped at the Russell Stover Factory. Some of the more fragile candy is manufactured here in Montrose. Cherry cordials and coconut creams tend to explode if not made at this high altitude.  News flash: they make hundreds of different candies, but no dog treats!