The drive up is pretty fun!
This stopping place is at 12,000 feet.
The Rest Room and Coffee signs are important!
This is where they stop you on the way down to check your brakes.
Lou was relieved to find out that "He knew how to drive on mountain roads!"
A little entertaining history on the way up.
Thrill seekers, fund raisers and publicity hounds have been attracted to Pikes Peak for decades.
Julia Holmes walked from Kansas to Colorado then became the “first documented white woman to reach the summit of Pikes Peak.
In 1929 a Texan pushed a peanut to the summit with his nose.
A piano was pushed to the summit in 1995.
The drive is not for the 'faint of heart'
I just love lookin down on those switchbacks.
The summit has a new visitor center, and the "must do" thing is to get the
"high altitude donut".
If you can't read the ticket
it says:
$8.40
(yes they were good)
1873 and 2021
There is a walk around the entire top - with gorgeous views in all directions.
This is so named because so many have died from lightening strikes from the frequent thunder storms.
If you go, make sure to go in the morning.
There are always so many people that you have to get a 'Timed Entry Ticket"
and not stay at the top for more than 2 hours.
