Grand Junction region

June 3 = Grand Junction is a nice town with an art walk including close to 100 sculptures.

We spent an afternoon walking main street with a nice lunch outside and some shopping. There is a great bike path nearby called the Colorado River Trail and we biked the 12 mile loop. Next we moved to the state park at Palisades which is heart of the Colorado wine country so we had to go wine tasting;-) Some good wines for a young wine country. Above the Colorado River at Palisades is the Grand Mesa. The last day we were there it was 100 degrees so it seemed like a great day to head to the top which is 11K feet. Lovely views and lots of snow at the top so we took a short walk on a forest road. By the time we got back to camp it had cooled all the way down to 95 degrees. Which made us happy to leave the next day and head up into the high country near Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. Our first stop was Elk Creek Campground on Blue Mesa Reservoir which is the largest body of water in Colorado. Very pretty.