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![Colorado State Road 114](../../images/roads/co114-01.jpg)
57 Slides
Cochetopa Canyon, Cochetopa Park, Saguache Valley, Sangre de Cristo Range
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![Haz Mat Prohibited](../../images/roads/co114-02.JPG)
NW end of CO 114 at US 50 seven miles east of Gunnison (No Hazardous Material)
Nov 24 2020 - 9:38 am
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![Pasture](../../images/roads/co114-03.JPG)
Pasture in November
Nov 24 2020 - 9:41 am
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![Same Herd](../../images/roads/co114-04.JPG)
A year later (same Black Angus herd)
Nov 12 2021 - 12:06 pm
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![False Canyon](../../images/roads/co114-05.JPG)
Cochetopa Canyon?
Nov 12 2021 - 12:06 pm
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![Cochetopa Canyon](../../images/roads/co114-06.JPG)
Not yet (meandering Cochetopa Creek in middleground)
Nov 12 2021 - 12:06 pm
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![Cochetopa Canyon](../../images/roads/co114-07.JPG)
Cochetopa Canyon
Nov 12 2021 - 12:06 pm
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![Volcanic Rocks](../../images/roads/co114-08.JPG)
Same formation a year earlier
Nov 24 2020 - 10:02 am
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![Cochetopa Park](../../images/roads/co114-09.JPG)
Cliff forming volcanic rocks (fractured densely welded tuff)
Nov 24 2020 - 10:05 am
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![Cochetopa Creek](../../images/roads/co114-10.JPG)
Cochetopa Creek in the canyon
Nov 24 2020 - 10:04 am
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![San Juan Volanoes](../../images/roads/co114-11.JPG)
Ignimbrites (hot pyroclastic flows or nuee ardentes) from San Juan Volcanoes 15 miles away (Yellowstone scale eruptions)
Nov 14 2020 - 1:40 pm
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![La Garita Mountains](../../images/roads/co114-12.JPG)
Cochetopa Creek flowing into the canyon
Nov 14 2020 - 1:31 pm
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![La Garita Mountains](../../images/roads/co114-13.png)
La Garita Mountains and their massive caldera geology
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![La Garita Mountains](../../images/roads/co114-14.JPG)
from left: San Luis Peak (14,014'), Baldy Alto (13,698'), Stewart Peak (13,983'), and Baldy Chato (13,401')
Nov 12 2021 - 12:41 pm
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![Snow Fence](../../images/roads/co114-15.JPG)
Snow fence in front of Cochetopa Hills
Nov 12 2021 - 12:44 pm
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![Hay Stack](../../images/roads/co114-16.JPG)
Hay to tide the herd over the winter
Nov 14 2021 - 1:57 pm
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![Phoenix Peak](../../images/roads/co114-17.JPG)
Glacial cirques on Phoenix Peak (13,895', right) and ridge to La Garita Peak (13,710')
Nov 12 2021 - 12:47 pm
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![San Luis Peak](../../images/roads/co114-18.JPG)
San Luis Peak (14,014')
Nov 12 2021 - 12:48 pm
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![La Garita Mountains](../../images/roads/co114-19.JPG)
La Garita Mountains from Cochetopa Park
Nov 14 2021 - 12:39 pm
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![County Road 14 NN](../../images/roads/co114-20.JPG)
Saguache County Road NN 14
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![Cochetopa Creek](../../images/roads/co114-21.JPG)
Cochetopa Creek in Cochetopa Park
Nov 14 2021 - 12:19 pm
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![Dome Lake SWA](../../images/roads/co114-22.JPG)
Dome Lake State Wildlife Area (San Luis Peak in background)
Nov 14 2021 - 12:19 pm
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![Original Dome Lake](../../images/roads/co114-23.JPG)
Original Dome Lake (San Luis Peak in background)
Nov 14 2021 - 12:19 pm
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![Cochetopa Creek](../../images/roads/co114-24.JPG)
Cochetopa Creek above the lakes (upstream view towards the headwaters on San Luis Peak)
Nov 14 2021 - 12:19 pm
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![Cochetopa Creek](../../images/roads/co114-25.JPG)
Cochetopa Creek downstream toward replaced Dome Lake
Nov 14 2021 - 12:19 pm
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![Road Sign](../../images/roads/co114-26.JPG)
Road sign
Nov 14 2021 - 12:19 pm
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![Road Sign](../../images/roads/co114-27.JPG)
Sure sign of the west (rifled road signs) turnaround point
Nov 14 2021 - 12:19 pm
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![Dome Lake](../../images/roads/co114-28.JPG)
Dome Lake
Nov 14 2021 - 12:19 pm
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![Cochetopa Dome](../../images/roads/co114-29.JPG)
Cotchetopa Dome (11,132')
Nov 14 2021 - 12:19 pm
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![Gravel Road](../../images/roads/co114-30.JPG)
NN 14 is a 50 MPH road with lots of 20 MPH curves
Nov 14 2021 - 12:19 pm
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![Irrigation](../../images/roads/co114-31.JPG)
Irrigated Cochetopa Valley
Nov 14 2021 - 12:19 pm
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![Sawatch Range](../../images/roads/co114-32.JPG)
A quick glimpse at the Sawatch Range (NN 14 where it turns west, half-mile before CO 114)
Nov 14 2021 - 12:19 pm
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![CO 114](../../images/roads/co114-33.JPG)
Back to the highway
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![Speed Limit 65 MPH](../../images/roads/co114-34.JPG)
65 MPH ... Right ... !!
Nov 24 2020 - 10:16 am
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![Snow](../../images/roads/co114-35.JPG)
Then it started to snow
Nov 24 2020 - 10:22 am
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![Blowing Snow](../../images/roads/co114-36.JPG)
And blow
Nov 24 2020 - 10:29 am
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![North Cochetopa Pass](../../images/roads/co114-37.png)
I gotta get over the habit of driving over the Continental Divide in snowstorms
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![North Cochetopa Pass](../../images/roads/co114-38.JPG)
San Luis Peak from North Cochetopa Pass
Nov 14 2021 - 11:41 am
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![Saguache Valley](../../images/roads/co114-39.JPG)
Down from the pass into Saguache Valley
Nov 12 2021 - 1:04 pm
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![Roadside Parking](../../images/roads/co114-40.JPG)
Road side parking for interesting rocks
Sep 05 2017 - 4:14 pm
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![Exfoliation](../../images/roads/co114-41.JPG)
Exfoliated volcanics (moderately welded tuff)
Sep 05 2017 - 4:08 pm
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![Saguache Valley](../../images/roads/co114-42.JPG)
CO 114 into Saguache Valley
Sep 05 2017 - 4:13 pm
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![Weather Tuff](../../images/roads/co114-43.JPG)
Weathered tuff
Nov 12 2021 - 1:07 pm
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![Telephoto](../../images/roads/co114-44.JPG)
Telephoto of the weathered tuff (life will find a way)
Nov 14 2021 - 11:38 am
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![Canyon](../../images/roads/co114-45.JPG)
Canyon in tuff
Nov 12 2021 - 1:07 pm
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![Palisade](../../images/roads/co114-46.JPG)
Palisade (reminiscent US 50 east of Blue Mesa Dam)
Nov 14 2021 - 11:14 am
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![Cirrus Clouds](../../images/roads/co114-47.JPG)
Cirrus Clouds over Saguache Valley
Nov 14 2021 - 11:58 am
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![Saguache Valley](../../images/roads/co114-48.JPG)
Saguache Valley
Nov 12 2021 - 1:16 pm
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![Sangre de Cristo Range](../../images/roads/co114-49.JPG)
A glimpse at the Sangre de Cristo Range from CO 114
Nov 12 2021 - 1:13 pm
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![Saguache Creek](../../images/roads/co114-50.JPG)
San Juan volcanic rocks
Nov 14 2021 - 11:19 am
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![Saguache, CO](../../images/roads/co114-51.JPG)
Still snowing in Saguache, CO; 45 minutes later (the SE end of CO 114)
Nov 24 2020 - 11:04 am
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![US 285](../../images/roads/co114-52.JPG)
North (left) on US 285
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![Sangre de Cristo Range](../../images/roads/co114-53.JPG)
Sangre de Cristo Range (left Crestone Group of five 14ers; right Sierra Blanca Group of four 14ers)
Nov 12 2021 - 1:26 pm
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![Fluted Peak](../../images/roads/co114-54.JPG)
Appropriately named Fluted Peak (13,554') just north of the Crestone Group
Nov 12 2021 - 1:36 pm
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![Sierra Blanca Group](../../images/roads/co114-55.JPG)
Sierra Blanca Group
Nov 12 2021 - 1:27 pm
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![Sangre de Cristos](../../images/roads/co114-56.JPG)
Last photo for CO 114 (US 285): Sangre de Cristo Range (visible all the way to Poncha Pass)
Nov 05 2020 - 4:47 pm
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![CO 17](../../images/roads/co114-57.JPG)
CO 17 end of CO 114 - US 285
see CO 17 for US 285 continuing north to Poncha Pass (slides 2-7) and US 24 north to Fairplay (slides 25-51)