Behind the Grand Mesa

Wildflowers etc.

I didn’t stay very long at the Hippie Pot-Smoking-Paradise RV park. Within a couple of months, I was on my way. The last foray I made before leaving was on a road called Buzzard Divide. It goes up Buzzard Creek up over a divide that you might say is “behind” the Grand Mesa - east of it, and a little bit lower in elevation. What a beautiful place.

The Buzzard Divide Road of Mesa County, Colorado

This is National Forest land. Full of wildflowers; here are a few close-ups.

L to R: Geranium, Fairy Trumpet, Coneflower

You can click on each of these to make it bigger. There are many others that I didn’t include here.

And just to fill up this post, here are a couple of shots from the east side of the Grand Mesa itself.

Elk Park Reservoir on Colorado’s Grand Mesa

The view east from the Grand Mesa. West Elk Mountains in the distance.