It will be interesting to hear comments on this one and SandBox hopes the kids write in.
For years, there has been a cry for educational rest area and interactive tourist draws up and down the Hwy 82 corridor.
With our vast geothermal, extensive offering of wildlife, natural phenomena and beauty there really couldn't be a better fit for building tourist drawing infrastructure.
Think....Two Rivers Park and that intersection of the Colorado River and Roaring Fork River to be environmentally engineered and turned into an interactive wetlands, geothermal study ground, state-of-the-art visitors center and a tied-in kid's whitewater park for entertaining families while down the lane at the Whitewater Park world champion games are going on.
Same thing up at Pan and Fork.
There are elk study stops that could happen between Glenwood and Carbondale.
All the way up to the top of Independence Pass we have natural oppportunities to encourage interactive tourism draws.
The Rio Grande Trail is a great example of what we hear the folks just sayin.
"Young herons, unlike their more meek parents, were for the first time last year observed fighting off an eagle attacking a heron nest along the Rio Grande Trail outside Carbondale.
That anecdote is included in a five-year monitoring report that says wild critters have mostly adjusted well to the paved section of trail between Rock Bottom Ranch and Catherine Store Road.
And the winter closure from Nov. 30 until April 30 of that section is “the most significant” management tool in balancing recreational and environmental protection goals, wrote Basalt wildlife biologist Jonathan Lowsky.
He prepared the report for the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority, which manages the former railroad corridor. RFTA’s board will get its first look at the report today during the directors’ monthly meeting at Carbondale Town Hall.
During the winter, the section of trail “has essentially become a wildlife refuge,” Lowsky said Wednesday. “Every species that I expect to be there are, indeed, there....”
(Chad Abraham)
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2 comments:
Some wonderful ideas.
I would love to see the new "Wildways" wildlife walks over a number of spots on Hwy. 82. Would tie in very nicely.
Between Glenwood and Carbondale. Ranch at Roaring Fork area. Old Snowmass and Snowmass Canyon. Gerbaz.
I'm 98% there on the Wildways, zg. Still want to see the engineering on the real thing. I think the trial build should be on Vail pass. If it works then absolutely put them everywhere we can. They are attractive, cutting edge and one of the best enviro ideas I've seen in a long time.
A word on Nanny's post I saw somewhere over the past few days on how much the RF valley could do in the way of interactive environment tourist draws. The possibilities are only limited by slow imaginations. We've got everything from mineral to mining to wildlife and sport. Natural resources like our geothermal.
There's a movement on to make the West Elk Loop family interactive. That's the idea, in a way. The whole concept has tremendous potential.
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