Tweat Me To Some Twisties (see the new map Here). Now improved without dirt!
This ride takes us south, through the balmy southerly breezes of Colorado Springs before turning west to take on the Rockies once more. Twisties are guaranteed as are epicurean delights at Zoka's Restaurant & Bar in Pine, CO. Ride this ride and you too will be able to boast to your friends that you have been to Florence and Canyon City and have seen the ancient mining town of Victor. Brave the Rockies with fellow MINIs and Minis and you will be able to impress your children with tales of High Park Road and Cripple Creek.

Here are the tentative details:

7:30 AM Starbucks
(Yosemite & Maximus - Lone Tree)




9:00 AM Quickie breakfast stop in Colorado Springs Starbucks
(S Nevada Ave & Cheyenne Meadows Rd)

817 Cheyenne Meadows Rd, Colorado Springs, CO 80906

Canon City

Cripple Creek

Lunch, early afternoon, at Zoka's Restaurant and Bar in Pine
Grove, Co. www.zokas.com The restaurant is dog friendly so this is a
doggie friendly ride.

Return to Denver by 4:00 PM after about 250 miles of Colorado glory.

The highlight is a trip up Skyline Drive in Canon City. It is a narrow
1-way road overlooking the city, Florence, et al. Short and nice.

And a nice visit to Victor, old mining town, and Cripple Creek, a
gambling town. Twisties galore. Round Tweat = 274 miles.

Be sure to sign up on the calendar: https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...=2008-5-17&c=2

 

Chuck:

I would be happy to assist you finding a breakfast location in C/S area. A few places come to mind that could handle a group.

Mike

 

What we need is a place where the CS folks can meet us, that is not far from the highway, and where we can get go-food rather than a sit down. As you know from other long rides, every 1:15 we spend sitting somwhere translates to a longer day at the end.

Please just post your suggestions.

Thanks,

JPS

 

Bump for all you late risers.

 

Chuck:

Checking over the trip map I noticed Hwy 67 Phantom Canyon Rd from Florence to Victor is part of the trip plan.

I lead a trip last summer & went through there & it was not something I would ever repeat in a Mini. Ask Jacob what he said later once we got to Victor. His Pepper White & My all Black Mini were the same shade of brown by the end.

It is a dirt road for 20-30 miles & gets down to single lane, a creek crossing & deep ruts we had to take diagonally to keep from dragging underneath or bashing the front end. We got a lot of stares from the 4x4s & trucks w/ high clearance that are the expected mode of travel throgh there. The rough section was at times a crawl <5mph & took us 2.5 hours. Why it is shown as a viable part of Hwy 67 is a mystery.

There is a fun option just West of Canon City that starts near the Royal Gorge, "Hwy 9 North towards Hartsell" then East to Guffey, then East to Cripple Creek.

Hwy 9 is the route my trip took in a N to S direction from Hartsell before trying Hwy 67 to get to Victor & Cripple Creek.

Mike

 

I have an aversion to dirt roads - just ask Jacob.
So yeah, if we can avoid the quaint 19th century road construction I'm all for it!
I'm guessing that Jonathan does not have this dirt phobia and forgot that I was going to go.

 

If we are down that far will we be seeing the Royal Gorge bridge?

 

I didn't even like this road in my truck. +1 for Hwy 9. Which means I'm going on this ride!!

 

The Hub Dinner on Garden of the Gods Road is neat. Greasy spoon.http://www.hubdiner.com/menu.htm
Or The Omelette Parlor is a favorite. http://www.co-spgs-omeletteparlor.com/
Oooh and Western Omelette. http://www.westernomelette.com/

 

Can we save our sit down meal for lunch? With 250 miles it will be a fairly long ride and to add time to the front-end might be too much. I think the intent for "Quickie" was more like a McDonalds or Starbucks or some thing. Just really a spot to meet up with the southern folks and grab-n-go.
I am partial to greasy spoons by the way - best Sunday breakfasts are at the local spoons for sure.

 

I had not intended an hour affair, but something more like a Starbucks. 15 mins for all. We will need the time.

As for 67, I could swear I drove that road a few years ago. Maybe not, maybe I am conflicted. It could have been High Park Road.

Whatever, let's go the paved way, we all agree. Chuck, feel free to edit the post.

And we are not eating in CC.

JPS

 

one where we get a big group up, park them on the Bridge, and take pictures from the hill. Did that 4 yrs ago...it was fun.

JPS

 

OK, twistie twip twanged (a tad). See how this one works.

I set the Colorado Springs rendezvous at a Starbucks on Nevada & Cheyenne Meadows at 9:00 AM.

 

It's true! If you dont' believe us, have a look at my photobucket site. The ones toward the bottom are from after we got out of the canyon, you can see the tons of dirt and dust. You would definately hate this road chuck.

I'm still unsure of whether I can come or not. I hope the answer is yes. We shall see though, we've been pretty busy lately.

 

we are taking the paved road. I have done it and it was cool. I must have looked at the map wrong.

Thanks Chuck for being detail oriented.

JPS

 

Not only detail oriented, but detailing oriented as well!

 

Jacob:

Thanks for posting the pictures of the Phantom Canyon section of Hwy 67. Looking at the pictures again I felt a shiver of relief come over me once more that we actually made it through w/ out damage!

Mini Off Roading at it's best!

 

Hope to be able to make the drive. I was going to suggest that the route from Cripple Creek back to Woodland Park change to Teller 1 instead of 67, but now see this is now the route into CC. Route 67 can be a drag if you get stuck behind one of the shuttles, but Teller 1 has some nice curves as it makes it way to Florissant and Highway 24. Just be ready for the chance of snow up there we had some last year in late May, in fact, I did not take my snow tires off until Memorial Day.
Looking forward to meeting some of the other owners.

Robb,...Woodland Park
05 MCS EB/B

 

Great Robb. I'm assuming you will meet up with us in CO Springs?

 

Yes, meet-up with everyone else in COS. Really need to get new tires soon as the original RFs are getting close to their tread limits. Trying to decide if I want new rims at this time, guess I need to start shopping.

Robb

 

Not to get off on a tangent here, but I replaced my RF w/Nitto NeoGens and they are great!
Now back to more Tweat Me To Some Twisties.

 

Sounds like this weekend will have nice weather for our twistie tweats!
Come and join us for some Colorado mountain roads.
See you Saturday!

 

Looking forward to it. Now to motivate me driving down from Louisville to Starbucks.

 

The ride sounds like a lot of fun but unfortunately I have to back out! I'm moving the end of this month and my list of "things to do" is still pretty long. So, I have to spend this Saturday trying to knock that list down a little. I'm sorry.
After the move my schedule should hopefully free up! I hope to be able to make more runs after May.

Have fun everyone!!
Shannon

 

See y'all there. MR MINI got a new rear bumper since being rear-ended last week so he's good as new. Weather should be great. We have an undeveloped 5 acre lot near Canon City so I know the route. Unfortunately it got burned out during the Iron Mountain fire a few years back!