Hidden Treasures of Colorado's Eastern Plains

[@Denverdaytrippers]

I need to make a trip to the paint mines! Thanks for sharing :)

[@nomaderic]

It's well worth it. Once you get down in there and the colors of the rocks are all around you. It's fascinating to see.

[@PuLsarSevenMC]

Driving through eastern Colorado made me feel so small. The sky being that big just had me hypnotized

[@powerwagon3731]

Thank you , I love all of Colorado!

[@toddstrickland973]

That's the quiet part of Colorado, I live in la junta, nice little city.

[@JohnArchuleta-t8s]

Born and raised in Colorado, family roots go back generations. I appreciate that you value the lesser part of the state to do a video on it. Truthfully, I need and would like to visit the recommendations you suggested in your video. America is so vast, great, and beautiful that it could take a lifetime to see every corner of what she has to offer.

[@j.r.777]

I live in Northeast Colorado, out on the plains in Sterling. It’s definitely a very different way of life out here but does have its own unique beauty as well.

[@DrJohn493]

Thanks for a quick tour of a part of Colorado I've never visited, but I am aware of the shameful history of the Sand Creek Massacre. As a flatlander from the southeast I gotta admit though I'm looking for that Rocky Mountains experience Colorado has to offer every year I visit.

[@nomaderic]

Ive been traveling around the country for a few years now and i absolutely love the region. I call it the "transition zone" where the plains meet the rockies. From down in the oklahoma panhandle at black mesa all the way up to north Dakota and Theodore Roosevelt national park and everywhere in between. So many cool, beautiful places to see.

[@kevinwiseman5313]

Im an eastern plains Coloradan. These are my stomping grounds.

[@davidsimon1324]

I went to the black Mesa in Oklahoma last weekend. Its beautiful there. I also went to the tri point where i was at the Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico marker. Its beautiful where the plains and the ricky mountains meet.🙂

[@johnschneider4160]

Thank you!

[@earlystrings1]

I always thought the high plains were beautiful and I’m sorry to say I mostly know them through a car window driving past. Need to fix that!

[@drwho5437]

Bents first Fort was located on what is now Fort Carson near Colorado Springs. They built it attempting to trade with both the Indians from both the mountains and the plains. They came to realize they built their Fort in a neutral ground that neither the Utes from the mountains nor the plains Indians would travel to. Deciding the plains Indians had the most trading value they moved east to where the current Bents Fort remains. Just little history for ya.

[@redpill5471]

Paint mines used to be on private land. I pray it doesn't get vandalized by outsiders like everything else. The wind mills are a plain eye sore. Hideous obstruction. The real story behind sand creek massacre is disgusting . So very sad. If hiking be sure and wear high boots and gators for rattlesnake protection. Any help is far far away.

[@Gulfeagler1]

Stolen land!!!!!!!!!

[@jamesantolik5734]

Not true, you may want to educate yourself.

[@spidey-67]

So is the land where your home sits. Why don’t you set a good example for the rest of us and give it back? It would be really inspiring and emotional…

[@TrumpAlly]

I lived in Yoder for 13 years, although the plains are beautiful in their own right, trees are rare and the wind NEVER stops blowing. If you forget to tie it down, whatever it, is, you'll find it 3 County's away.