Gold Belt Tour
Phantom Canyon Road Part 1

The canyon walls get steeper and higher, the road gets narrower. And this is still in the very south end of the journey. The road itself was in pretty good condition, narrow in spots but with regular turn-outs. Historically, the road itself is on a railroad bed laid down in the 1890's to carry ore from the Cripple Creek and Victor Mining District down to several smelters in Florence where it was processed for the gold and silver it contained.

I drove this road on a beautiful Thursday and I was a bit surprised at the amount of traffic I came across in here: for a weekday it was pretty busy for a place this wild and this far off the beaten track.