Wolf Creek Run - Interior of Office/Clubhouse

These are pictures of the inside of the large log Clubhouse and Office.  

As you enter, this is the Office area.  It is all open.

Across the front from the office, is the living room area

This is on the chiminey, up in the loft.  Wolf.

This guy, below,  in front of the fireplace

The owner was telling me about this sculpture.  It's called "double Eagle".  This is one side...In addition to the sculpture, look at the base of that table it sits on.

And this is the other side.  2 Eagles chest to chest.

A beautiful sculpture.  Check out the couch in the background

He keeps catching my eye.  Cardboard Elvis.  Love this bar.

And I love the base of this lamp

I really really like this.  Can you spot the wolf?

So now you keep going toward the back after entering the Office, and you come to the kitchen

And boy is it a kitchen!!

And finally the end of the kitchen.  What's the best part is the Owner is always cooking away for his guests.  Breakfast was delicious this morning.

This is the bar out on the terrace that expands the whole width of the house.  This bar has two sided sitting.

Picnic table to match the other terrace furniture

This is the cafe, with access off the Terrace

And last but not least, this is a magnificant wooden mirror in the Ladies room off the Cafe.

Wolf Creek Run, Pagosa Springs, CO

Wolf Creek Run

1742 E. Hwy 160

Pagosa Springs, CO  81147

970-264-0365

Www.wolfcreekrun.net

Sign from Hwy 160:

Entrance

Office

Terrace at back of Office

Lounge and Cafe inside double doors

There are half a dozen scattered on the terrace at the back of the office:

Path leads to picnic table pavilliion overlooking river

San Juan River

San Juan River, runs alongside Campground

Typical lot.  All are cement

Cement road, shaped as a "U"

Sites distance from eachother

Each site comes with a mountain-style gazebo with 8' x 10' storage

This is our site:

Tucker is just adorable

Wild flowers covering the grassy areas

Blue Spruce decorate the whole park

Fountain in the center of the "U"

He greeted me at our lot when I returned from taking pictures

Lunch at the gazebo.  

Early Morning

Walking the dog this morning I took some pictures.  We will leave this beauty behind us tomorrow.

On the road from Durango CO To Silverton via US 550

Today, we took the one-hour drive to Silverton.  

The rugged San Juan Mountains were owned by the Utes until gold was discovered in the early 1960s.  Captain Charles Baker led a party into what is now the broad, flat valley where Silverton now sits and discovered traces of gold.

These Pines were so different!  The tan line going horizontally in the picture was the road...

Negotiations with the Utes took several years, and in 1874 the San Juans were opened up to settlement.

I tried to crop this sign.  It says Molas Pass Summit - Elev 10910 Ft.

We came into the Town of Silverton.  Silverton was incorporated in 1874.

The main route into Silverton was a "wagon road" over Stony Pass from Salida.  To say that it was passable by wagon was stretching the truth.

Getting the ore out of the San Juans and supplies into the mining camps was expensive & difficult..

The D&RG arrived in what is now Durango in 1879.

With the arrival of the Denver & Rio Grand Railroad to Silverton in 1882, ore was easily exported, and supplies were easy to get.  

Silverton was the center of commerce for the region.

We stopped in Romero's

I ordered a Taco Salad with Beef.  It came with Chicken.

Jim ordered huevos rancheros (mexican eggs) "over easy".  They came scrambled with a whole chili pepper underneath them.  Rice came out of a can.  Jim's coffee never came...

The Murial below was painted.  I saw a piece of the paper where it had torn.

Durango became a smelter town, utilizing nearby coal fields.  Rich ores mined and milled at mines like the Sunnyside, the Old Hundred and the Silver Lake were now shipped south to be smelted.

Today Silverton is the only town left in San Juan County, with a population of 600, supported by tourists who ride the rails to see the magnificent scenery and relive the incredible history of the area. 

On March 14, 1953 the Shenandoa-Dives Mine and Mayflower Mill ended production & closed. 

After a bit, we returned to the car for the ride home.