Peak to Peak Scenic Byway in Colorado questions
Greetings, fellow road trippers! I'm looking for advice as to the most scenic way to get from the southern portion of the Peak to Peak Scenic Byway back to the Denver area. Which, in your opinion, is the most scenic route? Golden Gate Canyon Road, which joins 93 in north Golden, or continuing on 119 to Hwy 6 which shows on Google to be Clear Canyon Road/Grand Army of the Republic Hwy, into Golden?
We plan to use the most scenic of the two routes on our drive back home to Texas. I'd love to see more mountains and bypass Denver completely, if possible, but every route that does that would add even more miles and turn our 2-day drive home from Estes Park into a 3-day drive. As it is, we plan to stop for the night in Trinidad, which would be around halfway for us.
Our trip is in early June. We been to Colorado several times, to the southwest part of the state and to Colorado Springs and Denver once, but this will be our first trip to the Estes Park region.