House on the Bridge

Our trip along the highway of legends (highway 12) going south out of La Veta took us past the gorgeous mountain lakes I pictured in the last post.  We followed it along all the way to milepost 42 to see the "House on the Bridge".  The house was built on top of the bridge that crosses this small creek.  There was too much brush in the way to get a good picture from the highway.  We went past it and then took a gravel road that took us alongside it.  It is falling down and in the top picture you can't really tell that it is sitting on top of a bridge.  We should have tried going farther up the gravel road to see if we would have gotten a better picture. Oh Well maybe next time. 

There is an app for travelers called travelers stories.  It's a free app and you can download the story of the highway of legends in Colorado.   As you travel the highway it then tells the story of each interesting thing along the way that you can still see or maybe gone but is still part of the history of the area.  The app works for other areas not just this one and if you download the story before you travel you don't have to worry about losing cell signal because it will still work.