Denver

1134 readers

1 users here now

A place for discussions about Denver, CO.

Rules:

No bigotry: Including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.
Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
No NSFW content.
No Ads / Spamming.
Be thoughtful and helpful: even with ‘stupid’ questions. The world won’t be made better or worse by snarky comments schooling naive newcomers on Lemmy.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Looking for a nice mountain train ride (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

11 comments fedilink hide all child comments

My wife and I moved to the area a few years ago but still haven't gone on one of these. It looks like there are a ton of them, so I'm wondering if you folks know of any good ones?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] jack 4 points 1 year ago

The California Zephyr is a great way to get into the mountains from Union Station. Truly beautiful route, probably Amtrak's best IMO. More of a conventional train than a mountain train, but still a great route.

I remember the Royal Gorge is also a beautiful ride, though I haven't been for many years.

Apart from that, I hear great things about Durango - Silverton and plan to hit that someday. Durango has a lot of train stuff going on, might be worth considering.