Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10

tain camping ground in Genesee park
for touring autoists, which will be
opened this spring. 1t is fitted with
running water, stone ovens and other
accommodations.
For two years Denver has main
tanned an automobile town in City
park, its largest pleasure ground with
ing the city limits. Two hundred cars
day were packed there last summer
and, in order to relieve this conges-
ton, and at the same time provide a
new diversion for the transcontinental
motor travellers, the mountain auto
park was devised.
Wealthy Denverites, professional
men from the city and people from
Chicago, Omaha, Des Molnes, St.
Louis, Pittsburgh and other eastern
and middle western states, have built
summer estates in this picturesque
park, and furnished them with sinks of
wild animals and barbaric Navajo
rugs.
To Mount Evans Lofty Top.
The ultimate destination of the Den
yer mountain parks is Mount Evans,
14,260 feet high, tenth highest peak
out of forty peaks in the Colorado
Rockies over $4,000 feet in elevation.
A government survey has been COM
pleted which leads to the very sum-
nit, running along the edges of sheer
precipces 1000 feet high. Federal
aid has been asked by the city to
carry out cooperative plan for the
construction of this above-timberline
route.
The mountain parks system has al
ready had a wonderful effect in slim
ulating construction of scenic noun
tain roads by neighboring counties
and towns. Idaho Springs, where
radium springs are located, has con-
nected itself with the mountain parks
by road similar in construction and
characteristics to the city's roads.
From Idaho Springs an excellent
route now being built, leads over
Berthoud pass to Grand Lake, across
the Continental Divide to the Rock
Mountain National park and back to
Denver by way of the plains. At
Grand Lake, two miles above the sea
level, annual yacht regattas are held:
From the Rocky Mountain National
parks a road leads north toward the
Yellowstone, the most marvellous wild
game preserve in America.
The motorist, after passing through
the Denver Mountain parks, may elect
to 90 southwark to the strange rock
formations of the Wheeler National
Monument, the Mesa Verde National
park and the Grand Canyon.
The Mesa Verde, or Green Mesa,
lies in the southwest corner of Colo
rado. On the top of this table noun
tain and in the precipitous ravines on
its sides above the Mancos river, the
cliff dwelers lived centuries ago
Their community houses, represented
by the Cliff Palace and the Spruce
Tree House, their places of worship
represented by the Sun Temple, still
stand in a wonderful state of preser-
walton.
Among the Cliff Dwellers.
The government has preserved this
story of a past race, even guarding
the pottery vessels, decorated in an
astonishingly modern style, and new
structures are being unearthed by the
Smithsonian institution on top of the
Mesa. A high form Of Indian civiliza-
ton fourished there. The inhabitants
gained their living by the pursuit of
agriculture, and had a primitive but
commendable sense of art and archi-
lecture. Their house in the shelves
of overhanging cliffs, were built Of
brick and stones, and were reached
by ladders. The Cliff Palace along
sheltered 200 families.
There are many short scenic trips
out of Denver, including the far
famed Georgetown Loop trip, the
summit of Mount Mcclellan. Idaho