Heading north on Hwy 40 out of Winter Park, thru Fraser and Tabernash, turn on CO Hwy 55 - just a few
miles before reaching Granby. You will find yourself on a well-packed gravel road almost immediately. This road is the actual stagecoach route used in the late
1800's over Cottonwood Pass to Hot Sulphur Springs. You find yourself traveling back in time as you wind your way along rolling farmland and up the gradual grade
to the pass.
As you near the top of Cottonwood Pass there is a two building farmhouse (previous photo) with the remnants of a piano laying in shambles. My heart sank as I looked at this once-beautiful
instrument. What memories lie here? What music must have echoed up and down this valley? What happened that caused the piano to be destroyed instead of being preserved?
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