 Shrine Pass Stump and Wildflowers |
Double Columbine |
Yankee Boy Rainbow |
 Shrine Pass, Lupine Sunset |
 Shrine Pass and two stumps |
 Shrine Pass Meadow |
 Boreas Pass Dawn Showy Dasies |
 Boreas Pass Dawn Sunflowers |
 Tiny Elephant Heads and Dasies |
 Columbines and Paintbrush |
 Columbine, Dasies & Green Leaves |
 Columbine, Dasies, Granite |
 Dasies and Log |
 Forest Gems |
 Golden Banner and Longs Peak |
 Forest Meadow and Wildflowers |
 Granite Palette and Flowers |
 Columbine at Mohawk Lake |
 Maroon Bells and Sunflowers |
 Forest Bouquet, Mohawk Lake Trail |
 Mohawk Lake and Showy Dasies |
Two Owl Clover and a Poppy |
Airplant |
Arizona Lupine |
Crested Butte Wildflowers |
 Columbine and Falls One of our best Pictures of Wilflowers |
Single Columbine |
 Showy Dasies, Mohawk Lake Trail |
 Mohawk Lake Bolders & Showy Dasies |
 Mohawk Lake Wildflowers and Log |
 Mohawk Lake Wildflowers and Shady Log |
 Mount Avery and Glacier Lilies, Horizontal |
 Mt Sneffles and Lupines |
 Paintbrush and Gathering Storm |
 Indian Paintbrush and Grasses |
 Lupine and Blue Sky |
 Lupines and Log |
 Columbine and Creek One of our best Pictures of Wilflowers |
Creek, Trunks and Flowers |
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Crested Butte Showy Dasies  |
Poppy Patch |
Oak, Indian Paintbrush, Bluebonnerts |
 Quandry Peak, Dasies and Grass |
 Quandry Peak Paintbrush |
 |McCullah Gulch, Dasies Rocks and Columbines |
 Rustler Gulch Columbines |
 Rustler Gulch Single Columbine |
 Shrine Pass Paintbrush |
 Shrine Pass Wildflowers and Stumps |
Maroon Bells, Lake and Sunflowers |
 Sunflowers in the Forest |
 Twilight Columbines |
 Twilight Paintbrush |
 Shrine Pass Wildflower Bouquet |
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Snowy Range Flowers |
Fireweed and Rocks |
Lily Pond and Sky Reflections |
San Juan Lily Pond |
Poppy in the Rain |
Snowy Range Creek |
Yankee Boy Creek |
 Wildflower Meadow and Fence |
Red Tulips (not wild but |
 Purple Flowers and Creek 2 |
 Purple Flowers and Creek 1 |
 Red Rocks Lake Morning |
 Wildflowers and Fence |
 Blue Lake Falls and Blue Bells |
 Colorado Blue Bells |
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Columbine, Dasies and Green Leaves |
Columbine, Paintbrush and Lupine |
 5130, Three Glacier Lilies Gothic Valley near Crested Butte, Colorado Three Glacier Lilies, near Crested Butte, CO |
 Stormy Crested Butte Wildflowers |
 Indian Paintbrush |
 Showy Dasies in the Forest |
 Primrose Cascade Horizontal |
 Red Rocks Morning 3, Long Narrow |
 Boulder and Wildflowers |
 Crested Butte Fireweed I |
Crested Butte Fireweed II |
 Wildflowers and Crested Butte Lake |
 5129, Two Glacier Lilies, Gothic Valley Near Crested Buttte, Colorado |
 5122, Indian Paint Brush Early Spring, Green Mountain in Denver, Colorado |
 5120A, Wild Iris and Sisters, Near Salida, Colorado |
 5120, Gore Range and Sunflowers Colorado |
 5123, Two Indian Paintbrush and Grasses, Green Mountain in Denver, Colorado |
 5121, Golden Banner and Sisters, Near Salida, Colorado |
 5160, Aspen Trunk and Flower |
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The Wildflowers of Yankee Boy Basin
The Best Wildflower Location in Colorado
Yankee Boy Basin, high in Colorado's San Juan Mountains, is one of the premier wildflower locations in the West. Joan and I have photographed this high basin half a dozen times the last ten or fifteen years . The huge meadows of Columbine, Indian Paintbrush, daises, and bluebells surrounded by towering peaks is truly an enchanting place. The peak of the wildflower bloom in high basins like Yankee Boy varies from year to year but is usually best sometime between early July and early August. Mid July is often a good time to go. It's hard to say when it will be best this year. We had a hot early spring but there was a good bit of snow in the mountains last winter. I talked to a young couple on Memorial Day who said they had just gotten back from a great ski trip in Yankee Boy the weekend before. My guess is that mid July should be good this year. Yankee Boy Basin is not far from Ouray Colorado. Head south out of Ouray and turn right onto Camp Bird Road just as you leave town. This road is marked as County Road 361. The last time we were there, a sign for Yankee Boy Basin also marked the way. It is somewhat of an adventure getting up to Yankee Boy but if you take it easy it should be no problem. To get up into the basin itself you do need a four wheel drive vehicle, however some people do take a regular passenger car to the foot of the basin and then walk the half mile or so up into the basin itself. Four wheel drive is definitely much better though, especially if you have little experience with Colorado back-country roads. The four wheel part of the road is not tough; any SUV will have little problem. It is about seven miles from Ouray up into Yankee Boy basin. If you are not up to driving to Yankee Boy Basin yourself, there are a number of tour places in Ouray that offer jeep trips into the surrounding mountains. They all offer trips to Yankee Boy as well as other trips over Imogene Pass, the Alpine Loop, Engineer Pass, Black Bear Pass, and much more. http://www.ouraycolorado.com/Jeeping will get you all kinds of information on jeep trips and other guided trips in the Ouray area....... Go to the entire article to finish reading it.
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