The color starts near Dolores, on the road to Dunton through the West Dolores valley. Our last minute decision to revisit this road, which we'd not driven for fifteen years, was serendipitous. The color was peaking, and we discovered that the cluster of cabins and outbuildings comprising Dunton, where we had a family reunion in the late Sixties and where we came periodically thereafter, looks much as it always did. Dad recalled that it was Ted who introduced the road to the rest of us. Beyond Burro Bridge campground, just over the bridge itself, is the trailhead for Navajo Lake at the foot of Mt. Wilson and Wilson Peak. We found that a good portion of the road had been paved, although the eastern, rough, end is still dirt. From here you cross a high point of tundra and skunk cabbage just below Lizard Head, then wind down through a final aspen grove to the main highway below.