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Featured image: Susan and Max McElmurry of Batesville enjoy the sandstone landscapes at Arches National Park near Moab, Utah during a recent First Community Bank Adventure First Travel Club tour.
Twenty-nine members of the Adventure First Travel Club had a spectacular time on a recent tour through the Colorado Rockies and parts of Utah.
The tour was sponsored by First Community Bank, which offers activities for qualifying members and guests of the bank’s Adventure First Travel Club.
The First Community Bank group’s motorcoach passed by a large elk that had stopped to rest beside a lake at the resort town of Estes Park, and then the motorcoach followed Trail Ridge Road across the Continental Divide at Rocky Mountain National Park at an elevation of nearly 12,000 feet.
Colorado National Monument, Canyonland National Park, and Dead Horse Point State Park offered a continuous colorful panorama of deep, sheer-sided canyons, high rock towers, and dramatic desert landscapes.
Arches National Park near Moab, Utah, provided a 73,000-acre wonderland of amazing rock formations, including more than 2,000 sandstone arches.
Spectacular scenery was abundant for travelers during a slow ride from Silverton to Durango onboard an 1880s-era train pulled by a coal-fired, steam-powered locomotive.
At Mesa Verde National Park, Travel Club guests viewed a spectacular window into the past at the Cliff Palace where, for over 700 years, the Ancestral Pueblo people built thriving communities on the mesas and in the cliffs of Mesa Verde.
The Travel Club will soon announce its complete schedule of monthly tours and trips for 2023. The major trips for next year will include “Exploring Greece and Its Islands” on May 4-19; the “Southern Belles” of Charleston, Savannah, and Jekyll Island on Sept. 22-28; and “Spotlight on New York City Holiday,” in December 2023.
For additional information, please contact Chuck Jones at First Community Bank, (870) 612-3400, or email chuck.jones@firstcommunty.net.
The First Community Bank guests gather at a dramatic overlook at Dead Horse Point State Park in Utah, which served as a natural corral by cowboys in the 19th century.
Wanda Petree of Batesville pauses for a view of the Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado.
The scenery was the star of the show on board an 1880s-era train operated by the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.
Dick Gregg of Sulphur Rock watches a rock climber rappel down a rock formation at Garden of the Gods near Colorado Springs, Colo / Information and images provided by First Community Bank’s Adventure First Travel Club