2010 Departure Dates September 19, 22, 29 Highlights • 10 Day Motorcoach and Scenic Train Holiday • Free home or local pickup and return • 16 Meals (8 dinners, 1 lunch and 7 breakfasts) • Horse-drawn wagon ride and the Kit Carson Carousel • Colorado Springs and the beautiful Garden of the Gods • Denver city tour • Great Platte River Road Memorial • $50 in Mayflower Money • $35 in Mayflower Money Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Experience 5 thrilling train rides following historical routes of the Old West: Trains Across • Pikes Peak Cog Railway • Royal Gorge Scenic Railway • Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Colorado • Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad • Georgetown Loop Railroad fea turin g Five Historic Train s 10 Day Motorcoach Tour Your Hotels Day One – We’re Off! Day Three – Colorado Springs Day One – Comfort Inn, Omaha, NE “All Aboard!” our motorcoach...but just for This morning we head for Colorado Springs. Day Two – Comfort Inn, Burlington, CO the time being. Get ready for a thrilling tour Here we visit the stunning Garden of the Day Three – Crowne Plaza or Drury Inn, filled with trains and a unique look into our Gods. It is a 1300+ acre park where flora and Colorado Springs, CO nation’s history of western expansion. fauna reflect the rich diversity of the terrain, (Dinner) and red sandstone formations tell a unique Day Four – Inn of the Rio Grande Hotel, geological story. The Garden lies at the base Alamosa, CO Day Two – Arrive Colorado of Pikes Peak, which is our next adventure. Day Five – Comfort Inn or Hampton Inn, Following breakfast, we continue west and “Ride to the Clouds!” and board the Pikes Durango, CO arrive in Burlington, located in Colorado’s Peak Cog Railway, the highest cog railroad in Outback, the heart of the Eastern Plains. We the U.S. stretching nine miles long. Day Six – DoubleTree Grand Junction Hotel, Grand enjoy an Old West-style horse-drawn wagon (Breakfast and dinner) Junction, CO ride followed by a ride on the Kit Carson Days Seven and Eight – DoubleTree Southeast, County Carousel. The carousel has been fully Aurora, CO restored to its original splendor and is known Day Nine – Comfort Suites, Lincoln, NE to be the “jewel”of all carousels. It was carved by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company in 1905 and is now a National Historic Landmark. We visit “Old Town” Burlington, where you’ll find a depot built in 1889, with its original rail cars,as well as numerous other historic buildings including a bank, barber shop and blacksmith shop. All provide a unique perspective of what it must have been like to have lived at that time. (Breakfast and dinner) Pikes Peak Cog Railway 10 Days • 16 Meals 2010 Departure Dates Georgetown Loop Railroad COLORADO September 19, 22, 29 Aurora Golden Your tour includes: Burlington • Services of a professional Tour Manager Grand Junction Pikes Peak Cog Railway Colorado Springs • Free Home or Local Pickup Durango & Silverton Railroad Canon City • 16 Meals (8 dinners 1lunch and 7 breakfasts) Royal Gorge • Deluxe motorcoach transportation Durango Scenic Railway Alamosa • $50 in Mayflower Money Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Per Person Rates Durango & Silverton Train Twin $1,899 Single room add $689 Day Four – Royal Gorge Scenic Railway maintained in their original condition. This Welcome to Canon City, home of the Royal Gorge. evening we gather again for dinner and reflect on Triple room deduct $18 Today we enjoy another journey by train aboard our day’s adventure. (Breakfast and dinner) the Royal Gorge Scenic Railway.The 12-mile route follows the most famous portion of the old Day Seven – Georgetown Loop Railroad Denver and Rio Grande Western train line.We ride This morning we go through the spectacular through the “Grand Canyon of the Arkansas”on an Rocky Mountains as we travel to our last train ride unforgettable journey over the famous Hanging on the Georgetown Loop Railroad. An 1880s engi- Bridge, which clings precariously to the steep neering feat, the Devil’s Gate High Bridge rises 95 granite walls of the Royal Gorge. This evening we feet above Clear Creek. As we travel over the gather for dinner together. reconstructed bridge,marvel at the most complex (Breakfast and dinner) railroad loop in the world. Witness some of Colorado’s most breathtaking scenery before Day Five – Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad arriving in Denver for our next two nights. Today we’ll ride the original Rio Grande Line over (Dinner) the Rockies aboard the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad. This is America’s most spectacular nar- Day Eight – Denver row gauge steam railroad, covering over 50 miles Following breakfast we have a city tour of Denver, of wild and rugged territory between Antonito capital of Colorado, including the State Capitol and Cumbres Pass. We enjoy lunch at the halfway Building and Civic Center. The afternoon is yours Georgetown Loop Railroad stop, Osier, as we imagine the gold and silver min- to explore Denver on your own or shop. ers and loggers who traveled the same route long (Breakfast and dinner) ago. (Lunch) Day Nine – Denver to Lincoln, Nebraska Day Six – Durango & Silverton Train After breakfast set off for the new Great Platte It’s “full steam ahead” again today as we board River Road Memorial.This evening we join togeth- the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. er one last time for dinner. (Breakfast and dinner) Voted one of the “Top Ten Most Exciting Train Journeys in the World”by the Society of American Day Ten – Homeward Bound Travel Writers, this route winds through the spec- We travel home today with new knowledge and tacular and breathtaking canyons in the remote fond memories of our western railroads adven- wilderness of the two-million acre San Juan ture. (Breakfast) National Forest. The locomotives used today remain 100% coal-fired, steam-operated and are Denver, Colorado Cancellation Fee Waiver (CFW) On a Mayflower Motorcoach tour, the cost of the tour is refundable less the deposit amount when cancellations are made more than 30 days prior to departure. If you pur- chase the optional Cancellation Fee Waiver (CFW), you will be refunded all payments, less the $60 for the CFW. 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