San Juan Scenic Jeep Tours
The 1890s stagecoach company carrying passengers from the Hotel Western to the San Juan high country boasted the ride as the "grandest in the land." Now you can experience the 1880s and the world of prospectors, adventurers and mountaineers with your own ride on those high cliff-hanging stage and wagon roads! You can see firsthand the old mining ghost towns above Ouray, Silverton, Telluride and Lake city with the guides of Colorado's first and original Jeep Tour company. Established in 1946, this granddaddy of high-mountain tour companies (featured twice in National Geographic, CBS Colorado Getaways, Jeep Journal, Washington Post, L.A. Times, et al) is officed in the lobby of the Historic Western Hotel in Ouray. For more information - just ask us! We aim to be the friendliest tour place in town!
Note: We were the only jeep tour company in Ouray for almost 40 years (two generations!) before the two competing companies (also on 7th avenue) began tour operations in the 1980's and '90's. We were on main street and red in color for all those years until the new companies started up and painted their trucks...red...we changed our fleet color to yellow to distinguish ourselves...and a yellow tour truck appeared in the neighbors fleet...! So please come all the way down 7th avenue "into" the old Western Hotel doors under it's old western veranda spanning the sidewalk to find us.