OakCreek Colorado

Oak Creek Colorado has been on my Visit Bucket List forever now. It is the tiny town (if it could be so classified) that my father grew up in. It is just outside of Steamboat Colorado, which is a large tourist attraction for all seasons of fun.

Since this years Family Reunion is in Colorado we decided why not take the extra little drive and finally go see it.

We stopped in Steamboat to play in the river and cool off. There were people floating down the stream on little rafts, and bicyclists everywhere. As soon as the kids were tired of swimming we continued our drive over to Oak Creek.

Oak Creek is the tiniest town I have seen! There isn't much there, just a quiet bunch of houses and worn out buildings. IWhat little there was of the "Town" was under road construction. But there was this adorable little restaurant at the top of the hill called "Kate's Cafe" so we stopped for lunch.

It was very cute inside. The kind of tiny restaurant shop old people in the community might hang out at to have coffee and visit each other. The food there is all made from scratch. 

 When our food was done we took it down to the city park and had a picnic as a family. We had the vegetarian pizza, which my parents adore. I wasn't a big fan of the pine nuts and peppers flavoring it, but it wasn't bad.

 Someone who lives on Main Street painted this on the side wall of their house. And tourists stop to find inner peach and get a picture.

 Harley is a Shakra hog.

But it made for some unique pictures...

 And good snapchat stories.

On our way back through Steamboat we were almost T-boned at an intersection. We were at the light turning right. And a large truck was across from us signaling to turn left. So we were both headed for the same single lane. As we went to turn his light turned yellow so he rushed to make the turn before it was red and we were mid turn into that lane. Mike swerved up onto the sidewalk and the truck swerved the other way and passed us. Luckily we didn't get hit but when you suddenly jump a curb (especially in a low riding car) it doesn't go too well.

So before making our journey home we had to have the tires rotated so that the damaged one was on the back incase of a blow out. It didn't damage any of the wires inside, but just to be safe we didn't want it on the front.

To see all the video clips of our OakCreek Adventure check out our YouTube channel!