By Duane Vandenbusche Dave Wood was tired. In 1877, the great freighter of Western Colorado and his 50-man crew had built the first rough road into Taylor Park and Gunnison County, one year after Colorado became a state. Trails existed from the Arkansas River on the Eastern Slope to Taylor Park on the Western Slope, but this was the first road one could take a wagon over. One could make it with mules pulling the wagons. The road allowed men to follow others like Jim Taylor and Fred Lottis who had come to Taylor Park over Lake Pass at the north end of the park in the ...
