Three words to describe Bishop's Castle? Weird, terrifying, and fascinating.
Mike, Heather and Andrew ready to check out Bishop's Castle!
While out in Westcliffe, Mike and I were excited to really check out some of things to do and see around there. Our trip the year before was so quick we felt that we didn't have a lot of time to explore what all Westcliffe had to offer.
Heather under one of the stone archways.

Think these stairs look a little sketchy? Yeah, they're worse in real life.
I had a minor freakout halfway up.
So, a quick history of Bishop's Castle...since 1969 Jim Bishop has been constructing this elaborate castle on the side of a mountain. He's an eccentric, anti-government guy - so parents be warned - there are lots of anti-government, blunt rants posted all over the castle's grounds, which makes it just that much more of a strange experience. Wikipedia has a pretty good description of the place - it's really hard to explain in a few sentences, and really, you have to see it to believe it.
Stained glass in the main room of the castle.
The castle has been constructed of natural stone and metal, and features a fire-breathing dragon at the top of one of the towers. He keeps working on the castle non-stop so that it's always in construction mode and he doesn't have to pay property taxes.
Heather checks out all the natural stone it took to construct the castle.
I nervously stepped out for one photo to prove I was there.
Definitely faced a lot of fears that day up on the castle. But you know what? It was fascinating.
We made it!
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