ooooooooooo.... will just miss you. Headed back home (Colorado) for a visit at the end of May.
Have a "
Fat Tire Ale" for me, enjoy the trip. I will have to agree (with extreme bias), a train trip through the Rockies is a grand site...
I used to live in Durango back in the early 80's. Since your traveling the 550, I'd recommend additional stops in Ouray / Silverton with a "side trip" to Telluride for the Mountain Film Festival... (
http://www.visittelluride.com/festiv...film-telluride)
Denver University have an observatory on
Mt Evans, but to be honest, it's out of the way if you are headed west on I-70 to US550.
I'm not aware of any public observatories along the San Juan range, but there are Chaco and Anasazi archeoastronomical sites populated along SW Colorado and NW New Mexico, if that's of interest to you...
OIC!