I accidentally ended up on some weird dirt road there, and kept driving for awhile waiting for it to loop around or something, but it just kept winding into the hills and getting progressively less scenic, plus the rain was coming back. Finally turned around and went back.

Speaking of the rain, when we were in walking in actual Garden of the Gods, a major thunderstorm rolled in with tons of scary lightning in the distance, which started getting closer and closer. We unfortunately had to abort and get back to the car.

Same thing happened at the north rim of the Grand Canyon, but worse. Lightning struck in the same parking lot (!!) as we were rushing to get back to the car. Fortunately it didn't hit anyone.