Boondocking areas around Keystone Resort, CO??
We really want to boondock in a national forest in the Keystone Resort area. Any suggestions? This will be next may/june. Thanks!
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Need some clarification, since the term is used so loosely. Are you interested in true boondocking, off the beaten path? Basically, dispersed camping in a National Forest? Or, are you looking for dry camping in a NF campground?
From the size of your rig, if you are talking about true boondocking, I can't think of any place I would take a rig of that size. I have a much smaller trailer, so I can get more places.
I have been looking (GoogleEarth) at the roads I used to take when I lived and camped in Summit County all the time. There are more houses up there now, so more private land borders the Forest Service roads. Keystone Gulch (N39.599145 W105.974609 (just the lower part of the road, not a campsite)) used to be good, but it looks like homes have taken over the low, flatter spots. Deer Creek (N39.564285 W105.860501) above Montezuma also has more private dwellings along where I was thinking you could camp. Peru Gulch (N39.592308 W105.871142) has been gated, but is not always closed, but may only be open for hiking, but even that was a rough road.
Dry camping, there are a couple campgrounds around Frisco. I stayed in the one on the east side of Frisco a couple months ago, and it was okay, as campgrounds go. Room for your rig, but neighbors and a fee.
Clarify a bit what you are looking for, and I will continue to scan the recesses of my memory, and see what you may fit into. But, you said May/June, and that will rule-out almost everything. There is still lots of mud, if not snow, in that valley in late-May and early-June. FS campgrounds might be open then, but most of the FS roads in the area will still be gated, due to muddy conditions.
From the size of your rig, if you are talking about true boondocking, I can't think of any place I would take a rig of that size. I have a much smaller trailer, so I can get more places.
I have been looking (GoogleEarth) at the roads I used to take when I lived and camped in Summit County all the time. There are more houses up there now, so more private land borders the Forest Service roads. Keystone Gulch (N39.599145 W105.974609 (just the lower part of the road, not a campsite)) used to be good, but it looks like homes have taken over the low, flatter spots. Deer Creek (N39.564285 W105.860501) above Montezuma also has more private dwellings along where I was thinking you could camp. Peru Gulch (N39.592308 W105.871142) has been gated, but is not always closed, but may only be open for hiking, but even that was a rough road.
Dry camping, there are a couple campgrounds around Frisco. I stayed in the one on the east side of Frisco a couple months ago, and it was okay, as campgrounds go. Room for your rig, but neighbors and a fee.
Clarify a bit what you are looking for, and I will continue to scan the recesses of my memory, and see what you may fit into. But, you said May/June, and that will rule-out almost everything. There is still lots of mud, if not snow, in that valley in late-May and early-June. FS campgrounds might be open then, but most of the FS roads in the area will still be gated, due to muddy conditions.
