Colorado July 2017

Floridafrances wrote:
Hi all,

We normally try to avoid making our month-long trip at this time of year, but circumstances beyond our control dictate our dates this time. Plan is to leave home Tuesday, June 27th and return a month, or so, later.

............ - Glacier Basin CG in Rocky Mountain NP for July 18th & 19th. Have a nice-looking site in Loop A which I was thankful to get. .......... I wanted to secure a spot in RMNP first, and build our trip around that.

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Tom and I are reasonably fit for our ages(72&68) and
love day hiking,
photography, taking the
Jeep on back roads (paved or not), and getting
away from crowds to enjoy the
scenery and wildlife.
Cities aren't our thing, although we do
enjoy museums that focus on
natural history,
geology,
early culture, etc.

I've gotten great advice here in the past (and hope I've given some, too, when able) so I'm looking forward to seeing your responses. And, yes, I'll be posting this in the "other" RV website forum. ;)

As you've been to Ouray/Silverton/Lake City - I'll not re suggest it - BUT - everytime we go I start to work on the plan to get back.

Guessing you've already done Marble and Maroon Bells, Crystal Mill and Independence Pass. So I'll not push that.

So that Leaves Minturn to Red CLiff to Leadville - Turquoise Lake - The Town the Museums the 4X4 Trails the History, Quincy's and the fact that the Town is at 10,000' and it is July=Hot in Colorado - While on this section I'd Head down to the Collegiates/Buena Vista - Whitewater rafting - more trails and hikes than you can shake a stick at, along with the New National Monument - Browns Canyon plus the back road to Crested Butte.

So if the list you posted is accurate, and if you spend a few days in RMNP - then a few days on Peak to Peak, go through Eisenhower Tunnel and then Past Vail to RT 24 Minturn/Red Cliff and on over to Leadville I think you will be pretty Happy with your trip to Colorado this Year.

Now the issue is - when will you come back and really enjoy the State - so much more to see - but just never enough TIME.

Hope this is of some help,