Colorado Rockies

Windwalker55 wrote:
It is also an easy drive to Telluride and Salida, two other interesting towns to visit.

Telluride is a four hour drive from Buena Vista. You'd do better to pick a spot around Ouray or Durango to visit Telluride.

We work camped at the Buena Vista KOA a couple of summers ago. It is a great area to visit. We did everything from climbing a couple of 14ers, hiking, rafting, renting ATVs, and horseback riding. There are ghost towns and some great fishing, plus a lot of mountain roads to explore as well as some hot springs to enjoy. The KOA is a very nice campground with full hookups at a lot of sites. If you need 50 amp you should be sure and specify that though, there are only a couple of 50 amp sites.
Here is a link to the campground.

Buena Vista KOA

Here is a link to the chamber of commerce site.

Buena Vista CO

It is also an easy drive to Telluride and Salida, two other interesting towns to visit.

Allworth wrote:
Durango-Silverton-Ouray

Anywhere on Route 50. From Canyon City, over Monarch, to Grand Junction.

Gunnison-Lake City-Creede.

That is about two years worth of Summers without getting North of the Interstate.

X2 Ridgeway state park is nice. Lots of beautiful drives (Million dollar Highway 550) and great parks.

Colorado is for hikers. Best place in the country to hike to 14,000 ft. asl. The tundra, land without trees is beautiful. Take your time the first 7-10 days getting use to the altitude. Be in shape before you arrive in Colorado. I am 67 and a heart patient, so if I can do mt. hiking, you can too. My single favorite place in CO is RMNP. There are so many wonderful trails there. Neptune Mountaineering in Boulder has everything you need for hiking. I am talking mostly about day hiking as the packs get too heavy for multi-day hikes. Buy the best boots you can. In fact good gear makes all the difference. Get out see the country get some exercise sleep good loose some wt.

Ken is right - I should have been more specific. I said Buena Vista but the Salida north to Leadville is better stated....B V is in the middle. Love Leadville. And you can drive Independence Pass as well. Oh, and St. Elmo -- wonderful restored town (not totally a ghost town).

How about the upper Arkansas Valley from Salida north to Leadville? Open to new adventures? They have lots of hiking, 14,000' peaks to climb, river rafting for all abilities and ages, mountain bike trails, ghost towns, fishing, 4x4 trails over high mountain passes. Check out this link and download the visitors guide for lots of ideas. Even their website address says it all: Now This is Colorado!

One of our favorite areas to visit is Breckenridge. It's pretty centrally located in the Colorado mountains. There is a very nice RV resort called Tiger Run RV Resort that caters to big rigs. Tiger Run is the nicest RV park we have every visited. We are not skiers so we visit Breckenridge during the summer every year. We enjoy 4-wheeling in our Jeep and there are lots of great trails in that area. There is lots of hiking and trout fishing in that area as well. There is a rodeo in Breckenridge during the summer and great dining and shopping in town. The gondola is open during the summer and we always ride that up for the great views, lunch and there is a fun park up there the kids really like. Mountain biking is very popular in the area as well.

x2 on wildbyon - forgot to mention that!

Our favorite area is Silverton-Ouray-Telluride. Absolutely georgeous scenery with awesome 4-wheeling trails, lots of mining history to explore with some good trout fishing thrown in for grins.

Our 2nd choice for a more rustic experience is Taylor Park, between Buena Vista and Crested Butte. Georgeous scenery with awesome 4-wheeling trails, some mining history to explore with some good trout fishing thrown in.

Guess you can tell what we like to do.

Having lived in Estes Park for several years I would normally recommend that. But, as you may know, Estes Park and that whole area got devastated by a huge flood a couple of months ago and not sure what or how damage was done in RMNP.

Estes if very hard to get to now until the highways are re-built. There are temporary roads in in some cases but not sure how good they are for RV travel; have heard some recommend against it.

Last time up there - couple of years ago - we stay at Riverview in Loveland and did day trips up; that might be the best bet now but you best check with them as they got hit by the flood as well. Even prior to the flood the RV parks in Estes had all really gone downhill.

I do NOT recommend staying one the west side; virtually a minimal park of the park on the west side as far as hiking or doing anything. Nearly all the Park activities are on the Estes side and that is a long haul from Grand Lake area (50 miles over Trail Ridge Road if it is open - closed in the winter and prior to that was for residents of Estes or authorized vehicles only).

We have - in recent years - spent more time in the Buena Vista and Montrose areas and love them.

Lots of good places to go and much to see - beautiful place.