Estes Park campgrounds and green jeep tours

Lauren wrote:
Lived in Estes 8 years after retiring....moved out in 2003. We thought the crowds were terrible then (one of the reasons for moving) and they are far worse now. We keep in touch with people there who are of the type that tell it like it is....kinda like me.

Let's see - your have a 27 foot class C, no toad and no mountain driving experience. Just getting to Estes is mountain driving and, even with low crowds the downtown is packed and parking - even for a car - can be a challenge.

And you could have snow in early to mid June to top it off.

Rocky Mtn NP used to be a beautiful place but disrespectful people, pine beetle killing many of the trees at higher altitudes, overcrowding, very high prices in marginal rv parks have all contributed to its fall from grace. Say nothing of the infighting in the Town politics....all suffer their actions.

We spend our time now in CO over in the San Juans - love Buena Vista.

Email or PM me if you wish more info.

Although we have never met, Lauren and I are soul mates. We lived in EP from 1980 until 2010. Wife's family first went there in 1917. I was introduced to EP in 1969. Then it became my go to place.

When I retired in 2010, I couldn't wait to leave. The chaos and gridlock ruined it for us.

Don't know a thing about the Jeep tour company you are looking at, but you will just get wind and bugs in your face not wilderness. Because it is a National Park, you won't get a real Jeep experience. There are a few off road experiences in the area, but they will not take you there.

We moved to Buena Vista because it reminded of us of what why two hippies moved to Colorado. Don't waste your time going to EP unless you like New York City. John Denver's Colorado is hard to find. Even Buena Vista has been discovered. Don't know where to go to next.