October trip to Southwestern Colorado
We are planning a trip to the Ouray region of Colorado in early October. Normally we stay in Rocky Mt. National Park near Grand Lake, but the pine beetles have destroyed the trees in the campground we...
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Coolerman wrote:
Thanks for the replies!
With our old pop-up, dry camping was the norm so we never worried about camping late in the year. Most state parks were fine. This new TT will take a while to get it figured out for dry camping. So we want to hookup at least the electric for our first long trip with it.
Ridgway is one of the ones I'm looking at. I will call them today to ask how busy they are during the first two weeks of October. Though it has beautiful views, I just don't much care for how close together the sites are and how open it is. My wife and I like our privacy, and prefer a site with trees. Of course if no one is there it will be semi- private!
Look into one of those 2000 watt super quiet generators (Honda - Ryobi - Genrerac) to allow you to go off site and boondock. I used a couple the last couple of years building houses and was able to run them all day on a gallon of gas - they are really quiet and IMHO are just GREAT. They may allow you to do the same things you used to do in the Pop Up.
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