trailernovice wrote:
I'd appreciate any recommendations re. Colorado state parks in the Denver/four hours or less west of Denver area...this would be a summer trip, so 'it's a great skiing area' is unimportant...
Would be pulling rig in signature...are there any state parks that are difficult/impossible to access with a truck/trailer combination like ours?
Do the colorado state parks get booked up for summer visits, such at it's critical to make a reservation months in advance?
We'd want to stay somewhere in the Denver area, camping in the mountains
Thanks for input
If you're talking about THIS year, you're likely out of luck. The state parks here have a 180 day window for reservations and they fill fast, from Memorial Day through Labour Day. I went to try to fill some holes in my camping schedule and checked a few state parks. There were no sites available for the weekends I was looking for.
In the Denver area, there's Cherry Creek and Chatfield SPs. North of Denver are St. Vrain in Longmont and Boyd Lake in Loveland. Northwest of Denver is Golden Gate Canyon SP between Golden and Black Hawk.
In Colorado Springs there's Cheyenne Mountain and to the west, Mueller SP. Further west of the Springs would be Eleven Mile.
There's also state parks over between Vail and Grand Junction. All of the ones noted would probably be within your 4 hour drive limit.
