Best way to find hookups or parks
Hi everyone. I am so new at this that we haven't purchased our RV yet. We have been looking and searching for the perfect model in our price range for long term living possibly a year or more. My husb...
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Several comments.
I work in the Oil and Gas industry in Colorado - what refinery are you talking about, as the only ones I am aware of are in Commerce City? I am unaware of any new ones being built.
You say "now that the oil fields and pipelines are running all through Colorado." - they have been for over half a century.
As a Colorado RV'er, living to the east of the mountains, I have to say that while the winter weather is not as harsh as in the mountains, I still beleieve that it is not conducive to comfortable full timing unless you have an all-season RV (like an Arctic Fox, for example). It is not so much the snow, but the temperatures that will be the problem. Keeping that rig warm, and the tanks unfrozen will be a major issue.
I am constantly in and around the drilling rigs here in central Colorado and have yet to see RV's near any of them. Can't imagine I'd want to be trying to sleep in one near a running rig, anyway, as they run 24/7. Just had one about a mile from my house, and even that far away was loud enough to wake us up some nights. I would want to camp as far away from a rig as possible! :)
Most campgrounds probably won't allow long term stays - the State Parks certainly don't - and you will probably have a hard job finding somewhere that will do it. Like others have said, use sites like rvparkreviews.com and do some research, or contact the local Chamber of Commerce in the town near where you want to stay and ask them if they know of anywhere.
I work in the Oil and Gas industry in Colorado - what refinery are you talking about, as the only ones I am aware of are in Commerce City? I am unaware of any new ones being built.
You say "now that the oil fields and pipelines are running all through Colorado." - they have been for over half a century.
As a Colorado RV'er, living to the east of the mountains, I have to say that while the winter weather is not as harsh as in the mountains, I still beleieve that it is not conducive to comfortable full timing unless you have an all-season RV (like an Arctic Fox, for example). It is not so much the snow, but the temperatures that will be the problem. Keeping that rig warm, and the tanks unfrozen will be a major issue.
I am constantly in and around the drilling rigs here in central Colorado and have yet to see RV's near any of them. Can't imagine I'd want to be trying to sleep in one near a running rig, anyway, as they run 24/7. Just had one about a mile from my house, and even that far away was loud enough to wake us up some nights. I would want to camp as far away from a rig as possible! :)
Most campgrounds probably won't allow long term stays - the State Parks certainly don't - and you will probably have a hard job finding somewhere that will do it. Like others have said, use sites like rvparkreviews.com and do some research, or contact the local Chamber of Commerce in the town near where you want to stay and ask them if they know of anywhere.
