Kind of surprising that you received little response on this!
What I'd suggest is that you pick a location/place and then locate a campground at or near that place.
To locate a place, I'd recommend that you examine the east-west routes in that region of the world. These boil down to three of them:
1. Highway 50. It'll take you from Pueblo up the Arkansas River to Salida and then across Monarch Pass to Gunnison. Then you go over a couple more smaller passes across to Montrose and on up to Grand Junction.
2. Highway 160 will take you from Walsenburg across a small pass into the San Luis Valley (Alamosa), then over Wolf Creek Pass into the Pagosa area, then westward to Durango and on to Cortez. You're familiar with part of this country from your visits to Fun Valley at South Fork.
3. Highway 64 is in northern New Mexico, pretty mountainous region! Goes from the Raton area to Cimarron, up into the Moreno Valley (Eagle Nest, Angel Fire) and over to Taos. From there, over the high country into Chama and then though the Jicarilla Apache rez toward Farmington and on to the border.
Ok, get out a map and follow each route to make selections of possible places, then ask about campgrounds.
๐Lynn
