Camp Ground South Colorado

We have tent-camped at Lathrop State Park and it looked like it had good RV parking. Not sure it will have the "fun" stuff you are looking for but it is a good place to camp for us.

take a look at Castle Lakes Campground out of Lake City hard to beat

kennethwooster wrote:
For the past several years we have been staying at Fun Valley at Southfork Colorado. We like the area but needing something different. Would also like to find a park that is more modern. It's a fun place to be but just a little tired of it. Any suggestions.

Southern Colorado is a fairly broad area, with diverse interests. Depends on what meets your needs. You may want to consider some of the state parks in southern Colorado. H E R E is the link to the state parks website, scroll down and on the left there's a map and a drop down with the various parks that may be of interest to you down there.

If the southwest part of the state interests you, there's a variety of good private parks/campgrounds in the Durango and Cortez area. Also some good ones in the Salida/Buena Vista area. Guess it depends on how broad an area you consider southern Colorado.

You might try exploring a completely different area for a fresh outlook. Going to the same park time after time would get very old for us.

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.

:)
Lynn

There is a nice park in Bayfield east of Durango. We only stopped overnight but plan to go back.

Park site