Autumn Camping along the Cache La Poudre

What a pretty area of the USA. I hope the Big Thompson recovers quickly, we always like to spend a few days at Estes every couple of years.

Very nice! Thanks for posting.

Pretty!!

Yup, the September and October months are surely two of the best months here in Colorado and the Poudre Canyon is still pretty spectacular, even after the fire, as can be seen in your photo. Little snow coming in this weekend, just to "freshen up" the mountain peaks.

So, pretty!! I wish it would turn "fall" here. 90 today!

It's beautiful. So glad that you were able to enjoy yourselves.

So sad to hear about the flooding and fires. DH and I were going back to Estes in Jan to celebrate our 15th anniversary (honeymoon). I guess that will have to be postponed.

When one hears about a wildfire burning through an area they tend to think that everything there is toast. As you show they actually often leave patches untouched. Your spot looked particularly inviting with its cool stream set under the burned hillside.

campn4walleye I think I saw where hwy 36 from Lyons to Estes Park will reopen the end of Oct. and Hwy 34 from Loveland to Estes will reopen Dec 1st. of course these are projections so could change.

Bill

wohtex wrote:
campn4walleye I think I saw where hwy 36 from Lyons to Estes Park will reopen the end of Oct. and Hwy 34 from Loveland to Estes will reopen Dec 1st. of course these are projections so could change.

Bill

Regardless, the "peak to peak" is open all the way from Blackhawk to Estes Park. Our canyon (72) will not open until around December 1st. My commute went from 50 minutes to 1:50. So what the heck, we have a campsite in Golden for this month, and may stay next month too. Nice excuse to live in the camper for a month or two, while still able to go home at times, and leave to go camping elsewhere as well. Fall in the front range is beautiful.

Sweet campsite you found there.

GoinThisAway wrote:
When one hears about a wildfire burning through an area they tend to think that everything there is toast. As you show they actually often leave patches untouched. Your spot looked particularly inviting with its cool stream set under the burned hillside.

One other thing you see is that fires more around in a vertical sense as well. My uncle lost his home of 37 years (and everything else on the proeprty) in the Black Forest fire back in June. I have been working reclaiming his property and removing all the debris, foundations etc. and have been going down every few weekends for the last month and a half. It is amazing to see how some sections were a ground fire and it raced along burning the grasses and lowest limbs, but not touching the middle or tops of the trees. In other places, the crowns burned but not the bottoms of the trees. Of course there are also both completely black-as-night sections where every living thing was burned and completely untouched sections. I find it fascinating every time I drive down to his property at that variance, especially in the vertical sense. I would have no problem putting a house right there in the middle of the Black Forest and watching it gradually recover. His views of the mountains improved and the grasses are amazing. But he's in his mid-70's and doesn't want to rebuild because he doesn't think he'll be around long enough for the forest to come back. But that concrete pad from the garage will likely make a great camping site for his nephew ;)