No, it's not the name of the next reality RV TV show! But knowing that our intrepid duo gets lots of ideas about where to go and what to do thought it might be fun to post them here. Then they can review them if they want and make decisions based on their tastes. My ulterior motive, we all get the benefit of the wealth of information among the members of this forum.

Let's keep it narrowed to their current state of ...what...being.

Colorado.

At this time of year I would stay south of I-70 and travel in this area http://www.swcolotravel.org/swtravel.html.
Pick a couple of spots in the lowlands to use as a homebase and travel around and see some of the most beautiful sights in the US.

• Creede, Creede Reperatory theatre is fun, they have a wonderful, small-town 4th of July parade
  
• Lake City: find out the history behind this quote: Damn you, Alferd Packer! There were seven Dimmycrats in Hinsdale County and you ate five of them,
  
• Ouray, with its large hot springs and beautiful waterfall
  
• Telluride-find out how the other half lives,
  
• Salida is a great place to do a trip on the Arkansas River or enjoy a cold one in a riverside cafe and watch others ride the river
  
• Weiminuche Wilderness-Peace

The drive to anywhere in this area is breathtaking.

OK, what do the rest of you have to offer in Colorful Colorado?

Just remember, no matter where you are, this next couple of weeks are some of the busiest of the season.

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What, no one else has been to Colorado? C'mon, I know y'all have ideas.

Judy

Gold Camp Rd. (scenic drive) Up in the mountains, just West of Colorado Springs.

Has anyone been to TinCup? I doubt that H & L would want to pull their rig up there (elev is over 10,000 ft !) but I'm sure there's camping in Gunnison. Its a nice drive up to Taylor Park and on into TinCup. TinCup was a mining town back in the late 1800's then became a "ghost town" for several years. Now its mostly summer cabins but there's some good fly fishing and lots of trails. DH and I actually lived there for a couple of years back in the late 70's. He and his dad built several of the log cabins around there. Beautiful scenery! Our son and his wife were just out there for a few days and loved it. Hope we can get out there again someday but doubt that our F150 would pull our trailer up Cottonwood Pass! Janet (aka BeamerCat)

We camped in a tent on the river just outside Gunnison and it was beautiful!  We could watch the flyfisherman in their float tubes from our campsite. Our biggest (we thought) challenge was keeping the boys, then about 5 and 7, out of the fast flowing river. Then it rained, as it does in the late summer in the mtns, and this campground was a little low...You know the rest of the story, anyone who's tried to dry out 4 sleeping bags before the next night knows what I'm talkin' about.  We decided that year that maybe it was time to move up off the ground. We bought a pop-up!

but that wasn't the end of the camping mishaps...

We got the pop-up and a couple of years later we were back in CO. I had always wanted to camp at Ridgway State Park in CO. A lot to do; hiking, fishing all within the park itself, no big drives and with young kids it's great to have something to do that you can walk to and all within breathtaking landscape. We pulled into the park in the late afternoon and found a spot (this was midweek in Sept). I had the dinner menu planned and would cook while he set up camp and the boys played. As the pop-up is being popped-up (this is an older crank up model) I begin to hear that low-level, under the breath, expletive deleted sort of sound from the DH. You know ,the sound that makes your stomach to a flip-flop and you have that sense of impending doom. "What's wrong?" I asked, hoping the answer would be "oh, I just scratched my knuckle". "I think I broke the trailer" he says. In the hurry to set-up he had forgotten to unlatch one of the latches (where was that darn check-list?) "You did whaaatt???!!!" was my supportive spousal reply. He was right, he broke it, wouldn't go up, wouldn't go down. We ate, and hit the road for a motel in Montrose. Next morning, called a couple of places-"We can maybe get you in next week". We ended up cutting the cables, buying some 2xs to prop it up and finishing out the trip.

Now that's camping!

Excuse me as I hijack my own thread!

-- Edited by Judy the Other at 20:31, 2007-07-03