Synopses & Reviews
If you subscribe to the opinion that televisions, Japanese lanterns, and electric guitars are not essential camping equipment, then The Best in Tent Camping: Colorado should be your constant companion.
Colorado is known for the Rockies, cobalt skies, deep forests, and snow-fed mountain streams, but there are other attractions as well: Mesa Verde, the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, the Great Sand Dunes near the Sangre de Cristo Range, the Uncompahgre Plateau, and more.
The Best in Tent Camping: Colorado is a guidebook for tent campers who like scenic and serene campsites. It's the perfect resource if you blanch at the thought of pitching your tent on a concrete slab and waking up to find your tent surrounded by a convoy of RVs.
The Best in Tent Camping: Colorado will guide you to the quietest, most beautiful, most secure, and best managed campgrounds in the Centennial State. Painstakingly selected from hundreds of camping options, each profiled campground is rated for beauty, noise, privacy, security, spaciousness, and cleanliness.
Each campground profile gives unbiased and thorough evaluations, taking the guesswork out of finding the perfect site. Essential details on facilities, reservations, fees, and restrictions, as well as an accurate, easy-to-read campground map make planning your trip a snap. Also included are suggestions for nearby outdoor recreation and sightseeing, pinpointing attractions that often go unnoticed.
Synopsis
Colorado has hundreds of campgrounds and millions of acres of public lands, so picking 50 of the best campsites was not an easy task. In addition to the expected spectacular alpine mountainscapes are the lakes and rivers, canyons, and arid places that are just as gorgeous as the high country. Discover Irish Canyon in the northwest corner of the state where Butch Cassidy and his gang hid out between heists. Travel to central Colorado and the White River Plateau and enjoy the scenery while camping at Supply Basin. Pitch a tent in North Crestone amid the maples, alders, aspens, and Douglas fir to name a few of the trees in the Rio Grande National Forest. Beyond the campgrounds, follow author Johnny Molloy's suggestions for rafting, fishing, caving, mountain biking, and recalling Colorado's history.
Synopsis
Colorado is known for the Rockies, cobalt skies, deep forests, and snow-fed mountain streams, but there are other attractions as well: Mesa Verde, the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, the Great Sand Dunes near the Sangre de Cristo Range, the Uncompahgre Plateau, and more. The Best in Tent Camping: Colorado will guide you to the quietest, most beautiful, most secure, and best managed campgrounds in the Centennial State. Painstakingly selected from hundreds of camping options, each profiled campground is rated for beauty, noise, privacy, security, spaciousness, and cleanliness. Also included are suggestions for nearby outdoor recreation and sightseeing, pinpointing attractions that often go unnoticed.
Synopsis
Offering essential details on facilities, reservations, fees, and more as well as accurate, easy-to-read maps, The Best in Tent Camping: Colorado will lead you to the 50 best campgrounds in the state.
Table of Contents
(1) Introduction (2) Browns Park (3) Byers Creek (4) Cold Springs (5) The Crags (6) Dinosaur National Monument (7) Golden Gate Canyon State Park (8) Irish Canyon (9) Jacks Gulch (10) Longs Peak (11) Rainbow Lakes (12) Rifle Falls State Park (13) Shepherds Rim (14) Steamboat Lake State Park (15) Timber Creek (16) Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument (17) Buffalo (18) Colorado National Monument (19) Cottonwood Lake (20) Curecanti (21) Dominguez Canyon (22) Elbert Creek (23) Fulford Cave (24) Geneva Park (25) Gold Park (26) Kite Lake (27) Lost Lake (28) Lost Park (29) Mirror Lake (30) Mueller State Park (31) Ruby Mountain (32) Supply Basin (33) Weir & Johnson (34) Weston Pass (35) Alvarado (36) Bear Lake (37) Burro Bridge (38) Cathedral (39) Great Sand Dunes (40) Lost Trail (41) Mesa Verde (42) Mix Lake (43) North Crestone (44) Ridgway State Park (45) Rio Blanco (46) Silver Jack (47) Stone Cellar (48) Transfer Park (49) Trujillo Meadows (50) The Prairie (51) Bonny Lake (52) Jackson Lake