Location / Name: Stillwater Campground (USFS), Granby, CO

Date: 08/26/2016 (1 night)

Stillwater Campground is a US Forestry Service campground on Lake Granby, after you exit the Rocky Mountains National Park on US 34, our planned route. I wasn’t sure how far I’d travel the next day, but this positioned us nicely for a push on toward Moab, and made for a reasonable travel distance through the park so we could take our time enjoying the views. This was one of only 2 reservations I made prior to starting on our trip. A good thing, the campground was full when we arrived; not unexpected for the start of a weekend. This was our favorite campground, not only because it is a nice campground (which it is) but also because of the majestic surroundings.

T@b at Stillwater Campground, Grandby CO

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Location / Name: The Prospect RV Park, Wheat Ridge, CO

Date: 08/25/2016 (1 night)

The Prospect RV Park, Wheat Ridge, CO showed up on a Google search for campgrounds in the vicinity of about 300 miles (328) from my prior stop on our August 2016 trip to Boise; prior stop being in Ellis, KS. It had good reviews, and was on the west side of Denver where I wanted to be, wasn’t too expensive, so that became my target. In retrospect I’m not sure I would do it again since I like more space than the parking-lot style commercial campground this turned out to be, but for an overnighter in the Denver area, it isn’t bad – clean bathrooms and friendly staff.

Apologies (again) – I didn’t get photos of this campground.  Here’s a “morning after” picture of  Colorado.

We reached an altitude of 12,090′ towing our T@b over US34 in Rocky Mountain National Park

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