Thursday, July 1st, we headed for Yampa River SP. The park is mostly gravel, no trees, right by a highway, has lots of kids, big dogs barking, and rain falling. So after a lot of thought we decided to head to Routt National Mountain to look for a better campground. Big big mistake. The road off the main highway was ok, then got bad and then really bad. Mostly one lane gravel. Around a mountain pulling a trailer. No phone service. No guard rails. No traffic. A lot of falling rock signs. After an hour of white knuckling we finally found a spot to turn around by a lone Mexican with wild horses on the road. Note to self: turn around immediately on gravel mountain road.
Friday we headed to Rifle CO. We took a chance and found a great spot at Rifle Mountain Park which is very popular for rock climbing. Unfortunately I forgot to pack my rock climbing gear so that’s out. As soon as we got all set up a huge storm passed over. Our site is downhill so the mud and water came right thru our site.
Happy 4th of July. We moved to Rifle Gap State Park. According to ranger this is the most popular state park in Colorado and we can see why.
On Monday we headed to Utah. Unfortunately our camper jack got loose when we hit a bump so Gary worked on it in the Walmart parking lot for an hour but it’s fixed and we made it to Dead Horse Point SP in Utah. It’s funny how much you appreciate a flush toilet after 3 days without. I almost cried. We went to see rock arches in Canyonland National Park and checked out Moab for lunch on Tuesday. Unfortunately it’s so hot it’s hard to be outside for long.
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