Enjoying Colorado State Parks


We visited the shooting center, enjoying the wildlife trophies.  


 


We will be returning there soon.  We enjoy shooting on the range.

I wrote last month that our Airstream trailer had left our lot in Arizona without us.  Ever since we began RVing in 1988, we have spent days, weeks, even months each year in Colorado State Parks.  Since 2014 when we bought our house in Arizona, our annual summer visits to Colorado have been spent in camping in the parks. 

You often could find us in Cherry Creek or Chatfield in the Denver area, St. Vrain up north near Longmont, Ridgeway near Montrose, Mueller near Divide or Lathrop in Walsenburg.  They really have been our Colorado summer home.

What would we do without an RV?  We started planning for this change by renting an apartment just south of Denver in Lone Tree last summer.  We returned to Lone Tree in April.  

But this doesn't mean we won't be in any more Colorado State Parks.  Yesterday, we went to Cherry Creek where we purchased a new Aspen Leaf Park Pass.  These are available to Colorado residents age 64 or more.  

Here it is on our windshield, right above the Aspen Leaf pass that expires this month.
 
   




















After getting our pass, we walked through the campground loops where we have stayed in the past and enjoyed the views of the Colorado Rockies.  




                                        
 Colorado's parks aren't just for RVers, campers and boaters.  They also are enjoyed by walkers, hikers, bikers and picnickers.  We won't be sleeping in them any more, but we certainly will enjoy them.

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