Location & Map
- When – July, 2020
- Weather – Very comfortable, (no AC required in the evening)
Facilities
- Notes
- We enjoyed several days at this park with side trips to:
- Sand Dunes National Park (a side trip on the way to the park)
- Telluride
- Ouray
- Ridgway
- Montrose
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
- Ridgway is a nice clean park with hiking, boating, and swimming for everyone.
- The sites have large asphalt pads that were fairly level!
- Many of the walkways are paved and all the paths are maintained.
- No water at the sites, but close enough to run a hose for filling.
- Some shade on pads and plenty of room for our screen room.
- We enjoyed several days at this park with side trips to:
- Park Map
What we liked / disliked
- Notes
- The picnic tables are on concrete and a separate tent pad with most sites
- Privacy between pads with trees
- Clean restrooms & showers
- No need to check in at park office if you have reservations, (reservations are a must this summer)
- Multiple laundry units accessible between camping loops
- Limited TV, but full 4G Cell service
Photos
Mountain and Lake Views 
Lake 
Our site 
Site and path to table 
Our co-pilot after a long day 
Observation platform 
Lake 
Lake
Day Trips:
Sand Dunes National Park
Telluride
- Telluride MIGHT be beautiful… however, because the city has:
- no traffic lights and horrible traffic!
- no parking
- road construction everywhere
- Our experience was not memorable!
Ouray
- This is a quaint mountain town that supports a huge winter ice climbing festival.
- In the summer months, OHV seem to own the back roads.
- We drove up to the Bird Creek Gold mine – lots of single track road and dusty OHV action.
Ridgeway
- This little mountain town serves as a supply station for the park.
- There is a memorial to Dennis Weaver outside of the town which is very relaxing.
Montrose
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
- For full services, fuel groceries, and competitive prices, head to Montrose!
