Today on Campground Recon we're at Bucks Campground, which is our fifth and final
campground that we're going to feature at Trappers Lake on the edge of the Flat Tops Wilderness Area.
Buck's Campground will also be our 10th and final campground in the Blanco Ranger District,
which is the area of the White River National Forest east of Meeker Colorado
and kind of northeast of Rifle. Our Thursday campground tours will continue.
Next up, we'll visit a couple of campgrounds in the Routt National Forest and then after
that we'll head towards southwest Colorado. We recorded a number of campgrounds around Durango,
Silverton, uh Ouray, Dolores. So, we've got enough campground videos that you'll see one every
Thursday up through May. We'll do a drive through the Bucks Campground here in a second and after
that we'll walk through and show you a close-up of a couple of the sites that were vacant.
We're just leaving the RV dump station which is right across the road from Buck's Campground.
Alright, we've got 10 campsites in a single loop here.
Site number one is the pull-off on the right side. Two on our left.
Number three will be on the right.
Site four is where the white car is. Six is on our left and site five here on the right. We'll
get out and check out site five right now. So, out of the five campgrounds at Trappers Lake,
the only campsite that has a view of the lake itself is site five here.
Campsites at Buck's Campground are twenty dollars per night.
It is a first come first serve campground.
Probably the best view of Trappers Lake from any of the campsites.
Down in the bottom left there is Scott's lake.
Out of the 10 campgrounds that we featured in Blanco Ranger District,
the only two that have accepted reservations are Shepherds Rim here at Trappers Lake and
the North Fork Campground. Otherwise, this area is all first come first.
Let's finish our drive through the campground and
then we'll walk back through and show you some of the other sites
Six is a pretty good size one. You'll see a clip of it shortly.
Site seven is just this little pull off.
Water station is on our left. Site number eight
and site number ten.
and we're passing back by site number two here on the left as we exit the campground.
So, to our left is the Shepherd's Rim Campground, Cutthroat Campground, and Trapline Campground.
At the end of this video, we'll show you just some highlights of things in the area.
We camped at Cutthroat Campground for six nights and that video has quite a bit of information on
different hiking trails and things to do in the area, where you can go get showers, and so on.
We'll put in some highlights of that here at the end of this video.
The Horse Thief Campground which was our last video is off to the left and the Scotts Lake
Trailhead is off to our right. Let's go back and take a look at the campsites. Site number one
Buck's Campground site three
Pretty good size pull off. Mostly level
Low fire grate and tent pad up here.
Truck is in site six
No tent pad on this one.
Caught a glimpse of the lake through the trees. Probably can't make it out in the
video. Looks like there's a path going down to it.
There's water and a fire ring. Do you see a number?
Here's Buck's number eight.
Two small cars could do a side by side in the parking
Nice area for a tent
I don't know if that's a campsite over there. It does have a table and a fire ring
If you missed our recent video on Cutthroat Campground be sure to check that out. We go into
a lot more detail on the things to do in the area. Here are some of the highlights from that video.
Thanks for watching! Have a blessed day!