If you missed last week's video of Aspen Glade Campground, which is also along the Conejos
River, be sure to check it out.
In that video, we show some of the tourist attractions in Antonito and provide a little
more info on this area.
We're just down the road from Aspen Glade Campground for today's video.
The correct pronunciation is muh-goaty.
We were talking to our campground host after recording this video and realized that we
were incorrectly calling it muh-goat as we recorded this video which you're about to
watch.
Fisherman parking to the left.
The Juniper Group Area is left
Mogote Campground in the Rio Grande National Forest.
Reservations for campsites here can be made online at recreation.gov
14-day stay limit.
Fees are 26 dollars per night
To the right sites 1 through 21 and then the lower loops down along the Conejos River sites
22 to 41.
We'll go check those out after this first loop
Site number one is a pull-through
Campground host is the red Toyota
Number three is the one on the right.
Driving through number four
This upper loop here is meant for bigger RVs.
Some drinking water that does not have a water hose connection if you're thinking about filling
up your RV.
Site five on the right and then the dirt road.
Short dirt road in off the highway is behind it.
Seven going off to the right.
It'll be also against the road coming in.
Pulling through site number six
Site nine is the next pull-through in front of us.
You'll have eight on the right-side camera.
Which is a long pull-through.
Yeah, you'll see once we get down in the lower loop the sights are really tight and uh closed
in.
A lot of vegetation
10 on the right.
Again these sites on the right are closest to the road in as well as the highway
10 was a pull-through.
11 back-in site on the left.
12 was another back-in on the left
13.
Let's pull through this one
So this campground was originally gonna be recorded two, over two years ago, and was
gonna be I think our 154th campground that we visited.
We rolled up.
Site 14 in front of us.
We rolled up to the gate and found it locked.
We came on a Friday.
It was like 10 days before Memorial Day.
15 on the left.
Let's pull through 16.
Water pump on the left.
There's a water spigot across from 16 here that we're pulling through
So instead of recording all of the campgrounds up this way, we ended up going over and camping
at the Alamosa campground along the Alamosa River and just have not made it back down
this far south since then.
Until now
We're actually camping just up the road at the Aspen Glen campground also along the Conejos
River.
Aspen Glade
Oh yeah, Aspen Glade.
It's also right on the Conejos River.
Just backed out of 17.
18 will be on the right
Pulling through nineteen
It's site number 20 on the right
Good.
How's it going?
20 is a really long one
Wouldn't surprise me if 20 is a double fee site because it looked like it had two picnic
tables.
Oh no, 20 and 21 share the pull-through.
That's weird.
I guess if you have two campers
Alright, down to the lower loop.
I thought maybe we'd get a campsite down here but it just uh not.
The ones right on the river were already taken so we decided to go up the road and Aspen
Glade had one with a nice view.
Too much vegetation for me
There's two loops down here in the bottom
Elevation here just in case GoPro fails again it's 8416 at the moment
Is that a rat or a mouse?
It did not look like a chipmunk.
I missed it.
So about a mile back before the campground entrance towards Antonito, there is a little
store that has some supplies for you.
The Fox Creek Store.
Site 22 on our left.
We'll get a better view of that one coming back out.
23 is also there on the left.
We're gonna go right and loop through this.
We'll come out where that exit sign is and then we'll take the other loop
33 coming up on the right
So anyway, that Fox Creek Store, they've got some groceries, a little bit of camping supplies,
um firewood.
Firewood here is eight dollars this summer.
um I think the Fox Creek store had it for 6.99
Site 34 pull-through.
It's a short pull-through on the right and 35 is across from it.
There's a lot of chipmunks down here
A lot of aspens here.
36 coming up on the right
Followed by number 37.
37 is one of the wider spots down here.
That would have been a nice one, maybe
I like the view where we're at with the river better.
38 coming up on the right and the pop-up trailer is in 39.
Wait, back up!
What do ya got?
Never mind, I think it was a chipmunk.
There was a chipmunk back there.
I thought it was something else
Site number 40.
So the next loop will be smaller sites than this.
You can see some of the smaller trailers made it down in here just fine.
The last one was 41.
So straight in front of us is the road coming, going back up to the main loop and then site
22
And we're looking in 23.
Coming up 24 on the right.
There's a water spigot.
We just passed 25 on the left.
24 I believe this was the one that had a glimpse of the river.
Yeah.
Yeah, there's a path back there and a small glimpse of the river.
26 on the bigger sites on the right.
Great river access on that one
27 on the left
Really short one there.
Um, nothing too exciting.
We'll catch that I think as we loop out of here.
28 on the right followed by 29.
Site number 30.
30s another great one for river.
That tent there was pretty close to the river.
31 on the right
There's 32.
That was 28
27 right
26 on the left and then 24 on the left and then number 25
Another look at the water
Alright, get ready to head back out of the bottom loop.
23 and 22
We'll get back up to the camground entrance we'll take you down to the fisherman's area.
You know I didn't see any bathrooms down there.
Yep It was
Coming back up to the Mogote Campground entrance.
There are two, there are two group sites here as well just outside of the main entrance.
There's a Pinion and a Juniper.
I believe the Pinion is the one that's to our left back towards the highway and to the
right is the other one.
And the fisherman parking is back here.
There's the Juniper group camping area.
The road down to the fisherman parking was a little rough and camping gear that we hadn't
unloaded was already bouncing around in the back.
So we decided to enjoy the view of the river from above
We're leaving Mogote Campground
Pinion Group Area
Looking down on some of the campsites in the upper loop.
See the camp host from here.
Yeah, there's a little bit more of an opening.
and then up to our right is the highway.
Alright so it's a state highway, not one that's going to be busy all night long
Thanks for watching!
Have a blessed day!