Today's Campground Recon video is a special one. Aspen Glade Campground
is the 250th campground in Colorado that we have recorded here on the channel.
We found a great site that was available near the Conejos River
With well over 400 designated national forest and BLM campgrounds in Colorado,
we still have a long ways to go in order to record them all.
The campground is located in the Rio Grande National Forest
west of Antonito near the border with New Mexico. We picked up supplies in
Alamosa and filled up with gas before heading south across the San Luis Valley.
Antonito has a small grocery store and a dollar store if you need any last-minute supplies
Cano's Castle was a couple of blocks from the main highway so we did a quick drive-by
The castle was built by one man and consists of mostly beer cans and other scrap metal
The Cumbres and Toltec scenic railroad is what Antonito is best known for. Passengers
on the steam train get to travel 64 miles of rail between Antonito and Chama New Mexico
Later this year in our video of Trujillo Meadows Campground
we'll catch the steam locomotive near the depot at the top of Cumbres Pass
Remains of the San Isidro church were our final stop before entering the national forest.
Welcome to our 250th Colorado campground tour!
We're at the Aspen Glade Campground in the Rio Grande National Forest.
No cell service through here at all.
Were
up in the mountains west of Antonito along the Conejos River
Got our campsite secured down in the lower loop. We'll take you down there here in a second.
So fees are $26 per night. Max stay is 14 days.
Sites 1 through 10 are to our left and kind of bunched up. 11 through 19 will be on the right,
and then 20 to 32 are down in the bottom loop down by the Conejos River.
Let's go check them out. Here on the right we've got
campsite number one followed by number two with the teardrop camper and the Subaru
Number three on the left
Number four pull through on the left
Five is the pull-off on the right with the yellow tent.
Six is the pop-up camper.
We have a water spigot
Restrooms
Campsite number seven
Campsite number eight
Nine is a really short one here
There's number 10.
10 doesn't look like it gets much use. The
grass growing up in the drive there. Alright, headed back out of here
Number four on the right
Three on the right. Two left
Number one
Alright, passing the main entrance and headed back or headed down into the second loop.
I think this is going to be number 11 on the right with the red truck.
yep.
Water spigot
Site number 12 on the right side campground host on the left
I've got a loop here
Number 13 is the Airstream. This guy's out here all by himself
14 it was in the middle of the loop as well as number 15. Get the glimpse of 15 there
16 is the camper here at the back of the loop. They've got a view down onto the river
See it out our right-side camera there. It's a little ways down
Site number 17 left side.
18 on the right. That one has electric so I'm
guessing that might be for a second uh a second campground host.
Yeah, it's a campground host because it says this on the sign.
okay you know I didn't see the sign there for another host
How do we get wood? There's a deal to pay if you want
Restrooms
All right, let's head down to the lower loop and we'll check
out the sites closest to the river and down closer to the water level
and then we'll give you an up-close look at a couple of the sites
that we can find that are empty
So right outside of the next loop, we have fisherman parking
with easy access to the river.
Alright, site number 20 on the right. River access on everything on the right side here
21
5th wheel on the right
Restrooms and dumpster on the left
22 right
Left side is a water spigot.
23 on the left that's our campsite for tonight.
We'll get to see more of that in a moment. Right side no camping on the right side. Great
views of the river and there are some steps actually going down to the river from there.
24
Right side. River access on that
25 on the right.
26 was the pull through.
Restrooms back here
There's a trail going that way too. Oh, is there a trail? Yeah,
it's probably a trail down along the river.
27 pretty good size site on the left
28 left.
29 on the right.
30 left. It's another pop-up
31 right side and then the backside of 23 there with our big blue tent. I think big blue is going
to get retired after. Piece of crap big blue tent. It's going to get retired after this trip
and 32 is the red truck
22 again and
here we are at 23.
One last look from campsite 23 at Aspen Glade Campground
Little Smokey Bear says to drown out your campfires. We don't want any fires in the forest.
Woof! Woof!
Thanks for watching! Have a blessed day!