If you're looking to escape the summer heat and go high up into the mountains
and enjoy the cool of the pines, then Colorado has exactly what you're looking for.
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How's it going I'm Jarrod Gillis, welcome to the Campendium YouTube channel
where it's our hope and our goal to provide you with the resources and the
information to get out there and camp, and today we're looking at free camping
in Colorado. It has some amazing, beautiful places to get out there and
enjoy some beautiful Lakes. Frigid streams, the Aspen's are beautiful up in
the pines, the views are gorgeous - why are we wasting any more time describing it?
Why don't we get into some of these campgrounds and see what Colorado has to
offer. We're gonna start this amazing list off with Madden Peak Road, where
Teo says "this place just felt like home. Stayed ten days and didn't want to leave.
Perfect weather, great Sun for solar, blazing fast Verizon.
Not too many bugs, lots of cows. They visited my site every day. Easy access to
the wonderful town of Mancos and 25 minutes from everything Durango has to
offer. I love it here. Can't wait to come back." Next on our list is County Road 34
where a comment from Where is Becky says "Perfect location for daily visits to
Mesa Verde Cortez and Durango. Found this site on Campendium and was so pleased
with it. It was very easy to find, right off the main highway then make the first
right. The sites are numbered which makes it quite easy. The next free camping site
we have on our list is Sultan Camping Area, where Free Rein Project said "Two
other campers already on site so we took the most out of level site, but we were
very close to the creek and we had our privacy. Quick drive to Silverton which
we didn’t everyday, sometimes twice a day. We also went up the dirt road to hike
Ice Lakes which is one of the best hikes o have done in my life! This place
is truly amazing, I couldn’t believe that it was free!!!" Next on the list is Sultan
Creek. We have a review from Jimmy G that says "It's such a beautiful area it's
hard to go wrong around here I pulled in and immediately found a nice spot with a
fire ring and a nice view. Looks like you can go back pretty far in if your
vehicle can handle rough-road. I was here during the week and
I could see a few other vehicles around, but it still felt like I had the peace
and quiet I wanted." And just across the way from Sultan Creek is Anvil
Camping Area where 33 and Free said "I wanted to keep this place a secret, but I
wanted others to experience the amazing area. We were originally going to stay in
Sultan, but we looked across the river and saw Anvil when we scouted the entire
dead-end strip we got to the end and saw the last spot and we both were like yep
this is the spot. We would stay here again in a heartbeat. When talking about
places to go in Colorado, it's hard to not recommend Crested Butte. It's a
beautiful town looks like it should be right on the front of a postcard and
they tout themselves as being the the wildflower capital of Colorado. So if
you're looking for a beautiful place to camp near there, you can look at the
Slate River, where Nathan says don't come expecting cellphones or warm nights but
if you get fidgety over waterfalls, fresh bear scat and endless mountains covered
and flowers well into July, then this end of the road is more than Boyz II Men, ABC,
BBD and the East Coast Family could ever hope to harmonize with." Nathan is
actually on the Compendium team, he writes all the blogs that these videos
are based off of, he has 300 reviews of campsites on Campendium and that's - that's
pretty, pretty impressive. So if you want to have a good read just click on his
one of his reviews and read through some of the other ones. They're very very
entertaining. The next place we have on our list is Washington Gulch Road. The
road might be a little on the rough side, but Love Life on the Road said "dispersed
Colorado camping at its best, other folks have commented that the Washington Gulch
Road camping is premier and I have to agree
this is classic Colorado." Now moving on if you wanted a camp near Grand Junction
Colorado, there's places like Escalante Canyon Road. There's also a Miracle Rock
or there's 25 Road as options to camp at. But the next one on our list is County
Road 48 where Watson's Wander said "This is a great choice for free camp
near Turquoise Lake. We ended up here after staying five nights at the nearby
Silver Dollar Campground, where you won't find water views or be able to walk to
the lake from your site. You will find peace and quiet and a nice forested
setting with mountain views. Now if you're looking for places to camp near
Rocky Mountain National Park, there's places like Vasquez Ridge along with
West Magnolia Campground. Let's take a look at what Stillwaters Pass has to
offer, where Emma B said "This was our first
time at Stillwater and we had a blast. We camped at two different beautiful
campgrounds and went on a hike to Lost Lake. The campsites were pretty clean and
there are sites for miles and miles off CR4 so you can be as close to or as
far away from the start of the pass as you'd like. Now I hope this quick list
gets you excited about what Colorado has to offer
or at least intrigues you enough to want to look at the full article that Nathan
wrote about Free Camping in Colorado so I'm gonna put a link down in the
description to that article and to all these different camp sites that we
talked about. So if you want to check out any of them just click the link and
it'll take you right to them on the Campendium website for for more information.
So I think that's gonna do it for today, if you liked this video give it a thumbs
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next time.