Category Archives: Camping

Seedhouse Campground / Group Campground. Easy to get to yet far enough from Denver, and not too many idiots, besides yours truly. With pandemics and fire bans making for an interesting summer of 2020, you better call some ranger stations to see what wilderness and counties are allowing campfires (since camping without a fire sucks).Continue reading “Campground – Seedhouse”

Fire bans, COVID 19, and unemployment rates in Denver at record levels? You’re going to have to drive further baby! Once upon a time I would hit the road to a green area on the frayed Colorado Gazetteer and with fingers crossed, find a nice little dispersed campsite near a babbling brook full of eagerContinue reading “Dispersed Camping – Flat Tops – Yampa, CO”

Book this place with a huge group. Do it now! The long drive is so worth it. Total privacy and totally kick ass. We took a very large group of coworkers up here for a long weekend in July last year. There were probably forty of us, and we could have fit a lot more,Continue reading “Campground – Chapman Group”

Oh Colorado. Where else can you drive down a dusty forest road among fourteen thousand foot peaks and pristine mountain streams just to camp next to hipsters, hunters, hikers, millennials, rednecks, Midwesterners, Texans, and other assorted douche bags? I just had an epiphany. What if we rounded up all the politicians, threw them into aContinue reading “Dispersed Camping – Half Moon Creek, CO”

If you’ve never driven through the Arkansas River valley in Colorado, you are a complete jackass and living like a hermit. The highest mountains in the US Rocky Mountains tower high above the river and the cool little towns that dot the valley are all worth spending a few days in. This mountain range makesContinue reading “Dispersed Camping – Twin Lakes, CO”

This area is scenic, but not the highest ranking on our list. That said, there are several dispersed camping spots in the area, excellent fishing, and an abundance of wildlife. The first time we camped here was many years ago. The one thing that made this trip noticeably different from the rest though was thatContinue reading “Dispersed Camping – Upper Williams Fork, CO”

Most of the time, scanning Google Earth is relaxing and fun but not very telling of an actual place on the real earth.  Whether it be the undulating Rocky Mountains or even your own neighborhood there is no way to get the feel of a space until you actually set foot on its soil.  ThisContinue reading “Dispersed Camping – Geneva Creek, CO”

This place had been on my list for at least a couple of years.  I’d been staring at Google Earth dreaming about what this wilderness flanking Steamboat valley and Rocky Mountain National Park would hold.  We knew it would be a long drive so we decided to put in a much longer weekend so weContinue reading “Dispersed Camping – East Fork Arapahoe Creek Near Walden, CO”

Spring had come!  Our luck would have it that over the winter we had made fast friends with several families in our new neighborhood and were invited to go on a huge group camping trip with lots of people, kids, and mutts.  As long as they didn’t find the bodies buried in our back yard,Continue reading “Campground – Meadows Group”

Last year was the second year in a row we made the trip up the mountain for the Leadville Heavy Half marathon, and despite buying trail running shoes I didn’t attempt the brutality that is this race.  Running up a mountain with my newly acquired plantar fasciitis feeling like nails being driven into my heelContinue reading “Dispersed Camping – Dunn Ditch Leadville, CO”

This is us beginning to give away all of the free dispersed campsites. Hesitant as I am, it is no secret that camping in Colorado and elsewhere in the Rockies can be achieved for free if you don’t mind leaving early, getting lost, pooping in the woods, and amazing rewards. We’ll start with Lost CreekContinue reading “Dispersed Camping – Lost Creek Wilderness”