Pueblo Lake State Park, CO
April 14th to 23rd
A huge lake behind a dam built to protect the town from flooding of the Arkansas river. There are boat ramps on two sides of the lake, and three campgrounds. The south side of the lake has campsites available year round across the street from the main visitor center. There a some walking trails and a horse trail as well. The north side of the lake has two huge camp areas available during the season only. One campground is for dry camping, no hookups, water taps sprinkled among the sites, a bathhouse and several restrooms. The other campground has back-in and pull-through sites with electric, a covered picnic table, and water taps sprinkled around. There are three main bathhouses with a laundry in each, and several restrooms. Colorado charges a five dollar per vehicle park fee, and $16 camping fee for the hook-up sites. The park fee is daily, so the real cost of camping is $21 per day. Showers are fifty cents for less than five minutes, and it takes at least a minute for the hot water to come down the pipes. We figured out you could run the hot water in the bathroom sinks to get the water down the pipes, so the shower started out hot.
We cruised through the dry camp area by mistake, and scrounged some good wood for campfires. The park ranger at registration let us choose a site at the right campground and then come back and pay. There were only three or four other campers, and we chose a site next to the bath house and across the water tap. The laundry in the bath house had a big sink, so I ended up coloring my hair and rinsing it there, and we also washed some dishes there as well.
The hiking "trails" are actually paved bike paths that go all over the park and actually down to town. We saw several serious bike types on them, and Howard jogged on them a couple of times. Our water tap didn’t work, and although we reported it to the park ranger, it was never fixed the entire time we were there.
Very severe winds blew a couple of times, rocking the trailer and increasing the wind chill factor. The weather could change dramatically in a few hours, although it did not rain at all.
We spent ten days at this park, going to Jan & David’s party, and then hosting them for a couple nights of camping.
2 Comments:
Does it get any better than two people from Hawaii and two people from Australia meeting in the Pueblo Lake State Park for a couple of nights of luxury camping in a fancy RV? I don't think so!! There was only one thing lacking from the facilities--we were forced to drink a bottle of Moet champagne from paper cups. But we coped and we will be more prepared when we meet up again in 2005.
Ah yes! As Judy might say. I had a feeling details were missing. I've had a very strong suspicion that there might have been a wee bit of drinking going on :) Somewhere. Sometime. Cheers!
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