The Best in Tent Camping: Colorado
- Book Review,
by Johnny Molloy
Review
"Molloy's pleasant, relaxed style lends a great deal of readability to an otherwise utilitarian text, so that the reader is encouraged to explore all of what Colorado has to offer before embarking."
--ForeWord magazine
"Molloy's latest is a pure delight. . . . he includes a wealth of information on the nearby attractions campers will want to see. . . .Considering the importance of Colorado as a vacation destination, as well as the lack of materials on true outdoor camping, Molloy's book belongs on the shelf of most public libraries."
--The Library Journal
"Discover 50 of the safest and most scenic campgrounds in the state."
Review
"Molloy's pleasant, relaxed style lends a great deal of readability to an otherwise utilitarian text, so that the reader is encouraged to explore all of what Colorado has to offer before embarking."
--ForeWord magazine
"Molloy's latest is a pure delight. . . . he includes a wealth of information on the nearby attractions campers will want to see. . . .Considering the importance of Colorado as a vacation destination, as well as the lack of materials on true outdoor camping, Molloy's book belongs on the shelf of most public libraries."
--The Library Journal
"Discover 50 of the safest and most scenic campgrounds in the state."
Review
"Molloy's pleasant, relaxed style lends a great deal of readability to an otherwise utilitarian text, so that the reader is encouraged to explore all of what Colorado has to offer before embarking."
--ForeWord magazine
"Molloy's latest is a pure delight. . . . he includes a wealth of information on the nearby attractions campers will want to see. . . .Considering the importance of Colorado as a vacation destination, as well as the lack of materials on true outdoor camping, Molloy's book belongs on the shelf of most public libraries."
--The Library Journal
"Discover 50 of the safest and most scenic campgrounds in the state."
Book Description
Offering essential details on facilities, reservations, fees, and more as well as accurate, easy-to-read maps, The Best in Tent Camping: Colorado will lead you to the 50 best campgrounds in the state.
From the Back Cover
If you subscribe to the opinion that televisions, Japanese lanterns, and electric guitars are not essential camping equipment, then The Best in Tent Camping: Colorado should be your constant companion.
Colorado is known for the Rockies, cobalt skies, deep forests, and snow-fed mountain streams, but there are other attractions as well: Mesa Verde, the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, the Great Sand Dunes near the Sangre de Cristo Range, the Uncompahgre Plateau, and more.
The Best in Tent Camping: Colorado is a guidebook for tent campers who like scenic and serene campsites. It's the perfect resource if you blanch at the thought of pitching your tent on a concrete slab and waking up to find your tent surrounded by a convoy of RVs.
The Best in Tent Camping: Colorado will guide you to the quietest, most beautiful, most secure, and best managed campgrounds in the Centennial State. Painstakingly selected from hundreds of camping options, each profiled campground is rated for beauty, noise, privacy, security, spaciousness, and cleanliness.
Each campground profile gives unbiased and thorough evaluations, taking the guesswork out of finding the perfect site. Essential details on facilities, reservations, fees, and restrictions, as well as an accurate, easy-to-read campground map make planning your trip a snap. Also included are suggestions for nearby outdoor recreation and sightseeing, pinpointing attractions that often go unnoticed.
About the Author
Johnny Molloy is an outdoor writer based in Johnson City, Tennessee. He has averaged over 100 nights in the wild per year since the early 1980's, backpacking and canoe camping throughout the country. He has written numerous hiking and tent camping guides for the southeastern states, Wisconsin and Colorado.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Snowy, granite domes of the Sangre De Cristo Mountains plunge down to a forest of spruce and fir. This in turn gives way to an open meadow and Bear Lake, where you can enjoy tent camping, in the most southeasterly slice of national forest land in Colorado. Fishing comes naturally with all the water around, both still and moving. You can move along many trails in the vicinity and make a side trip to the Spanish Peaks, a National Natural Landmark.
The campground is well placed next to the dense forest and mountain meadow above Bear Lake. Along the campground's gravel loop, several wooded campsites are situated to your right with obscured views of Bear Lake. More open sites with occasional stray aspen are in the center of the loop as the road swings around into the grassy meadow. What these campsites lack in privacy they make up in views of Steep Mountain above, the nearby meadow, and a cathedral of peaks beyond. A few campsites on the outside of the loop face into the clearing, which has a stream flowing through it.
The Indian Creek trailhead starts just beyond campsite #9. The loop road begins to climb into the forest again. Another creek rushes from the high country through the campground to Bear Lake. The next few campsites are in the spruce to your right, offering the most in campsite privacy.
This is one of the highest campgrounds around, so bring that extra blanket and expect to find temperatures around, or possibly below, freezing through out the summer. Be prepared for windy, cool conditions any time at Bear Lake. Stake your tent down extra taut as well, because the gusts of wind from the peaks above can blow mighty strong. Cover yourself from the penetrating rays of the sun. Experience taught me these lessons the hard way. On my visit I failed to bring enough clothes for the chill, my face got sunburned, my tent was blown over, and I froze my tail off that night. And I still like this place.
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