The Best in Tent Camping: Colorado: A Guide for Car Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos (Best Tent Camping) - Softcover

Molloy, Johnny

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9780897325646: The Best in Tent Camping: Colorado: A Guide for Car Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos (Best Tent Camping)

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ISBN 10: 0897325648 ISBN 13: 9780897325646

Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press, 2004

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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 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. Also included are suggestions for nearby outdoor recreation and sightseeing, pinpointing attractions that often go unnoticed.

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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.

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