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Many thanks for your clips. I’m taking my dad up mid month when most campgrounds I’m familiar with are closed. I pull a trailer and appreciate your leg work helping me visualize where I can fit. Bad things happen with trailers in unfamiliar territory.
@@CampgroundRecon I plan on having fun with my Dad on this trip and he introduced me to camping way back in the 60’s but back then was tents but I’ve been over lots of NM and CO and graduated up to a RV 30 years ago. Platoro CO, Lake Fork is my favorite but all that is closed after Labor Day and the reservation system sucks on Summer trips. I’ll take Dad to Palisades and if that’s full, another one that I used your RU-vid on. Nothing is worse than getting a 5th wheel down an unknown road and I’ve had mine in several. With a trailer, you have to halfway know the layout and you solve that. I know that you and your wife spend lots of time on these RU-vid’s. Your clips are helping me spend time with my elderly Dad in a few weeks. Thanks for your posts. If you don’t make a fortune off RU-vid, just know that you are helping a 63 year old Son give his 86 year old Dad a nice camping trip. I’ve outlived one wife and Dad has outlived 2 but my Moms last camping trip was Platoro. She didn’t make the next one. Thanks much for posting these. 🙏
Do you think a regular minivan would be fine on the dirt roads to the dispersed camping? I recollect driving out there a few years back in a compact car and having issues. Then again it's probably subjective because I've seen civics parked at remote 4x4 trailheads where they have no business being. Anyway, thanks for this vid.
Just came from here a week ago! :-) Creation in all varieties survive up in this area. Truly an area touched by nature in a way that brings inner contentment to the mind and body.
I was up there yesterday and we unwittingly parked right next to a horse skeleton. It was right next to a makeshift corral. It was definitely a horse because the hooves were still intact. What kind of person just leaves a dead horse right there in a campsite? It looked as if a bear or two consumed the remains. It was right where the 10 min. mark in this video.
Thank you for this very informative video. We're planning a family vacation to Lake San Cristobal next Spring and wanted to camp alongside the lake. What time of year were you there?
Very nice, adding the drone surveys to your reconnaissance! And I like this campground, not too far from del Norte which I like to visit on occasion. Rugged roads and small parking areas, just the way I like it! The RV with the make shift 6 ft high tongue jack, trying to get level on these USFS camping spots was... well, interesting.
lol! It was crazier seeing it again during the editing process. Driving by, I think I said it was a good RV spot since it had a trailer! Site right before it was level and a couple after it were too.
Forest service website says 35 to 40 feet for almost all of the campsites here. I don’t think that is accurate for half of them. I’d say don’t go in the first loop with anything over 25 feet.
Wow great video ! I've only been there once, along time ago. I spend so so much time wandering around the northern part of the state I forget how different it is there.
beautiful spot, i am from Pueblo and never knew these falls existed! thank you! Is there a nice wooded area in the hills/mountains around there that you would recommend for camping?
We revisted the falls this last weekend and will have drone footage coming over the next couple of months. Bristol Head Campground and North Clear Creek Campground are a couple of my favorites in the area. Lots of dispersed camping too. We have videos of both from 6 years ago. Recorded them again over the weekend with newer cameras.
Thanks for the review and the great views. May have to give it a try late September or early October when I'm out for some leaf peeping. Really enjoyed the drone scenery!! Question: at these NFS campgrounds that are posted as open year 'round, do the pit toilets remain open and usable? The USFS website states that water and trash service are not avaiable but I could find no mention of pit toilet accessibility?
I've seen it both ways. Probably 50/50 on whether the outhouse is locked or not in the middle of winter. If the snow isn't covering the road, likely they will be unlocked.
@@CampgroundRecon Thanks!!! Trust me, if the weather turns to snow, lottsa snow, in late September through mid-October, I'm gonna be making tracks to somewhere with less snow to deal with. Thanks again for the information.
We picked that up on a black Friday special. Used it in most of our Michigan and Nebraska campground videos earlier this year. You are going to love some of the Colorado drone footage we have coming!!
Road wasn't too bad until the last quarter mile. I'd probably go where the trailer is at a dispersed site seen in the drone footage at the beginning. A little over a half mile from the campground
Camped there with my daughter a few times from 2004 to 2007. Awesome campground. Big campsites. Lovely beach. Trails galore. Two of the four loops have flush toilets (but no showers, unfortunately). The store at the corner of the main road where it meets the road to the campground has showers to use for a fee-- at least it did back in '07.
