If you are more of visual person than a reader, a video of this trip with more pictures and less detail is available on youtube.
After snow earlier this week, we left Fort Collins in 70 degree weather and it was soon in the 90’s as we reached Southeast Colorado. Most of Southeast Colorado, is pretty desolate. The drought has not helped this area at all, everything dried out. Most of the towns here looked deserted, except for Limon. Our intention was to stop for the night at a commercial campground in Dumas, Texas. The oil boom was evident – the campground was completely full. So we kept on to find a campground at Lake Meredith Recreation area. The recreation area had over 100 camp sites, but the problem was we couldn’t tell from the signage where they were. After going down one road only to find a boat ramp and picnic area. We tried for another, but the navigator function on Mary’s phone wanted to lead us to a spot with no signs for the rec area. So we turned back to the headquarters area and sure enough about 3 miles further on was a campground and we were the only camper. We had crossed this huge dam., but there was almost no water behind the dam. It was a beautiful campsite with a great sunset view of the dam and lake.
Lake Meredith |
After snow earlier this week, we left Fort Collins in 70 degree weather and it was soon in the 90’s as we reached Southeast Colorado. Most of Southeast Colorado, is pretty desolate. The drought has not helped this area at all, everything dried out. Most of the towns here looked deserted, except for Limon. Our intention was to stop for the night at a commercial campground in Dumas, Texas. The oil boom was evident – the campground was completely full. So we kept on to find a campground at Lake Meredith Recreation area. The recreation area had over 100 camp sites, but the problem was we couldn’t tell from the signage where they were. After going down one road only to find a boat ramp and picnic area. We tried for another, but the navigator function on Mary’s phone wanted to lead us to a spot with no signs for the rec area. So we turned back to the headquarters area and sure enough about 3 miles further on was a campground and we were the only camper. We had crossed this huge dam., but there was almost no water behind the dam. It was a beautiful campsite with a great sunset view of the dam and lake.
Alibates Flint |
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