Camping At Pitkin

The NICE thing about being retired is that we don't have to camp on the holiday weekends!  I did have to go into town on the Saturday of Labor Day Weekend - I went super early and STILL got caught up in the traffic!  And on Monday, the traffic was backed up through Woodland Park, Divide and as far as we could see into Florissant!!!  Sure glad I wasn't in that mess!!

We left to go camping on Tuesday after Labor Day - and were still surprised to see SO many people camping!  The campground at Pitkin has 23 spaces and after going ALL the way around, we found the biggest and nicest one was empty - hooray!!!  Sure made our tripled up caravan easy to park and we didn't even have to unhook!

There's a beautiful stream that runs along the road and we cross the bridge over it to get to the campground!  It was my "go to spot" when I walked in the mornings!

It was chilly when we headed out to ATV - I sure do love the heater in the new Razor!!!  We ended up doing 3 passes that day - Hancock Pass, Tincup Pass, and Cumberland Pass!  And also decided that we MUST be old as 2 of the passes were tough - lots and lots of rocks and pretty rough going!  So we're adding 2 more passes to our "NO MORE" list!!  Ha Ha!!

The scenery was gorgeous and it was a beautiful day!

I'm always amazed at the number of dead trees we see along the trails from the pine beetle kill!  Someday I'm sure all of these trees will fall to the ground - just hope I'm not in the way when it happens!

Here's Glenn cooking up a delicious meal on the grill - note the weight loss - he's lost over 20# this summer!

I can never take too many pictures of the mountains!

In the evenings we would take the razor into the General Store to check our phones, along with everybody else camping!!  It's the only place for miles around that you can get any service!!

A great 3 nites camping and ATVing - and soon it will be aspen time !!