Taylor Park Fun

Pack up the camper and load up the Razor - it's time to head to Taylor Park, between Buena Vista and Gunnison!!  FINALLY Cottonwood Pass is open!!  I think it's been closed for 3 years due to paving one side of it!  It did open for a while last summer but you couldn't tow anything over it at that time!  So we were excited to try out the new highway this last week!

And we weren't disappointed - the pass is wonderful being all paved!  Yes, there are still some very sharp turns but that's to be expected!  There are wonderful pull offs and marked parking spaces for a couple of places even!  Sure cuts off a lot of time instead of going all the way around to Gunnison!

Taylor Park sits right at the end of Cottonwood Pass!  We knew it would be extra busy as everybody seems to be camping this year, even in the middle of the week!!  A few years ago we had stayed quite a ways in on the road (the dustiest road you've ever been on!!) on Italian Creek!  The spot was next to the stream and you could hear the rushing water so it was a great spot to camp!  We found a pull off spot and unloaded the razor so we could take it down and check it out and sure enough, it was empty!

Since our county has a fire ban, we were excited to be able to have a fire over there!  Camping is JUST not camping unless you have a campfire!!

We saw lots of beautiful country the next 2 1/2 days on the razor!!

There is NO cell phone service anywhere you camp!  But they do have it over at the general store AND last year when we drove to the top of a mountain, we got enough service to check our messages!  This is the spot where we stopped to check our phones!

We had an awesome view from our camping spot!

Brats and hot dogs always taste great on the fire!

We went through too many streams to count!!  One was pretty deep and got the floorboards all wet!

One day we headed up to the town of Tincup!  It's a nice drive up and we were disappointed to see the restaurant was all shut down!  We headed on up to Mirror Lake which is gorgeous and took a few pictures!

Last year when we were on Cement Creek Trail, we saw a cow moose!  I was hoping to see another one and on the way back, sure enough Glenn spotted a bull moose!!  It was in the distance but what a thrill to see it!

We even attempted a hike this year!!  But I think we picked the wrong trail because it was straight up!  Unfortunately we didn't last too long on it - need to pick one that's a little flatter next time!

All in all a wonderful camping trip with great trails to ride on!!