We are planning our vacation for next year. Since the kids are grown now we have been camping with the motorcycles. We pull our gooseneck horse trailer with living quarters and put the MC's in the back. We are looking for a quiet motorcycle friendly campground in the area of Durango / Pagosa Springs Colorado. It must have nice clean showers and restrooms as our trailer does not have bathroom facilities. Would like Water / Electric. If anyone knows of a campground that would work for us please respond. We don't have loud MC's I ride a Goldwing and wife rides a Suzuki Volusia.
Thanks in advance.
Randy
We stayed a United, it is a nice campground. Only drawback is the Silverton Train does run through the park during the day several times. It makes a good base camp location. We stayed in a toy hauler. There were a number of tents with motorcycles. Here is the link
I generally don't stay in commercial campgrounds but we did stay in the KOA just east of Durango on Hwy 160. The office people were very accommodating and the campground was quite adequate.
Hide Pounder wrote: We are planning our vacation for next year. Since the kids are grown now we have been camping with the motorcycles. We pull our gooseneck horse trailer with living quarters and put the MC's in the back. We are looking for a quiet motorcycle friendly campground in the area of Durango / Pagosa Springs Colorado. It must have nice clean showers and restrooms as our trailer does not have bathroom facilities. Would like Water / Electric. If anyone knows of a campground that would work for us please respond. We don't have loud MC's I ride a Goldwing and wife rides a Suzuki Volusia.
Thanks in advance.
Randy
Hey! I thought that if you mention you own a motorcycle, you have to post a picture of it!
I can't wait until I can get my 3rd Goldwing!
It doesn't matter to me if you don't own a Mac.
It should matter to YOU that you're still tethered to Microsoft.
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We stayed 2nts at the UNITED CG this past Sept, quite specifically to take the Durango/Silverton RR.
The FREE Trolley makes a regular stop by the CG every 20min. and runs into town, so we didn't need to unload the bike. I did take note of their policy which ~Allows Motorcycles JUST doesn't want them "cruising around the park" {understandable and no one would want to waste the time anyway!! So no problem.}
We have a truck camper and tow a small utility trailer for the Harley. We came in without reservations on a Wed and got an elect/water BACK-IN site for around $34nt NO DISCOUNTS offered. {The pull-thrus go faster although more spendy}. The site wasn't too much of a problem for us, although the back-in area we were in was rather tight overall. There were a couple of big fivers that were in earlier and were better situated. You'd probably still need to unload the bikes BEFORE you backed-in though ... and then pull forward to reload!!}
While UNITED certainly isn't anything to rave about -- it suited our basic needs & purpose. The FREE Trolley is a plus, you can spend as much time in Durango as you want, don't have to worry about stowing your gear or finding parking {which I believe is PAY meters or lots everywhere}, and packing any purchases back - AND the town is small enough to walk around.
It's fairly quiet, except as others mentioned for the train. The earliest goes thru about 8am and blows the whistle a few times. The next around 9am and sometimes a third a bit later. Not like trains running all night long ... We both took showers & used the restrooms by the office which were clean enough {however if IIRC the shower curtains were a bit "scimpy"!! like maybe they'd been cut in half?! to make curtains for both the shower and the dressing areas }
It's also just off the highway that runs north to Silverton, which is a MUST visit and would make a great bike run. {Also north from Silverton to Telluride and Ouray We didn't have enough time to go touring, as we were headed to Mesa Verde.} But we would definitely go back to that area. HOWEVER we would probably look into staying at some of the USFS CGS the next time {doubt any would have hook-ups though}.
While in the area, perhaps this information will prove helpful, since I can not help with camping in Durango Area:
The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad was originally constructed in 1880 as part of the Rio Grande's San Juan Extension, which served the silver mining district of the San Juan mountains in southwestern Colorado. Like all of the Rio Grande at the time, it was built to a gauge of 3 feet between the rails, instead of the more common 4 feet, 8-1/2 inches that became standard in the United States. The inability to interchange cars with other railroads led the Rio Grande to begin converting its tracks to standard gauge in 1890. Railroad
We have spent more time at Heron Lake State Park near Chama, NM going back several years in the summers. We did have a canoe and enjoyed canoeing on it. Chama is a neat place with a very nice steam train ride up into Colorado. The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad. Chama would be about 95 miles from Taos. It is a very neat drive between Taos & Chama. State Park also Heron Chama Area
Tierra Wools of Los Ojos near the turn off to Heron Lake. WoolArtisans Tierra Amarilla
Take SR 17 out of Chama towards Antonito, CO at about 4.6 miles from the state line take a forest road on the left. There should be a forest service campground and perhaps disperse camping as well if my memory is correct. There is a small lake in there as well. Very pretty country, much higher area than Heron Lake. This would be about 12 or 13 miles from the Depot in Chama. This will be in the Cumbres Pass area 10,022'. It will be cooler at night as well as in the day.
Abiquiu Lake -US Army Corps of Engineers campground, we have driven by but not stopped, they say it has excellent facilities surrounded by red sandstone cliffs and mesas of "O´Keefe Country." LakeAbiquiu
Echo Amphitheater - Natural rock formation is nearby with a campground as well. Close to Ghost Ranch & the Ghost Ranch Piedra Lumbre Education and Visitor Center, located on U.S. Highway 84 just one mile north of the main Ghost Ranch entrance, has exhibits and a gift shop. A very nice museum in "O´Keefe Country." Ghost Ranch also has camping. Ghost Ranch Echo
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If you don't have major plans to stay in Durango, try looking at places outside of the larger cities. When I travel on the Harley, I go around the larger cities and stay at the smaller cities. Small town America is a much better place to visit.
This years trip was across the USA. Trip of a Lifetime
Next year will be a base camp with the camper to Grand Canyon, Zion area.
I (2-10-05) bought a 2002 F350 CC SWD PSD and a new 2003 Citation 10'8. Rancho 9000X, Superhitch, Wave 3 & Toyo M55's or Toyo 19.5's. I have been a tent camper all my life. I wanted more comfort while camping and doing my Crater Lake Ski Patrol duties.
I was looking today and found Navajo State Park thats between Pagosa Springs and Durango looks like a nice place. Anyone ever stayed there? May start and new thread.
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