Badger Flats to the San Luis Valley, CO | Visiting Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument | Camping in the San Luis Valley | October 2024 We began this morning with packing up from our campsite in Badger Flats area, and continuing our road trip. We drove East briefly on US-24 to enter Teller county, which…
Beaver Creek to Badger Flats, CO | Wilkerson Pass in the Fall | Camping and Hiking in Badger Flats | October 2024 Today began with leaving our campsite in Beaver Creek and going for a short hike before returning to the town of Fairplay. We stopped at a local grocery store to stock up on…
Driving from Deer Creek to Beaver Creek, CO | Hiking the Colorado Trail at Kenosha Pass | Camping & Hiking at Beaver Creek | October 2024 After two nights at Deer Creek Campground, we drove back to US-285 and began driving West. Today’s goal was to find a free and quiet spot to camp for…
Hiking in Golden Gate Canyon State Park | Hiking Dinosaur Ridge in Lakewood | Last Day in Denver | September 2024 On our last full day in the Denver area and with my parents, we decided to drive a ways out of the city to go for a hike that would be among the golden…
Hiking Green Mountain | A Weekend in Denver | September 2024 This trip is the first time that Curtis and I have spent any time in Denver together. We’ve driven through a couple times, and we’ve both been there in the past with our families (Curtis was actually born here!). But we never had any…
Hiking at Mount Falcon Park | Denver, Colorado | September 2024 On our first afternoon/evening in Denver, we rested during the hottest part of the day, then went out for dinner and a sunset hike with Charlotte. By the time we returned to the hotel, my parents had arrived after driving all day from Iowa,…