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…
Denver to Deer Creek | Hiking in Pike National Forest | Camping at Deer Creek Campground | October 2024 Once our time in Denver was up, we did one last load of laundry and then moved back into the van. Jess’ parents had left to head back to Iowa early in the morning, but we…
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…