Off to Heber City, UT

After a “close call” for Jury Duty, I’ve been released on Friday and we’re going to head out tomorrow.  The annual Western Regional Montana Owners Club rally starts next Wednesday in Heber City.  This is the same rally that we attended for the first time last June in Dolores, CO.  We’ve also met a smaller group of Montana Owners in Quartzite in January.

Gunnison KOA Journey

We’re going to visit friends in Montrose, but decide that nearly 5 hours is just a bit too far, so our first night is at the KOA Journey in Gunnison. This campground is more like a city park, lush green lawns, big trees and even a small fishing lake.  We’re parked in site #48 which provides a very long back-in site with full hookups right behind the office.  This site isn’t bad, but if the “Kottage” is occupied, you’ll share your patio area for their parking.  We’d prefer to be further around the circle, site # 26, 28 or 16, 18.

Moochdocking in Montrose

From Gunnison it’s a relatively easy trip over to Montrose, including passing through the US 50 Little Blue Creek Canyon Improvement Project.  In Montrose we enjoyed Colorado Boy Pizza and Beers on Sunday evening.  On Monday evening we joined additional friends for an informal dinner of wonderful salads, beans and hot-dogs!  Thanks M&D for letting us “camp” in your front yard.!

Green River State Park, Green River, Utah

From Montrose we’re headed to Green River State Park.  We’ve stayed at Green River before, and have always noted their mosquito problem apparently due to overwatering of the lush grass.  It’s not as bad in previous years, but the little nuisances are still obnoxious when walking through the grass or just after sunset.  We’re parked in site #26, basically just a wide spot in the main road with hookups on the wrong side.  Not optimal, but it’ll work for a quick overnight.  We’d also note that it appears that the park is adding 10-20 new tent sites and at least 1 new shower house.

After Green River, we’ll be in Mountain Valley RV Resort in Heber City for 7 nights.  More from Heber City…

Ridgway State Park

Good Morning from Southwestern Colorado.

After 1 night in Montrose with good friends, we’re parked in site #115 in the Elk Ridge campground at Ridgway State Park.  We’re a part of a group that will eventually total 15 people camping in sites #108 – #115.  Set high on a ridge overlooking the reservoir, the D and E loop contain about 100 campsites.  Nearer the lake, the Dakota Terraces campground provides about 80 sites in 3 loops.   Lakeside near the marina is a boat ramp (with the required Invasive Species inspection) a small swim beach area and several day-use covered picnic tables.  All of these facilities make up the Dutch Charlie area.  Further south is the Dallas Creek area designed primarily for day-use with fishing areas and picnic tables.  There are also about 80 full hookup campsites at the Pa-co-chu-puk area to the north, below the dam.

All of the Elk Ridge sites offer 20 and 30 amp electric hookups with conveniently located threaded water taps.  Site #115 has many trees, great for privacy, but impossible for awning use.  The roads throughout the campground are asphalt as are each sites parking area – some back-in, some pull-through.  There is also a concrete apron with picnic table and fire ring.  These aprons are placed at various locations, some on the left, some right and some rear.  Not all the locations are ideal – our fire ring is directly outside the RV door and under a low hanging tree.  With 15 campers, we used the large picnic table and fire ring area at site #113.  The trees thinned out a bit toward site #108 where awning can be deployed fully.  These 5 sites are well spread out and not always convenient for toting food or chairs between sites.  A better alternative would have been to select sites around the inside of the loop end (such as #84-#113) or across from each other (#115-#112).

Best sites at Elk Ridge are those along the upper loop #165 –  #184.  Many of these sites offer great views off to the east with good privacy.  On the lower loop the first campsite #80 provides beautiful lake views, but might be a bit short and narrow for some rigs.

We had a great July 4^th weekend at Ridgway and would like to return here again on another long weekend.

Site #84

Site #80

Site #80

Site #184

Site #184

Site #177

Site #168

Site #166

Site #165