Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado offers a number of different camping options to families looking to camp in a tent or in a RV. There are two primary access points into the park. From the East the entrance is through Estes Park CO and from the West the entrance is through Granby CO and Grand Lake CO. The following video is a recording from a webinar presented by the founder of Campgroundviews.com and provides you with the information you need to plan your camping trip to Rocky Mountain National Park.
The following is the transcribed text from the video:
Campgroundviews.com today I am going to tell you a little bit about Rocky Mountain
National Park to give you some ideas on how to plan your trip to that destination first
thing you want do is start at a campgroundviews.com search for Rocky Mountain
National Park and pull up the results
Rocky Mountain is located in Colorado
West of Fort Collins and northwest of
Denver it’s a greatest destination to go camping both in a tent or in RV with majestic mountain
peaks that stretch up in to the sky beautiful valleys and wildlife all around the
primary things to know when going to Rocky Mountain National Park is from the east
accessing the park from Denver, Fort
Collins area that’s the most accessible
side of the park there’s a lot more
accommodations shopping food and fuel in
that area
Estes Park is the entrance way to the
National Park from this way and there are
several routes into Estes Park depending
on location and route you’re coming from
Estes Park itself has a number of private
parks and campgrounds inside and around the
location. A lot of people end up spending
their vacations here in Estes Park
because there’s so much to see and do
it’s a nice downtown and there are some
great as we’ve mentioned RV parks and
campgrounds There is also a number front
country campgrounds that are National
Park campgrounds located just outside of
Estes Park including Glacier Basin which is a very pretty campground for visiting with
your RV. Moraine Park Campground again another RV accessible one and Aspen Glen
also RV accessible Rocky Mountain
National Park is a very popular
destination and these campgrounds often fill up from Spring all the way through to
fall so make reservations in advance
before going there you’re less likely to
be able to walk in and find a campsite in the National Park.Private RV
Park will general have sites so that’s
always a fall back and if all else fails
you could drop south into the forest and
find and find some forest camping too.
This is what Glacier Basin looks like in this photo kinda shows you the view of it actually doesn’t kind
of this is the view from the campground
and you can see the campsites have
majestic views. The forest the National
Park actually clear cut trees through here in
an effort to avoid damage from the bark
beetle. It took away the shade
created some majestic views form the sites. We do have a video on this campground so you can
see what it looks like. There are these
sites out of the trees are very nice to stay in
the sites in the trees are a little bit
tighter for big rigs. Moraine Park is a
prettier campground notably for tents
and smaller RVs. As you see from this photo
that this is a good sized site and a nice
twenty foot trailer pulls right in there is plenty
of room to move around that’s Moraine Park again another one of the popular campgrounds it’s larger
a large loop roads there’s more
opportunity find sites and space. Aspen
Glen again another RV Park another
campground in the National Park and offers
good access for RVs and tents. So in
planning your trip to Rocky Mountain
National Park as mentioned most people
enter from the Denver direction and the
main highway to the park is US 34. It’s
a long climb up the road all the way up
to the upper peak here at Trail Ridge
there is a dirt road that’s open
seasonally
up there it is old Fall River Road you
can actually drive. It’s one way I
believe it’s downhill don’t quote me on
that that’s a neat little drive to get
a chance to do it. On the back side of the
west side of Rocky Mountain National
Park
there is Timber Creek Campground Timber Creek is a great fallback if you’re here
in the summer time because it rarely
ever completely fills and it offers good
access to some nice tent and RV sites
in an open setting again like the other
campgrounds this one has been clearcut
due to the bark beetle and in an effort
to avoid falling trees and such so
there’s plenty of space here lots of room
In our case we camped there once with our truckand backed right in and so it’s a
nice place to stay and often not as
crowded as the other side of the park. If you
enter from the west side of Rocky
Mountain National Park you’ll come to
Granby
Grand Lake. In Grand Lake there are a number of campgrounds both public and private that
are very convenient to the National Park
in fact Grand Lake is probably a little
bit closer to the National Park has less
traffic from the sites you are going to be able
to move a bit quicker up the road and get to the destinations. Grand Lake also has Lake
Granby and on the south shore there’s a
road this is marked as six here this
road has a number of forest service campgrounds along it. The Sunset Point campground is a great
little spot to stop because it has nice RV
sites and pretty views of water and
drive down this road it’s a graded
gravel road nothing too technical and
there’s a number of campgrounds back here in fact there is a little bit more than what’s
popping up right now it would probably pop up in page two of my results
but this Arapahoe Bay has some very pretty campgrounds that are located back there and
we have video and pictures of those also
the advantage to these is that they’re gonna be less crowded and allow you to find a place to
stay
Sunset Point also this Green Ridge and Cut-Throat Bay in Stillwater Campground this
one is right off the highway very easy
to get to and offers camping up on the
side of a hill overlooking a lake so
it’s pretty location to see from and its got
hook ups here too so this is a great
campground it tends to be a little bit
more busy obviously because it has the hookups and such but it could be a fallback if you need a place to stay.
Rocky Mountain itself is accessible off US 34 a lot of folks will hike into
the backcountry campgrounds and camp
along the trails obviously the major
mountain peaks are always a great
destination but for the family that’s
essentially it for Rocky Mountain National
Park enter from the west or the east
There’s campgrounds both public and private leading into and then the national park
campgrounds inside of it. If you want to
learn more go to CampgroundViews.com search
Granby, Estes Park, Rocky Mountain
National Park and discover your
campground or RV Park to spend your
vacation at Rocky Mountain National Park
hope this is helpful leave questions in the comment section
feel free to subscribe to us too. Talk to you soon this is Mark Koep from CampgroundViews.com
Thank you