RV Parks at Vallecito Lake, Colorado

[timandsusan]

Has anyone stayed at Five Branches Camper Park on Vallecito Lake, Coloarado?? If so how did you get to it? Did you drive across the dam or around the lake? Also are there other RV Parks in that area beside the National Forest Campgrounds? By the way, I worked at the location that Five Branches now occupies when it was a summer camp in the 60's. It is a beautiful spot!

[padredw]

We have not stayed at the Five Branches Park, but stayed several times at the little "guest ranch/cabins" just this side of it. We did walk through the campground on our last vist. As I recall one would have to drive right through the "little cabins" (can't remember the name) and down a pretty steep hill, but that did not seem to be a problem for the RVs that were staying there.

We actually stayed (in our Montana) at the "Blue Spruce RV park" which is right up next to the wilderness boundry. We found it very nice -- all hookups and great hospitality. That would be the place we would stay again.

In the 1970s we made several 4 and 5 day backpacking trips through the Wenenuche Wilderness and once walked all the way over the Continental Divide from the Creede side and came out at the Vallicito side. Another time we took the train from Durango and hiked up Needle Creek, through Chicago Basin, over Columbine Pass and down into Vallitico.

This is one of our favorite spots in the entire country.

Oh, by the way edited to say: we drove "around the Lake" because we were staying far up that way. In fact, I don't believe we have ever gone "around the other way".