MOON COLORADO CAMPING
The Complete Guide to Tent and RV Camping

Grab your sleeping bag, pack the car, and head out to discover the best camping spots in Colorado. Whether you’re RV camping, hiking into the backcountry, or just looking for a quick getaway, you’ll find the perfect campsite among the choices selected by outdoors expert Sarah Ryan.

Features include:
 • Camping options from secluded Rockies hike-ins to convenient roadside stopovers with advice
   on nearby recreation
 • Best campground lists, including Best Campgrounds near Fourteeners and Best Campgrounds for    Stunning Views
 • Tips on camping equipment, food and cooking gear, clothing, hiking accessories, first aid, and insect    protection
 • Easy-to-follow maps with driving directions to each campground

Moon Colorado Camping
3rd Edition
Sarah Ryan
ISBN 1-56691-546-5
$18.95
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Sarah Ryan is a Rocky Mountain boomerang. From childhood vacations to adult migrations, she hasn’t been able to resist the pull of the Rockies. After editing Blue Ridge Outdoors magazine in Virginia, and completing a Masters of Fine Arts in Writing at the Art Institute of Chicago, she returned to Colorado to live full-time. In the West, Sarah has learned how to hike, camp, climb, telemark, fish, and fly single-engine Cessnas. Fascinated by the history, ecology, and people of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, she’s working on a novel about the cultural crossroads of the region.

Moon Colorado Camping was a navigational challenge. Sarah’s Colorado Atlas & Gazetteer, torn, creased, coffee-stained, and covered in notes, can attest to the more than 11,000 miles she logged on Colorado’s highways and backroads, searching out campgrounds and chatting with camp hosts and rangers. They always warned her not to take the shortcut, but she took it anyway—bumping and shuffling over passes that weren’t meant for passenger cars.

In Colorado, the shortcuts always take longer, but the views are worth the extra time. Highlights included venturing through a summer blizzard in Steamboat Springs, fishing in Durango, wandering through the ruins of Mesa Verde, surprising a herd of bighorn on the Alamosa River, and celebrating her one-year wedding anniversary in Rocky Mountain National Park.

When Sarah’s not camping, she lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, and teaches English and Humanities at Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne, Wyoming.