Glendo,Wyoming and Cañon City, Colorado - June 2020
Glendo State Park in Wyoming surrounds a large reservoir on the North Platte River, and has over 500 campsites in various campgrounds on its 22,000 acres. We stayed in the Sandy Beach campground, in the last site available with electricity ... a must for running the AC in hot (mid 90's) weather. This part of the park is accessed by a 12-mile drive around the reservoir on a fairly windy 2-lane road, so once we got there for the 2 nights we were staying, we stayed put. Plus, Glendo is pretty remote and certainly not a restaurant/shopping hub.
The big attraction was the beach. Dorian tried the water and found it refreshing - a bit on the cold side. Pippi was not interested in the water, but loved frolicking in the sand.
We crossed into Colorado on June 17. I had forgotten how much I love beautiful Colorado - well, once we got through the Denver traffic (horrendous, even at non-rush hour). We stayed 4 nights in Cañon City - 2 at a nice KOA, and 2 at even nicer at Cañon City's no-frills (no electricity/water/etc.) first-come first-serve campground 1,000 feet above the town, nearby the Royal Gorge Park. Per my (Ramona's) preference, we eschewed the very nice but tourist-packed Royal Gorge Park with its suspension bridge that spans the far-below Arkansas River, and instead took an awesome hike from our campground along the Canyon Rim Trail. In the below pictures notice the suspension bridge and far below train tracks running beside the river. We'd love to return to take this train ride, cross the bridge, ride the gondola, etc. - in a less crowded time.
Another fun activity for the bold driver (Dorian) is Skyline Drive, a one-way path high above Cañon City which offers great views if you can take your eyes from the often hog-backed road with *minimal* clearance on either side. Or so it seemed to me. In the poor quality photo I took from the passenger seat, note the road continuing up and down along the crest of the mountain.... ugh.
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