Colorado Campgrounds: The 100 Best and All the Rest
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List Price: $24.95
Our Price: $15.71
Your Save: $ 9.24 ( 37% )
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 647.942788
EAN: 9781565796188
ISBN: 1565796187
Label: Westcliffe Publishers
Manufacturer: Westcliffe Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 302
Publication Date: 2008-04-15
Publisher: Westcliffe Publishers
Studio: Westcliffe Publishers
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Best Camping Guide
Comment: We have used several other camping guides to Colorado and this one is the best. Information is up to date and accurate.
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Summary: The American Express card of Colorado Campground books
Comment: I've used this book so much over the past 2 years I may need to replace it soon. While the rating system took me a little while to figure out (the numbers do NOT represent the ranking, just the location on the map), the book is very user-friendly. In addition to giving accurate directions to each campground, it directs you to the correct page and area in both the Colorado Atlas & Gazetteer and Colorado Recreational Road Atlas. By rating Scenery, RVs, Tents, Shade, and Privacy, the book helps you locate the campgrounds based on what is important to you. The elevation info is great if you have young children who might not appreciate waking up in the snow and I love that the book tells you which tent sites are the most popular since we tend to reserve campsites well in advance of trips. This is a great book.
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Summary: Good reference. Could be better.
Comment: The book is a very good reference on a large number of campgrounds. It has a strength in that it provides pictures, unlike for instance the Moon guide. In my opinion, the book would be better if it covered the CGs more evenly: the authors' choices of "best" very often coincide with "most popular" (read: "most crowded") and the quieter campgrounds do not get the coverage that may be of interest to readers.
Another annoyance I found is numbering of campgrounds. They are not numbered and listed in a logical order that would allow reading about closely located ones in a sequence. Instead, you can read on one and the adjacent one on the map is fife pages down, yet the next one in the text is 50 miles away. This makes one go back and forth between the map and the text if you are trying to get impression on CGs in a certain area.
However, all this notwithstanding, I think this book is well worth having.
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Summary: Rocky Mt. High!
Comment: We have camped in Colorado for years, but this guide gave us new campgrounds to explore and try. We like the idea that the author includes ratings on both tent and RV "friendly" places, as well as including shade and sun, spacing and privacy aspects.
Love the pictures!
We find the format easy to use and the organization by regions is good, too, although the San Luis Valley should be kept separate from the Eastern slope.
This is the first summer we've used the guide, but will keep it in use for many years.
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Summary: Very Comprehensive - especially for RV camping
Comment: I do not own an RV, but noticed that the book is full of campsite info from all around the state, and includes whether the sites allow RV's, tents, pets, if they have hook-ups, ect.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Where are Colorado's very best campgounds? Gil Folsom's indispensible guide takes the guesswork out of sorting through the confusing jumble of campground lists found in most guides. Whether you're pitching your tent or parking your RV, this guide is all you'll ever need. Color-coded regions and practical information regarding directions, facilities, and facts about the area make planning a snap. Full-color scenic photographs will whet your appetite before you even leave home! Let Gil lead you to Colorado's best--in addition to the hundreds of campgrounds that make Colorado one of the best camping states in the country. Almost 500 campgrounds total.
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