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St vrain state park


 We left Glenwood Canyon Saturday morning; arrived at St Vrain State Park by lunch. It’s a convenient camp fifteen miles from Becky and Brian. Matt brought the boys up and we all met a Becky and Brian’s for a nice family afternoon and dinner. This park has been here a long time. It was a county park before the state took it over. Altogether there are 87 camp sites sprinkled around about a dozen fishing ponds. Nice site separation. It’s close in to the Denver Metro area, so it gets a lot of weekend use; not so much during the week. The old campsite section has mature trees and water and electric hookups for RVs. The state built a new camping section with full hookups; where we are this trip. They planted a few bushes, trees; and some grass. It’s going to be really nice when it grows up.
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Glenwood canyon resort


 Regardless of how a project looks when it’s done, we believe people generally have reasons for what they do. We don’t think people usually do things just so they’ll look stupid. Take this RV park; for example. There used to be a tent camping section up top, a trailer park at the mid level, and the camping loop down by the river. First they redid the top section several years ago so they could park some RVs up there and put in some park model cabins. Then they took out the trailer park on the mid level so they could put in some big rig sites. They got all the residents of the trailer park moved out. That took about a year because they gave them so much time to get relocated. Two of the trailers could be towed out. The rest got demolished onsite. During the next year, they knocked out any concrete and asphalt, bulldozed the space flat, marked out the sites, put in the utilities, and put in rocks and a few trees for landscaping. Now the big rig sites are open. Utility hookups for RVs are always on the left side (at least in this country). They generally put them toward the rear of the motorhome, considering whether they mean for it to be a pull-in, back-in, or pull-through site. These are all back-in sites. They did put the hookups on the left of the coach, but then they put the electrical hookup at the rear wheel, the water hookup even with the front wheel, and the sewer hookup eighteen feet in front of that. It doesn’t matter how you align yourself in the site, it’s going to be a stretch to reach something. In our case, we don’t really have much leeway. We have to back all the way in or we’ll stick out the front of the site. The electrical hookup is in just the right place. We can reach the water spigot with one hose. The sewer hose.,.. no matter. We carry plenty. Our challenge is to figure out what they were thinking when they laid this out, or what external forces conspired to wreck their plan.