Old Colorado City, Colorado Springs, August 22, 2004, teardrop trailer
There was some sort of festival in progress the day that we visited Old Colorado City.
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Gallery: Cripple Creek, Old Colorado City, Manitou Springs, etc. – August 22, 24, & 27, 2004
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A post in a Seattle Times blog, nwautos, discusses four of today’s crop of small camping trailers.
If you think of travel trailers as mobile motels for the retired set, think again. Their popularity is surging among families and adventurers wanting to make the most of the road-trip destinations available in our vast and beautiful backyard.
They are cheaper than RVs, far greener, can go pretty much anywhere, and can be towed by nearly any truck or SUV and, in some cases, even small cars. This new generation of trailers is hipper, lighter and more agile than ever before.
The four camping trailers in the post are
Read the entire nwautos post: Car campers: Travel trailers are getting smaller, cooler and more multifunctional.
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Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado, August 2004
Our second stop of our 2004 Colorado Springs trip was Colorado Springs, where we had a reservation in a hotel. One of the first places we wanted to visit was Garden of the Gods, a free Colorado Springs city park. We liked it so much that we returned the next day to finish see the park. It has several trails as well as a nice auto tour
My first visit here, which I don’t really remember, was in 1957, when I went to Colorado with my grandparents and uncle. I was 5 years old.
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Gallery: Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs – August 22 & 23, 2004
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The economy is loosening up and people seem to be changing the way they vacation. These, along with other factors, are resulting in improved RV sales, according to an article in the Denver Business Journal.
Recreational vehicle (RV) dealers report big sales increases, and RV show organizers say there’s been higher attendance at their events in early 2010.
The number of RV units shipped from national manufacturers to dealers rose by 116 percent from January 2009 to January 2010, from 7,300 units to 15,800, according to the Reston, Va.-based Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA). The numbers have spurred RVIA officials to predict shipments will increase 30 percent this year, a predictor of vehicle sales.
That growing interest in motorized homes and non-motorized trailers was visible at two Denver-area RV shows this year. Attendance at January’s Colorado RV Adventure Travel Show at the Colorado Convention Center rose by 24 percent over last year. And it was up 14 percent at March’s Colorado RV, Sports, Boat and Travel Show at the National Western Complex, said Vilma Fraguada, regional manager for Affinity Events, organizer of both shows.
Read the rest of the Denver Business Journal article: RV dealers expect much better sales this year
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Frontier Park, Hays, Kansas.
In 2004, we took a short trip to Colorado, where we had rented a small A-frame cabin near Cripple Creek for a week. We took two days to get there. Our first stop was in Hays, Kansas, on August 21.
I have no idea if this tree carving still exists.
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Gallery: On the Road, August 2004
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Canton Lake’s Sandy Cove Recreation Area was our first camping stop on our 4 week western trip in 2009. It was an early enough stop for some leisurely relaxation. It also provided a wonderful setting for a glorious sunset – and plenty of photos!
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Gallery: Canton Lake – August 29, 2009
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Near Moraine Park Campground, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, September 4, 2009
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Gallery: Moraine Park Elk and Estes Park area – September 4, 2009
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Over the last few weeks, I’ve been working on new photo galleries, mostly from Colorado and some from as far back as 2004.
I’ll be posting a few images from these galleries over the next several weeks.
Except for photos while we are traveling, most of the images that I post from my photography are randomly selected from my on-line galleries.
I am currently publishing images on alternate days on two blogs, exit78 and Haw Creek Out ‘n About. Except for photos that may have been posted during a trip, photos are only published on a blog one time and the images are not replicated between the two blogs.
We will be traveling again this year and will be visiting new places as well as old favorites – and, of course, I will have a lot more new photos.
Colorado
Kansas
Oklahoma
Canton Lake – August 29, 200
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Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, September 11, 2007
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Information – Yellowstone National Park
Gallery: Madison River to Canyon, September 11, 2007
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Huckleberry Trail, Woolly Hollow State Park, Arkansas, November 4, 2007
Located in the rolling hills just to the south of the Ozarks and 50 miles north of Little Rock, the 370 acre Wooly Hollow area was established as a state park in 1973.
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Woolly Hollow State Park – info
Gallery: Woolly Hollow State Park
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