MML's Travel blog

This was not a bad spot, though crowded with highway noise and busy tracks nearby. It was level, well vegetated and the small waterfalls were quite nice. I wouldn't suggest it for a class A or a brand new travel trailer that's never been offroad. The outhouse building was bad, door had no latch and there was no TP but it was clean enough. 42°38'05.1"N 112°00'15.7"W good service with Cricket My apologies for not "blogging" in a while. I am better at keeping up with YouTube making videos.

  Just some flat grasslands above Burnt Cabin Gulch, 2wd van access high clearance recommended, good Cricket service and a 16 day limit. Cow pond nearby. I came in on 217 and passed a dozen or so Travel Trailers and RVs but at my campsite all I saw was a group of dirtbikes and a sideXside.    Ponderosa pines, shrub oak(?could be wrong?) and aspen groves a short walk away. 40°39'55.9"N 109°25'06.0"W  

   Another peaceful campsite in Colorado. Located just down the road from some campsites listed on Campendium. 2wd van accessible without any clearance or traction issues, RVs are maybe. Not much to say other than there as a fire ring, some trash and like most of the public land is open range so there was cows, one particularly annoying bull and a couple cattleman rode past on.    Good service with Cricket 40°21'25.0"N 109°01'19.9"W

   I anted to avoid all human contact through the busy holiday weekend so I carefully mapped out a camp, a dead end road near some abandoned or capped oil wells. Nobody should be up there and I did get the full 8 days of peace and quite.    Again I go camping in the oilfield, there's many reasons I do this to myself. Starting with access, these roads, or former roads are cut to get a drilling rig in so when it's dry a 2wd van can get in, if you do see someone they aren't there to socialize they just want to do their job and go home.    Now camping in the oilfield has it's drawbacks, one is that you see firsthand the destruction to our public lands caused by oil corporations, out own citizens and the agencies that are supposed to protect the land, I digress..... 39°23'01.7"N 108°47'48.5"W Here look at some photos:  

   West pipeline Rd runs from Delta, near the airport and Devil's Thumb on BLM WSA land up the side of the Grand Mesa in the NF. It's a dirt road, many would classify as a 4x4 trail but as you can tell I made it a ways up in a Honda Civic and could have made it further.    My goal with this campsite was I wanted some peace and quiet, I knew some snow or rain would be blowing in so there should have been no traffic. That wasn't the case, people outfitted like hunters went up and down the road a few times, starting after it snowed I say "like hunters" because they took until an hour or to after sunrise to even get past my camp, no real hunter hunts that late, they beat the sun if they want to put meat in the freezer    Anyways, picture time. 38°51'18.1"N 108°06'26.5"W Late April 2017