What is camping?
I took a walk around the neighborhood this morning and noticed that many boats and RVs were missing. I don't think thieves took them during the night, so my guess is that most of them are about 3 miles away at Chatfield Reservoir State Park.
A long time ago, I used to camp there, but camping at Colorado state parks got so expensive that I seldom stay at one anymore. I do buy a State Park annual entrance pass that I get when I renew my truck tag every year, and it's a bargain at less than $30, which is the only bargain residents get at Colorado State Parks.
I understand why they raised the camping prices as high as they have; all you have to do is look at the reservations for the parks, and you will see they're all full, so why not raise the prices when there's plenty of people who will pay just about anything to camp in a State Park, where they can pretend to be out in the woods, instead of going to just about anywhere in the nearby Pike National Forest and actually camp in the woods for free.
I know, I know, some folks have to have water, sewer, and electricity hookups so they can leave home and feel like they're living in the woods, yet have all the conveniences of home while pretending to live in the woods. And that's fine for the older folks who actually need those hookups, but if you're a young family living with kids, I don't think that sets a good example of how to camp; it just gives the kids endless electricity to play video games all day.
But that's the old geezer in me talking; I know times have changed, and there's no need for kids to know anything about the outdoors when they go from their air-conditioned house to their air-conditioned truck, into an air-conditioned RV, but it seems like something in their life is missing when they're not exposed to real camping.
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