I spent three nights in the Pueblo Lake State Park which is just outside Pueblo, CO, to the southwest. This is a nice park and lake. However; I just couldn’t find the time to put the kayak in the water or do much exploring.
The park is very large and offers many hiking, biking, kayaking, and sightseeing opportunities. The Royal Gorge is just a few miles west, is very impressive, and worth the time to take a look!
I stayed in the Eagle View Loop in the Northern Plains Campground. This loop has 15 campsites.
It is interesting to me how many parks close huge sections during the off-season – Lake Pueblo is no different. In the Northern Plains Campground, only the Eagle View Loop was open, the remaining 170-ish campsites were closed. The thing that is odd, in my opinion, is that all of the available spaces were reserved (as near as I could tell) and there were no spaces available for me or others that may just pop in. Now, the first obvious thing that comes to mind is that power and water is shutoff to these closed sections. That is not the case, I checked (whilst out walking around). There are not even campground hosts – as near as I could tell, it was a matter of opening a gate. Oh well… probably much more complex that it appears.
So, I moved up the road to Haggards RV Campground (west of Pueblo on Highway 50). Haggards is a nice little roadside campground. The owners are super nice and very helpful! There is some road noise from Highway 50 but it isn’t too bad.
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