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Old 04-28-2012, 03:12 PM   #21
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A couple of years ago we stayed at a State Park right outside of Mancos, Colo. I don't think they charged us an xtra fee for the tow vehicle but they did tack on the daily use fee on top of the camping rate. For a park that had no hookups I thought that it made it pretty expensive. Nice park though. Don't recall the cell phone quality there.

Kyle, you didn't mention if you are able to use military base facilities. If so, Air Force Academy at Colo. Springs has a super campground. If not, sorry. It was mentioned earlier as a recommendation, the N. Rim of Grand Canyon. Great stop but maybe not for you. Long drive to get into the park. They have a campground but without reservations good luck. Doubt they have the cell coverage you need. There is a small campground along the way in the National Forest but small sites and no hookups ( if I remember ).
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Old 04-28-2012, 05:22 PM   #22
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Kyle,

You might want to take a look at this months Blue Beret. I'm new but when I was reading in the regional news clips, it said that a balloon rally in Albuquerque is cancelled on Oct 5-8. Check out page 56.

Ill be following this thread as well, thank you. We travel the 160 up from AZ through to 145 and up to Montrose twice each winter. We take the TV and not the AS - we just got that . The roads are not a problem. Ive done it in a storm as well. In fact, we've seen a few AS in Dolores ( someone there is host, I believe). Telluride has Matterhorn CG. They say Alta Lakes is good, getting there is on dirt roads. We'll scope it out. Then onto Crested Butte. There are a few threads in the forums about that. Looks like One Mile CG is a good option closer to CB. Ridgway state park looked beautiful when I drove by in March.

Our cell service is spotty in the 4 corners. DH has ATT which isn't as good as my VZN. And still, it's not reliable on the reservation past Tuba City and up to Kayenta and spotty again past Kayenta and up to Ute Mtn area.

But please check that posting in the Blue Beret May 2012 there's a contact number as well.

Ironically, I shot this pic on 550 looking south:
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Old 04-28-2012, 06:55 PM   #23
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The 4CU Balloon Fiesta is not cancelled. The New Mexico Unit was going to have a Special Events Rally on the same dates, but their rally was being held at the New Mexico Fairgrounds. The New Mexico rally has been cancelled, not the 4CU rally which is held on the grounds of the Balloon Fiesta.
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Old 04-28-2012, 07:45 PM   #24
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We stayed at Mancos SP last year and there was no separate fee for tow vehicles, but the board that sets fees meets in the fall and raises rates then. The state server is still down and was yesterday too, so I can't check rates.

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Old 04-29-2012, 10:05 AM   #25
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Hey Kyle:

Durango is a great town to spend some time in. We had a home in town when one of our sons attended Fort Lewis college there. I have Verizon and never had any problem at all in town. You will be off the grid south of Bloomfield, NM as you head to ABQ. You won't get much service on 550 pretty much until you get near Bernalillo, NM.

As for Durango:
Easy trip to Mesa Verde
Easy day trip to Pagosa Springs or Silverton.
Four.....yep....FOUR microbreweries in Durango: Ska, Steamworks, Carvers and Durango Brewing
Great people and a cool downtown with many good restaurants, historic buildings, cool shops.
Tourists in summer/fall are outdoor athletes, bikers, rv'ers, artists, crafts types.
Fly fishing, tubing and rafting in the Animas River which rolls right through town.
Amazing breakfast at Carvers, great bakery aptly named Bread, dinner specials at different places every night of the week.
Great hiking and mountain bike trails leaving right from town.
Did I mention the microbreweries?
And say hi to Chad, the bartender at Old Timers for us.

And the drive between Durango and Albuquerque is beautiful. Good roads. Just watch the speed traps especially in Aztec.
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Old 04-30-2012, 06:08 PM   #26
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Balloon Festival- Albuquerque, NM

If you are flexible for hook ups, water and electricity... as there are NONE. Water is available to the north of the RV park area and south of the employee building at the edge of the parking lot area. It is about ten feet off the pavement and the pump is painted blue.

The Sandia Casino offers FREE RV parking in their east parking lot area. It will be marked off for only RV's during the festival. They will have you fill out some small form so they know who you are and your plates for reference. It overlooks the festival and obviously must provide great viewing.

Since we are the shy types when it comes to crowds, when the festival is getting close to begin, we head off to our back country camping plans and have not stayed for the show. We happened to be there just before the festival was to begin and there was plenty of space three days before it began.

There are exact directions to get to the Sandia Casino in the Boondocking Forums. The Casino has great facilities for food, golfers, swimming pool and of course an outstanding variety of gaming options. The early birds get the flatter spots to pull into a position to view the festival, so come several days early to pick a spot.
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Old 04-30-2012, 07:09 PM   #27
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Here's a chart that shows where Verizon should work for you. Having traveled recently through the general area of interest to you carrying a Verizon iPad and a Verizon MiFi card for the laptop, I can say that service ranged from excellent to barely useable in areas reportedly supported by Verizon. Some times it was as simple as which side of the hill I was on.

Maps from technomadia.com.
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Thank you everyone for your help and advice. I've decided on our itinerary. From Colorado Springs, we're going to head over to the Great Sand Dunes National Park area, over to Durango and then down to Albuquerque. We'll use Durango and Albuquerque as bases for day trips out to the surrounding sites. Given only having a month and a half and needing to stay connected, this is probably the best bet.

We looked at some of the other suggestions (especially Moab) but either couldn't make the timing work or everything was already full due to local events. I know there's a lot that we're not seeing, but that just means we'll need another trip next year.

Thanks again everyone.
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question about alternative to 550: How's the road to cut east from 145 south of Telluride through Ophir??
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Old 05-05-2012, 06:18 PM   #32
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question about alternative to 550: How's the road to cut east from 145 south of Telluride through Ophir??
Last time we took that road was more than 20 years ago. I assume you mean the one that goes to 550 from Ophir. A high centered 2wd pickup could have made it then, certainly not for an Airstream. I doubt it is any better now.

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Old 05-05-2012, 09:15 PM   #33
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Got you beat, Gene. I tried it in 1968 with my 1967 VW Beetle. Didn't make it and had to back down a mountainside a looooong way.

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Last time we took that road was more than 20 years ago. I assume you mean the one that goes to 550 from Ophir. A high centered 2wd pickup could have made it then, certainly not for an Airstream. I doubt it is any better now.

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Old 05-06-2012, 01:08 AM   #34
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Thx. Thought it might be out of the question. Can't always tell from google earth! Just wanted to change up the telluride trip instead of back tracking through Dolores.
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Old 05-19-2012, 07:41 PM   #36
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We just spent several weeks in NM and one of my favorite experiences was a trip to Acoma Pueblo (Sky City) about 50 miles west of Albquerque, but then, I'm a nerd and love history!!! Also, the petroglyphs were the best we've seen so far.

Trailer Ranch RV Resort in Santa Fe was wonderful. We stayed a week! Also, try breakfast at Tune-Up Cafe in Santa Fe (Diners, Drive Ins, & Dives). Chaco Canyon near Bloomfield is really "off the grid" but we parked the AS in Bloomfield and camped one night at Chaco in the truck. Again, Native American history and nerd!!! Loved it!
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Regarding Airstream camping, I find that generally the better the scenery gets, the worse the cell reception. I also use Verizon and my solution to the reception issue is an external antenna plus an amplifier. To effectively use data on the Internet, a stronger signal is needed than what might suffice for a voice call. Wilson makes a number of suitable equipment choices.
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How did your trip go? We are possibly looking at something similar way down the road in 2014.
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MsRivet,

Our trip went very well.

We started off in Colorado Springs, headed up to Denver for Alumafandango, down to Great Sand Dunes, over to Durango, then down to Albuquerque, with lots of sightseeing in the areas we were. We typically pick a "home base" for a couple weeks or more and then drive around to enjoy the general vicinity before heading further down the road.

We blogged our trip, starting with this post.
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We spent a good amount of time boondocking, State Parks, and private campgrounds last year in Co, NM, and AZ. We use an ATT IPhone5 for GPS and an IPad4/Macbook Pro for internet. Except in some of the mountain pass/ crevasses above 10,000k we very seldom lost connectivity for more than an hour or so and anybody who wished to contact us could leave a text message.While camping was great in all of the States mentioned, Flyfishing was good in the numerous creeks of Gunnison Nat'l Forest, CO and outstanding near Angel Fire, NM. We believe NM has the best State Park system of the three in terms of quantity, quality, and variety of attractions. I volunteer with Arizona State Parks so I know a bit about them.
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