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  • St. Vrain State Park, CO to Guernsey State Park, WY

    Guernsey State Park, WY, April 2025 The total drive is about 172 miles. These directions take you to the Sandy Point Campground. Skyline, Newell Bay, Sandy Beach, Sandy Point, Cottonwood Cove, and Sandy Cove Campgrounds are along the way or just past Sandy Point Campground. Driving Directions Rest Stops General Notes

  • Shady Grove Campground, CO to St. Vrain State Park, CO

    St. Vrain State Park, CO, April 2025 The total drive is about 157 miles. Driving Directions Rest Stops General Notes

  • Cedar Bluff State Park, KS to Shady Grove Campground, CO

    Shady Grove Campground, CO, April 2025 The total drive is about 293 miles. Driving Directions Rest Stops General Notes

  • We Did The Math … Wrong?

    Longmont, CO, April 2025 While walking through the cereal aisle, John spotted math on a cereal box. He took a picture because this challenge could not be ignored. As it turns out, this was a necessary evil. Almost everything about this marketing blurb is wrong. Problem #1 The surface area of a torus (i.e., doughnut)…

  • Animals at St. Vrain State Park

    Longmont, CO, April 2025 St. Vrain State Park is about 50 feet from highway 25, a major north/south route in the area. You can hear the traffic on the highway 24/7. The only exception might be when they close the road in the winter. For being as urban as it is, the park has a…

  • Greenway St. Vrain Trail

    Longmont, CO, April 2025 The St. Vrain river passes through Longmont, CO, and there is a bike trail that runs along part of the river (and tributaries). When completed, the trail should run from Greenway to St. Vrain State Park, but it stops about 3 miles short. From reading the sign, we learned that the…

  • Rocky Mountain National Park

    Estes Park, CO, April 2025 Rocky Mountain National Park is about 35 miles west of Longmont, CO. (Longmont is about 40 miles north of Denver.) Due to the winding roads, the drive to the park takes about an hour from Longmont. Some of the views on the drive were stunning. To get to the eastern…

  • Shady Grove CG, CO: Information

    Shady Grove Campground, CO, April 2025 One of the more notable features is a red pay phone. That actually works. This is first park with a pay phone feature especially in the days of everyone having a cell phone. My guess is that some cell phone carriers don’t have service The town did not have…

  • Bunny, Wood Street Signs, Restaurants, and More

    Seibert, CO, April 2025 Seibert, Colorado is a town of 5 blocks square, 176 people, has 3 places to eat, no grocery stores, 1 school serving K – 12, and a post office that been in operation since 1888. We found a few endearing things about the town that we thought you might enjoy. The…

  • Cancel Stamp Frenzy – Rocky Mountain National Park

    Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, April 2025 One of my best purchases has been the Collector’s Edition Passport to the National Parks book. I collect cancel stamps from each National Park, National Forest, National Monument, etc that we visit. Each stamp has the date and park visited. John has to deal with my dragging him…