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St. Vrain to Gurnsey SP Wyoming: Information and Driving Directions
April 2025 Park Information: Phone / Internet service Driving Directions (177 miles) Rest Areas Site Information Site Pictures Trail Map
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Shady Grove to St. Vrain State Park: Information and Driving Directions
April 2025 General Park Information Internet / Mobile Service Driving Directions – 157 miles Rest Areas Campsite details Campsite pictures
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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)…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Cedar Bluff SP to Shady Grove Campground – Information and Directions
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 a lot to offer…
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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…
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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…
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St. Vrain State Park – Day 1
Longmont, CO, April 2025 We started off the moving day with about an inch of snow and 29 degrees at 7 am. If you know me, I’m not fond of the cold. We made the decision to sleep in and get up at 8:30 and leave around 11 or so. Hoping the snow would be…