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To help, the forest service met with the national park few weeks ago, Armstrong said. “We are going to be working with Rocky Mountain National Park, their front desk and their volunteers, to do some training and provide some information about dispersed camping. We’re going to be putting something together so they can provide some of that information to their visitors.”
There are seven national forest campgrounds with 252 campsites located along the Peak to Peak Highway between Estes Park and Nederland, including two within 15 miles of the park’s eastern entrance gates. Armstrong also suggests campers consider options on the west side of the park. There are 15 national forest campgrounds with more than 400 sites there, four of those located within 15 miles of the park’s Grand Lake entrance.
Davion Nickens, 6, at left, and his brother Wyatt, 4, cook hot dogs on the campfire with their mother Anna, at right, in an area of National Forest near Gordon Gulch near the town of Nederland. Another option is dispersed camping on national forest land, although that means going without amenities, potable water or trash receptacles, not to mention burying human waste and practicing “
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