July 1, 2017
Central City KOA
Central City, CO

We drove east on I-70 today, about 157 miles. We went through beautiful Glenwood Canyon, over Vail Pass, and over the Continental Divide (Eisenhower Tunnel), and then down the steep slope from Silver Plume, to Idaho Springs, and then north on Central City Pkwy 7 miles to the KOA.

This is another nice KOA park with large concrete pull through sites.

Up the street and in the distance you can see snow capped mountains. The park is at 8,900 feet in elevation so hot temps shouldn't be an issue. In fact we'll be running the furnace at night. What a nice change from the low 100 degrees in southeast Utah.

Central City is just a mile or two down the road. It's an old mining town established in 1859 but more recently rejuvenated when the State of Colorado passed a law permitting gambling in 1991.

Here are a few facts about the town...

After we got the RV set up, Julie and Steven drove up from Denver to meet us and we went over to Central City for lunch and to tour the town (grown-up talk for "go gamble").

Here is a shot down main street.....

We'll be here for 8 days and then we move down into Denver for a month (2 State Parks again) and then down to Colorado Springs for another month. Due to some crazy Colorado State Park reservation limitations we'll be jumping back and forth between Denver and Colorado Springs, but basically we won't be leaving the area until October 2nd. That will give us plenty of time to visit with family and do some fun things.