Planning a trip to CO, need advice

[clandr1]

Hey fellas,

I'm planning a trip to Colorado the last week of August to do some offroading, camping, and maybe some hiking. I'd like to follow some fire roads in the National Forest in the rockies south and west of Denver.

For those of you who are familiar, what are your suggestions on where we should go? I am NOT looking for any hard core trails, just some dirt roads, creek crossings, and light to moderate off roading. Here are the rigs I'll have with so you can get an idea of our limited capabilities:

'89 GMC Jimmy, all stock besides 2.5" superlift and 33" tires. 10 bolts locked in the rear w/ Gov-Lock

'94 Land cruiser, 2.5" OME lift with 33" equivalent on stock rims. Open diffs front and rear.

No winch, no hi lift jack, just some recovery straps and a hand winch (cumalong).

We're mainly looking for the camping and outdoors experience with the off roading coming in as a peripheral of the trip, not the focus. We want to get our rigs dirty and use them, but not to crawl rocks or forge a river.

Thanks for any input!

Chris

 

[HeftyFabworks]

traildamage.com has maps and listings of most of the trails in CO as well as descriptions and difficulty ratings

 

[SHANES SOCAL 70 K5]

I'm not familiar with the rout you want to take. but when I go out on my dirt bike, my friend and I all have GPS units. That are loaded with topo maps for ware we will be. Topo maps are maps of off road trails. I think you can get some programs that over lap with road maps. But it can get spendy. But at least you will know ware you are at all times. And the hardest thing about a trip like that, is that you never know what the weather has done to a fire road, or so called easy trail. Good luck, hope it all goes good for you. Sounds like a fun trip, if you are prepared. Or if you see the hard times you will have to over come as the fun.

 

[ktmoutfront]

Look me up. We could show you around and give advice about camping areas. From Colorado Springs you could wheel fun areas for days.

 

[clandr1]

Look me up. We could show you around and give advice about camping areas. From Colorado Springs you could wheel fun areas for days.

I appreciate it. As we get closer to the trip I'll touch base with you.

traildamage.com has maps and listings of most of the trails in CO as well as descriptions and difficulty ratings

Awesome site, thanks! That should really help us plan.

 

[ktmoutfront]

Trail damage lists a small percent of what is out in the Rockies for wheeling. we have found more cool trails just out running around and saying "where does that go?"

We got into one Sunday that got so narrow with trees, I might have knocked over a 1 foot diameter tree turning around. Took use 2 hours to go 1.5 miles up and back. But it was fun. Or we just look for good camping spot in the middle of nowhere.

 

[TDAWG1]

IF your out by Grand Junction look me up

 

[quinryan]

One of the neatest things you could do is a ghost town tour. Colorado (like the other Western states) is loaded with dead mining towns, most of which are only accesible in a 4WD. I HIGHLY recommend it. You'll get to see a bunch of history and some terrain that you will not see in Kansas.

 

[ktmoutfront]

One of the neatest things you could do is a ghost town tour. Colorado (like the other Western states) is loaded with dead mining towns, most of which are only accesible in a 4WD. I HIGHLY recommend it. You'll get to see a bunch of history and some terrain that you will not see in Kansas.

Highjack on.

Where did you come from? It is amazing how many CK5 members are in C.S.

Highjack off.

 

[lak2004]

well if you come through the south west corner of colorado (durango). you can hit me up as well. i can point you in the direction of some awesome drives and camping.

 

[clandr1]

Thanks for all the suggestions and offers. I'll be sure to reach out to a few of you as the trip gets closer.