Colorado State Forest State Park

The last week of August we took our summer vacation and went camping for a week in the Colorado Rockies. We went to a place we've gone before called the state forest state park. The state forest is located about an hour and a half west of Fort Collins, just over Cameron Pass. The park is famous for its moose population - although we've never seen one there.

This time we decided to rent a camping cabin since we had the puppy and we figured he might not do well with a tent. The cabin is located on North Michigan Lake.



The view from the cabin across the lake is quite nice. We saw a lot of folks fishing and the fish they caught looked great. Notice the brown pine trees in the surrounding mountains. This die off is due to an explosion in the Mountain Pine beetle. Except in the highest forests the die off is over 90%.



Inside the cabin was a pot belly stove, which we didn't use, for warming the cabin, a table and beds. Its was quite comfy for camping.




We got some great sunsets from the front porch. And the weather was quite moderate.