Salida Campgrounds

Many visitors to Salida and the central Colorado region prefer to set up a base of operations in a campground or RV park. Here, they can feel closer to the outdoor paradise known as Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. With this choice, it’s all about nature, family, friends, and flexibility in travel. 

We searched the Internet to see just why some travelers prefer camping over hotel accommodations and came across the following enlightening comments:

Top Ten Reasons Camping is Better than Staying in a Hotel…

1. those landscape paintings hanging on the wall are now the ‘real thing’
2. food tastes better
3. raindrops sounding on the tent
4. economics — less expensive than cramming a family into a hotel
5. trees, critters, stars, streams, bonfires, dutch oven cobbler, s’mores
6. thunderstorms, up close and personal
7. if the view doesn’t suit, turn your tent/RV
8. no need to worry about losing your key to a tent
9. pay perview for free, in many forms, and all around you (see #5)
10. calories don’t count when you eat outside

Find your very own “Top Ten” at any one of the following campgrounds and RV parks in and around Salida, Colorado.