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Jellystone Park™ Larkspur

415 RV Sites, 111 Cabins

Jellystone Park at Larkspur in Colorado offers 415 full-hookup RV sites and 111 cabins across 100 wooded acres between Denver and Colorado Springs, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service, cable TV, ADA-accessible sites, and rigs accepted to 50 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. A water park, splash pad, and full Jellystone program run year-round behind a gated entrance. Four hundred fifteen sites span full hookup back-in, premium full hookup, elite full hookup back-in, elite plus full hookup, and elite buddy categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 50 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, and BBQ pits. Buddy sites suit parties traveling together. Accessible sites are available. A general store, laundry, dump station, restrooms, showers, personal mailboxes, and recycling handle the practical side. Recreation is extensive. A water park, splash pad, and outdoor pool anchor the summer, with a hot tub, sauna, fitness center, mini-golf, arcade, and craft room besides. Tennis, pickleball, volleyball, basketball, and a jumping pillow fill the courts, with gem mining, boating, a beach, dog park, playground, community fire pit, and golf cart rentals across the acreage. On-site dining, live music, and planned activities run through the season, and the resort operates as a wedding venue. Pets are welcome. Larkspur sits in Douglas County pine and scrub oak country, 40 miles from Denver and 35 from Colorado Springs. Summer is peak on the Front Range. Reserve well ahead.

from $44/night

Applewood RV Resort

5 RV Sites

Applewood RV Resort in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, provides full-service urban RV camping in Jefferson County's inner suburb immediately west of Denver, giving guests unmatched access to Colorado's metropolitan amenities, dining, cultural institutions, and the Rocky Mountain recreation corridor while maintaining the practical camping infrastructure—water park, pool, full hookup utilities, and a pond with fishing—that makes urban camping in one of America's most active outdoor-recreation cities genuinely comfortable. Wheat Ridge's position on the Clear Creek corridor between Denver's western suburbs and the foothills communities of Golden and Lakewood places the resort at the precise geographic transition point where metropolitan Denver's grid dissolves into the Colorado Front Range's dramatic mountain landscape. The resort's amenity package serves both the urban-access guest and the recreation-oriented camper: a water park and outdoor pool for on-property cooling during Colorado's warm summer afternoons, a pond with fishing, a river and stream access to Clear Creek's front range flow, full hookup sites with reliable utility connections, pet-friendly policies for the dogs that Colorado outdoor culture routinely involves, laundry, showers, bathrooms, personal mailboxes for extended-stay residents, and Wi-Fi serve the diverse guest population whose Jefferson County stays range from overnight transit camping to extended seasonal residency. The state park access nearby and the golf course proximity extend the recreation beyond the resort property into Jefferson County's exceptionally well-developed public land infrastructure. Wheat Ridge's Clear Creek corridor connects the resort to the Clear Creek Canyon trail system that extends westward into the Front Range's canyon terrain—mountain biking, road cycling on the Clear Creek trail to Golden and Morrison, and white water kayaking in Clear Creek Canyon's Class III-IV rapids provide Front Range outdoor recreation of national quality within minutes of the resort's urban location. The Wheat Ridge Greenbelt and the connecting Jefferson County Open Space trail network give walkers, runners, and cyclists a car-free pathway into the Denver metropolitan area's most extensive urban-edge natural area system. Golden, approximately 8 miles west via US-6 or CO-58, is Colorado's most characterful foothill community—the Coors Brewing Company's flagship brewery, the Colorado School of Mines campus on the hillside above town, the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave on Lookout Mountain, and the Clear Creek Whitewater Park in downtown Golden collectively create a day-visit destination of genuine depth and character. Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, 12 miles southwest of Wheat Ridge, is America's most beloved outdoor concert venue—the naturally formed red sandstone rock formations that frame the 9,450-seat amphitheater create an acoustic and visual environment that performers and audiences consistently rate as the finest outdoor performance setting in the country. Applewood RV Resort operates year-round in Jefferson County's Front Range climate, where the 300-plus annual sunny days that define Denver's climate reputation deliver consistent outdoor recreation conditions and the mild winter temperatures that persist on the urban edge of the Front Range make year-round RV residency viable for the extended-stay guests and seasonal snowbird community that the resort's personal mailbox infrastructure serves. Summer's afternoon thunderstorms and the Front Range's predictable daily mountain convection pattern create the dramatic cloudscapes that make Colorado's high-summer sky photography so rewarding, and the resort's proximity to I-70 gives Colorado mountain-bound travelers the most convenient urban-to-mountain launching point in the Front Range corridor.

from $58/night

Cortez RV Resort

46 RV Sites, 12 Cabins, 23 Tent Sites

Cortez RV Resort in Cortez, Colorado, is the ideal basecamp for the ancestral homeland of the Ancestral Puebloans in Montezuma County's Four Corners country — a full-service resort with RV hookups and pet-friendly cabins at the gateway to Mesa Verde National Park and one of the most concentrated collections of ancient Native American archaeological sites in North America, where the cliff dwellings, mesa-top villages, and ceremonial kivas of the Ancestral Puebloan civilization's 13th-century abandonment occupy the canyon country between Cortez and the four-state corner as the most significant pre-Columbian archaeological landscape in the United States. The resort's Cortez position gives guests the most efficient access to Mesa Verde and the surrounding Ancestral Puebloan sites in the Four Corners region. Full-hookup RV sites and pet-friendly cabins give Cortez RV Resort the accommodation range for multi-day Mesa Verde and Four Corners country exploration — the Cliff Palace and Balcony House tours require advance timed entry reservations that a multi-night campground stay specifically accommodates by giving guests the flexibility to align their site visit with the ranger-led tour schedule rather than the day-trip visitor's compressed itinerary. The resort's Cortez proximity to the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center's research and educational programming gives interested guests the scholarly context for the archaeological landscape. Pets are welcome. Mesa Verde National Park, 10 miles east of Cortez on U.S. 160 in Montezuma County, preserves the Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings in Chapin Mesa and Wetherill Mesa in the most concentrated and most architecturally significant collection of prehistoric structures in the United States — the Cliff Palace's 150 rooms and 23 kivas represent the largest cliff dwelling in North America, and the Balcony House's physical access challenge through the 32-foot ladder and the 12-inch ledge traverse give the ranger-led tour its specific adventure character. The park's Chapin Mesa Museum and the Spruce Tree House's accessible court give non-tour visitors the complete Mesa Verde experience alongside the ticketed structure tours. The Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, northwest of Cortez in Montezuma and Dolores Counties, protects the highest known density of archaeological sites in the United States — over 6,000 documented sites per square mile in the canyon country between Cortez and the Utah border, including the Lowry Pueblo, the Painted Hand Pueblo, and the Sand Canyon Pueblo complex that the Bureau of Land Management administers with a fraction of the visitor infrastructure and the visitor volume of the adjacent national park. The monument's canyon country hiking and the archaeological site's open-air accessibility give the visitor the direct contact with the Ancestral Puebloan landscape that the park's managed tour format structures more formally. Cortez RV Resort serves guests year-round in Montezuma County's high-desert climate, where the spring and fall seasons from April through June and September through October deliver the most comfortable temperatures for the archaeological site visiting and the canyon hiking that the Four Corners country sustains. Hovenweep National Monument, 40 miles west of Cortez on the Colorado-Utah border, preserves the six groups of Ancestral Puebloan towers and pueblos in the canyon country west of Cortez that give the Four Corners archaeological circuit its most remote and most architecturally distinctive outlier site. Reserve RV sites and cabins months ahead for the Mesa Verde summer and fall peak seasons.

Laramie RV Resort

87 RV Sites, 8 Cabins, 7 Tent Sites

Laramie RV Resort in Laramie, Wyoming, offers 87 RV sites, eight cabins, and seven tent sites with a water park, fitness center, and library, carrying 20, 30, and 50-amp service for rigs up to 74 feet. Sites range from 30-amp back-ins to deluxe and premium pull-throughs with patios, on a big-rig-friendly property at 7,165 feet on the I-80 corridor. Eighty-seven sites run from 30-amp back-ins and water-and-electric pull-throughs to 20/30-amp pull-throughs, deluxe pull-throughs, and premium pull-throughs with patios, all sized to 74 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, and BBQ pits. Eight cabins and seven tent sites round out the accommodations. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, dump station, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. There is no limit on the number of people included in a site rental and no charge for additional guests. The amenity set is unusually deep for a highway-corridor resort. A water park anchors warm-weather recreation, a fitness center and clubhouse run year-round, and a library and game room serve quieter hours. Billiards, a playground, and a dog park round it out, with a creek running the property. Pets are welcome. Laramie's altitude gives it cool summers when the Colorado Front Range is baking. The University of Wyoming sits in town, and the Snowy Range and Medicine Bow National Forest carry the alpine recreation that makes this one of the more underrated bases on I-80 between Cheyenne and Salt Lake City. Summer is peak for both the water park and the mountains. Reserve ahead for university event weekends, which tighten Laramie lodging considerably.

from $50/night