Durango offers numerous dispersed camping options for nature lovers. With its proximity to the San Juan National Forest, the La Plata Mountains, and the Weminuche Wilderness, visitors can find secluded spots to pitch their tent or park their RV. The dispersed camping areas around Durango offer many…
Outdoorsy is an outdoor travel marketplace helping people rent RVs since 2015 to experience nature’s joys. We dig the outdoors so much that we just hit a personal record for sending our 1 millionth family on an RV-focused trip. That’s over 6 million nights that our people have spent outdoors…
There’s nothing like the crackle and pop of a glowing campfire. Not to mention the warmth and dancing lights a good fire provides under the stars. It’s one of the more enjoyable aspects of camping. The wilderness is a magical place where myth and legend reign supreme. Fire safety while camping…
Travel Back in Time at these Campgrounds Durango is in close proximity to Mesa Verde National Park, one of the world’s 27 UNESCO World Heritage sites and home to some of the best-preserved ancestral Pueblo archaeological sites. The park and the region that surrounds it are also spectacular places…
Enhance the Enjoyment of Durango, Colorado’s Natural Beauty By Being Firewise: Tips & Tricks on How You Can Prevent Wildfires When You’re Enjoying the Great Outdoors or Camping. Smokey the Bear is a pretty busy bear and is unable to join every campsite for roasting marshmallows and telling stories…
Home is where you park it. For the American RV community, Durango is a premier destination for remote wilderness access, pristine amenities, and unbeatable campground views. In a scenic locale where you can sip morning coffee from the base of a mountain and catch dinner from the neighboring alpine…
Newcomers to Durango often face the same dilemma: we share a deep fascination with our town’s history but with little information to go on. We devour books, visit museums, take pictures of historical buildings and scan every plaque and sign downtown in hopes of new information to be learned. But…
You don’t need to live on the coast to enjoy water sports. Sailing, surfing, tubing and even diving are all a short ride away when you make your basecamp in Durango, Colorado. The Grand Opening to Nature’s Waterpark takes place every spring, when snowmelt begins to flood our creeks, rivers, alpine…
An uncharacteristically dry winter season has brought drought to Southwest Colorado, which menas this summer our forests need even more love than usual! As of June 1st, Durango and the surrounding San Juan National Forest are under Stage 2 Fire Restrictions. Being located in such a dry, high-desert…
If we labeled every hiking destination near Durango a “must-see,” nobody would ever leave the backcountry. Our neighboring Weminuche wilderness is huge, at ¾ the size of Rhode Island and consisting of nearly 500,000 acres of pristine alpine adventure. There are infinite ways to find solitude and…
