Oops!

Tuesday morning we left our beautiful campsite at Pallisade and finished the last few miles of the Silver Thread Highway and then headed west across Hwy 160.

We had more clouds on the way and had a couple more mountain passes to go through, but not as high or steep as some of our earlier ones.

Along Hwy 160 we passed this unique rock formation. We may take a side trip later to check it out!

Arriving in Durango, we headed to what was to be our campground for the next couple of nights. It was at the fairgrounds so I went into the office to check in. This is where the ‘oops’ came in. My reservation wasn’t to start until the next night! I hadn’t checked our schedule and I was a day ahead! The 6 sites there were all full for the night. I was really upset with myself since we had left such a beautiful campground.

Checking a few area campsites didn’t make me any happier – $80 – 100 a night, even if only for one night, wasn’t encouraging. We decided to take a gamble and drove about 8 km out of town, partly on gravel, to a National Forest Campground. The reservation system showed all sites reserved but I hoped there might be a couple of ‘first come, first served’ sites still left since it was early afternoon. We got lucky and the campground host showed us to a non-electric site that we could fit into and we had a great evening!