Morefield Campground

We arrived here on July 23 for 3 nights and is located inside the Mesa Verde National Park.  No need to make reservations here as there were many open sites, unless you need full hookups which they did not have many of those and they were booked.  Our site was relatively level on gravel with cut grass surrounding our site.  The sites were spread out nicely.  The sites are first come, first served; so you can select any open site which we like.  We had satellite reception, but no cell service.  Deer visited our campground daily.  Camping fees were a little high at $26 per night, but we were able to get half off with our Senior America the Beautiful Pass.  There is also an additional $15 entrance fee to the park which allows you 7 continuous days.  They did have fresh water and dump station at entrance of campground.  I rate this campground F***.

We took a day trip to Durango one day to re-stock our groceries.  The downtown area had a lot of unique shops, but I was not up to walking around town today.  You can catch a train ride up the hill to Silverton from here, but we were going through there after leaving Mesa Verde on our way to Gunnison.  We did wander through a few residential neighborhoods.  Could not find any high end homes here.  As it turns out we should have been looking about 40 miles east to Pagosa Springs.  We did stop in a cute town just east of Mesa Verde National Park called Mangos.  We poked into the shops on the one block where all the art shops were located.  We spotted a beautiful beveled glass mirror framed with solid polished stone created by a local artist.  Aggie would like to replace our large mirror in the master bath with two individual mirrors and these would fit the bill, but I have more pressing needs for $1000 at this time.

The next day we toured the park.  (a separate post)