Sand Dunes, Alamosa

The Great Sand Dunes was our next stop-over.  We wanted to camp in the Sand Dunes campground, but alas the spots were smaller (much!) than I wanted to back into with Rosalita, so we ventured elsewhere.  We had stayed at Crestone Campground when we were tooling around in 1998, but there is not much there and you are smack dab against your fellow RV campers.  So we decided to be adventurous and looked at San Luis Lake St. Park, half way between the Sand Dunes and Alamosa.  It looks like a birders paradise and I think we have several friends who frequent this area in the spring watching the Sand Hill Crane migration.

This campground (San Luis) was situated among sagebrush and rabbitbrush, with sand as soil.  The expansive Dunes were the backdrop, with the Lake in the foreground, Mt. Crestone towering over all – shadowing the dunes, and the fall yellow foliage framing the view.  Not a tree in the campground, note to self re: summer NO TREES.

While we were in the Official Great Sand Dunes campground, we only got the up-close and personal view; from the San Luis Lake campground we got the wide-angle view, intensity on a Grand Stage.

The campsite, San Luis Lake, is nothing to boast of in terms of a river to dine by, a lake to watch Osprey, fish jumping, trails beside the stream to hike… no, nothing such as that!  But the views and the silence were a decent trade-off.  As the shadows grew and the colors deepened & softened, saturation was infused naturally.  The clouds were just hangin’ not in any rush to go anywhere. It was a serene atmosphere to all the senses.

It seems as though I cannot upload pictures, not sure what the problem is, but I will add them when I figure the problem out!!!  Sorry! I was able to post some pictures, still working on it…. Thanks for your patience.