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The Best in Tent Camping: Colorado, 4th: A Guide for Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos (Best in Tent Camping - Menasha Ridge) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Johnny Molloy, Kim Lipker
Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 463256
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 184
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0897326458
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.88068
EAN: 9780897326452
ASIN: 0897326458
Publication Date: June 15, 2007
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Condition: BRAND NEW
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Product Description
The only guide to Colorado’s best tent camping just got better! Completely updated, re-organized for ease of use, and containing five new campgrounds, The Best in Tent Camping: Colorado continues to lead tent campers to the best of Colorado’s best. The newly designed campground layout maps, UTM and Latitude/Longitude coordinates for each campground entrance, descriptive text, and ratings for security, quiet, and beauty makes the new edition of The Best in Tent Camping: Colorado a must-have for every tent camper’s library.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Should Be Called "Best Places to Fish in Colorado" January 20, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I got this book because I am planning a trip to Colorado this summer. I like to camp in out of the way areas. I really found the book by the same publisher "Best Tent Camping in Southern California" worthwhile in planning a vacation there. After reading this book, I must say I could be turned off of camping in Colorado. I was hoping for a guide of things to do in the area while camping. What I got was the most completely remote campsites, which could be good, along with reviews of the fishing and fourteeners in the general area of the campground. I understand that it must have been difficult to narrow the statistics when Colorado is home to over 500 beautiful campgrounds. But this author seemed to base his rating on the availability of nearby fishing and mountaineering. This book was not useful in the respect of things to do in the area of the campground besides fishing and hiking. If that's what you're into, fine, but I like privacy, beauty, and a few interesting places to go. I'm not into fish, I don't care how big they are.
 Very Helpful, has a new map December 6, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this guide very helpful to pick campgrounds around Colorado. The whole state is covered and dozens of undesirable campgrounds are weeded out. Certain copies had an inaccurate map but I have been assured by the publisher that all new books have a new and accurate map. A road map or Forest Service map is still recommended since many of these campgrounds are far off the beaten path.
 Buyer beware August 12, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was drawn to this book by it's clever subtitle - "A Guide for Car Campers Who Hate RV's . . . " and so forth, thinking that this fit our style of camping. After reviewing the campgrounds for the SW CO section alone, I found that 6 of the 12 are not in the locations that are listed on the master map inside the front cover. One individual campground map (Silver Jack) indicated that the road out led to Westcliffe, CO. This is very inaccurate, as the closest town that direction is Gunnison. Westcliffe is almost 125 miles past Gunnison, and one must pass through 3 or 4 other towns and turn south from this highway to get there - i.e. it's way off!
I have no idea about the reliability of the remainder of the maps and descriptions, as I quit reading after seeing so many mistakes, and decided that I would return the book. It is possible that the rest of the book is without mistakes, but I honestly don't want to take the time to double check every entry for accuracy. I figure that this is why I spend money on a guide book. I could understand some amount of error with a 1st or 2nd edition, but to see this number of errors in a 4th edition seems quite slack. I don't know if things will be amended soon, as this edition came out in 2007. The campground and area descriptions seem quite nice and informative. It's too bad that the map inaccuracies detract so much from what could be quite a resourceful guide.
If you get this book, I would confirm the campground locations by way of road map and/or Forest Service maps.
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