{"id":2780,"date":"2024-03-01T10:51:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T10:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2024-04-09T15:25:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T15:25:32","slug":"sand-gulch-campground-reopens-after-successful-expansion-in-canon-city-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/sand-gulch-campground-reopens-after-successful-expansion-in-canon-city-co\/","title":{"rendered":"Sand Gulch Campground Reopens After Successful Expansion in Ca\u00f1on City, CO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.recreation.gov\/public\/2024\/02\/26\/22\/32\/261780_bf91bf61-341f-479e-a50c-81d2ad0e62c5_700.jpg\" alt=\"Sand Gulch Campground, Shelf Road Sites - Recreation.gov\" width=\"555\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The Royal Gorge Field Office announced that it will reopen its Sand Gulch campground on March 1, having finished a project to increase available sites and improve the visitor experience.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The Shelf Road rock climbing area, of which the Sand Gulch campground is a part, has become very popular, attracting about 50% more visitors since reporting began in 2000, according to the Bureau of Land Management.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The Shelf Road area provides outstanding recreation experiences,\u201d said Kalem Lenard, Royal Gorge Field Office assistant field manager. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to be able to accommodate the growth and interest in this area while protecting resources and caring for the area.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The campground expansion has added twice the number of available sites, additional picnic tables, and fire rings, quadrupled on-site parking, and placed four new vault toilets. The nearby Bank campground had a similar expansion in 2019, bringing the total invested by the BLM to over $1 million.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox21news.com\/news\/local\/canon-city-campground-reopens-after-successful-expansion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Source<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Gorge Field Office announced that it will reopen its Sand Gulch campground on March 1, having finished a project to increase available sites and improve the visitor experience. The Shelf Road rock climbing area, of which the Sand Gulch campground is a part, has become very popular, attracting about 50% more visitors since reporting began in 2000, according to the Bureau of Land Management. \u201cThe Shelf Road area provides outstanding recreation experiences,\u201d said Kalem Lenard, Royal Gorge Field Office assistant field manager. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to be able to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2783,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions\/2783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}