Girls Trip 2.0 | Backpacking Colorado Bend State Park

Weekend in Colorado Bend State Park 3 Days and 2 nights of backpacking, camping, swimming and good friends. . Day 1: Drove 4 hours to the beautiful Colorado Bend State park. We checked out the gift shop and met the very helpful a friendly ranger, then headed to the trail head. We parked at the Cedar Chopper trail head parking lot and set off down the Lemons Ridge Pass trail. We took that to the River trail then to our camp site... well as you can see in the video night 1 was a bit of a cluster ( If you are going to hammock camp choose site 3 or 8 in the River primitive camping area). which totaled out to about 4miles. . Day 2: Woke up... COFFEE. then set off towards the falls. we took the River trail to Old Gorman Road trail then that to the Gorman Falls trail. the hike down to the falls isn't the earliest but oh my gosh it's worth it!!! Then we hiked back up and took Old Gorman Road tail then went east on Cedar Chopper trail back to the car. at the car we refilled our waters ditched some dirty clothes and enjoyed the A/C while driving back down to headquarters to check into our site for the night and destroy some ice cream sandwiches. We then drove back up the long road towards the entrance to the Windmill trail head were we parked and headed to the primitive camping area. We had site 1 which was the perfect site! tucked away under large outstretched branches we set up camp, made dinner and relax for the night. Before bed I glanced up and noticed the most star filled sky I had ever seen! If you are going to stay in the Windmill back country are then I highly recommend staying on a night with a new moon! No surprise the wind kicked up and was a bit crazy but we survived. . Day 3: Woke up and did NOT want to leave not only was WM1 a beautiful site all the trails and campsites are well maintained and clean. Reluctantly we made coffee, had a small snack (we had big plans for pizza on the way home so we were saving room.) and headed the mile back to the car. . . Music . Hold on by CAAMP    • Caamp - Hold On (Official Music Video)   . When I grow up by First aid Kid    • When I Grow Up   . Get up by RocknStand . Country Store by Redinoproduction . Beauty of nature by Ahoami