Went to Dorchester for 20 straight yrs with my family. We stared out at North Bank campground, moved to One Mile and Spring Creek and Rosy Lane and a few others as the crowds kept forcing us father and father away. We finally found Dorchester. Sits at about 10,000ft so altitude affects u. But it's quiet, usually not full during the week, u can hear and see Upper Taylor River from camp and is only a short walk. There is clean, cold, drinkable well water as well as 2 outhouses I believe.
Ur a relatively short drive farther down the rd to Bowman and then a little further still, the rd dead ends into A GORGEOUS pocket of bowled mountains and looking back diem where u just came from is A GORGEOUS valley with amazing colors and nicely contrasting landscape! There is A GNARLY 4x4only rd, that takes u up, up, up to a pass where u can see both Aspen AND Crested Butte and even 4x4 down into one of the other, I believe. Not 100% on driving down into either. Might just be Crested Butte.
It's just an AMAZING, quiet, safe place. The stars are unbelievable. The air is indescribable and the views are life altering and permanent.
I spent every summer for 20+ yrs straight up in this area. It's one of my top 3 places in the world I've been. And an honest contributing factor to my depression as I get older (I'm 42 now) is, that the glue that held these little family reunions in the mountains together, my gma, is 97 now and we stopped going around 10 or 12 yrs ago bc she just couldn't do it. And none of my other 5 aunts/uncles kept up the tradition, so its no more. Such an positive and hugely impactful place and time in my life, for it to just stop, has been very difficult to handle.
I love that place so much. I miss that place like I miss home when I'm away. Some day, when I'm healthy enough to work what I need to, and am able to get a car again, the first place I'm going, is Dorchester...