Review: Fitton Guard Station Cabin

  • $25.00 /night
  • (4.8)5 reviews
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Kirk Bode

2 years ago
5/5

Our family stayed here June 1st, 2019. It was a great experience. We took 2 ATV's from the Burro Creek trailhead South to the cabin. It was quite the experience to even get to the cabin!

That winter there were record snows in the mountains so there was still a lot of snow and ice covering parts of the trail. Also, there were many downed trees blocking the trail. However, we came prepared with a saw, axe, and we had winches on the ATV's that allowed us to cut and move several trees out of the way. When we encountered a large ice shelf covering the trail (that portion of trail travels through the stream) we had to break a path through the ice shelf to get our ATV's through. I spent a considerable amount of time on this. After getting through, we were on a muddy trail the rest of the way to the cabin. We were the first motorized vehicles to get to the cabin that year which made it a little exciting.

The cabin is old and rustic but it has quite a few supplies. We had brought our own way of heating up water for camp meals, but we could have used the wood burning stove. Our family of 4 fit perfectly inside and each had a separate bunk to sleep on. There is a fire ring outside and a pit toilet.

Overall, it was one of my favorite memories yet as a trip in Colorado due to how hard we had to work just to get there. The views are amazing, the ATV trail is fun and the cabin fit our style of "roughing it" perfectly. We'll be back!

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