Griffin RVing: Rifle Gap State Park Colorado

We left Estes Park at 10am Tuesday 9/28 on our way to Montrose, Colorado. We are going to stop along the way at Rifle Gap State Park in Rifle Colorado which is just West of Glenwood Springs. We arrived around 3:30pm. Rest Areas along I70 were few and far between and the few that we found were not setup for big motorhomes or big trucks. It would be nice if the state of Colorado posted this out on I70 and not when you get to the rest stop. We pulled over 3 times at a "rest stop" only to find that they were too small. We have traveled through a lot of states in the last 3 years and this is the first time we could not find a real rest stop. No wonder you see the truckers pulled off along the on ramps at several places along the way, there is just no place for them to stop other than the brake check areas.

West of the Eisenhower tunnel on I70, we saw a trucker about half way down the steep I70 downhill section with his brakes severely smoking. I hope he made it to the bottom. What a smell too, phew! Should have taken a picture of that but I was more concerned about getting around him and getting some distance between us. A lot of truckers were doing the same thing. I kind of expected the trucker to just stop in the right lane, it kind of looked like he was looking for a spot to pull off but there were not any in the immediate area. I am sure he was pretty anxious and had a lot of downhill to go.

Rifle Gap State Park is a relatively new park associated with a reservoir there, so like Chatfield, we see a lot of boats out and water skiing is still going on.