Enjoying Kit Carson, Colorado

Small towns. I like 'em, do you? Left Limon, CO where it was pretty chilly at about 5300 ft. elevation yesterday and couldn't resist stopping in Kit Carson, CO. Kit Carson is a little over 200 population. To survive in a small town I think the population has to be really resourceful because there isn't a lot of business to keep the doors open. Kit Carson provides some necessary services besides just camping. Services I found here are Laundromat, restaurant, motel, grocery market, liquor store, auto parts store, post office, bank with an ATM, and an automated gas station with fully automated pumps, including diesel, that is easy for even an RV to pull into, and a great little museum that is open during the summertime. Even just looking around the outside at the great historic depot building and old caboose was loads of fun...

Kathleen, I couldn't help but think of Michael when I was poking around this museum today!

Directly across the street from the museum is the Kit Carson Observation Tower and many interesting metal sculptures roundabout it. I didn't take a picture of it but here as a picture at this link: http://www.city-data.com/city/Kit-Carson-Colorado.html

Even the little main street is decorated for Christmas and sports charming old fashioned street lamps...

Part of the main street businesses that feature not only this food market, but a senior center, bank, liquor store, auto parts store, post office etc. I love old fashioned false front buildings like the one in the picture above.

This part of main street sports a hardware store, auto parts store, post office and the liquor store. There were also at least four churches in town, too.

This is the Camper Park RV park with full hookups where I have the entire place to myself. I love off season camping.

Joy and Whimsy parked at the Camper Park. I have Joy plugged in to keep her little diesel heart warm so she will start. While daytime temperatures yesterday and today were 50 and 61 it gets down to freezing or below at night. Elevation here is 4288 ft. That thousand foot drop sure makes a difference in temperatures.

Just in case it gets really cold I have the electric heat blankets that warm my holding tanks plugged in, too. I had these wonderful heat blankets installed at Jolley Rogers RV while in Cheyenne, WY where it got down to 20 below the week before.

Here are Whimsy's brand new Big Foot levelers at work. I sure enjoy having levelers. Takes so much of the work out of parking the RV and I can level the RV even when it is still attached to the truck as it is here. A wonderful place to walk is along the country road that runs just east of the grain elevator and treks south out in the country. Made for a terrific shirt sleeves weather walk today with the dogs.