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Dumont, Colorado: Located at 7,933 feet, Dumont is an unincorporated community positioned close to Interstate 70 and Clear Creek. There aren't truly any industrial services around and most people go by it via the highway.
There is a Dumont Post Office running around with a postal code of 80436. The community resides in Clear Creek Area next to Clear Creek. It comprises a 3rd of the Downieville-Lawson-Dumont census-designated location (CDP). It was named after a regional mine driver, John M. Dumont.
Key Attractions
Lawson Adventure Park & Hotel-- This visitor attraction boasts close-by or on-site accessibility to a myriad of hill activities. They assist river rafting trips down Clear Creek, zip cellular lining tours, disc golf, treking, playing in their Zorb, and also on. If you need to glamp it up, they have yurts as well as cabins for nighttime leasings.
Leisure
Review the Outdoor Camping near Empire, around Jones Pass.
Camping near Georgetown and Idaho Springs, by Guanella Pass as well as Mt. Evans
Idaho Springs and Georgetown are a number of the most available hill towns from the Denver Metro. Both are usually ignored for nearby Summit Area, but these communities of Clear Creek Region offer an entrance to some incredible treasures in the surrounding wild, as well as even in town.
A lot of the camping sites reside within the Arapaho National park, taken care of by the USFS. They are typically seasonal, open during the normal Colorado summer from late Might to September. Camping is easy to gain access to from Georgetown and also Idaho springtimes, with a chance to find two fantastic fourteeners: Mount Evans and also Mount Bierstadt. Explore the open airs from Clear Creek County, residence to some legendary stretches of whitewater rafting on Clear Creek.
Clear Lake Camping Site
A small rustic campground embeded in a large aspen grove at the base of Mt. Bierstadt. This camping site is preferred with fishermen seeking a range of angling venues in stream, fish pond, as well as lake fishing for brown, brook, fierce, as well as rainbow trout.
Guanelle Pass Camping Area
A sprawling 1.5 million acres of forest as well as meadows await the visitor to this preferred camping area. Set at 10,800 feet campers are often awakened to new-fallen snow, also in late summer season.
Closest community: Georgetown (9mi).
Specs: 18 websites, 11 Motor Home,