When we reached the town of Mancos, we found that our turnoff towards the state park was at the one and only stoplight in town. Imagine that! This small town was big enough to actually have a stoplight!

We only had five more miles to go to reach the state park and the campground. At about 6:30, we finally arrived at Mancos State Park.

We stopped at the entrance to the state park to pay the state park fee

then proceeded into the campground and picked out a campsite. We were the only ones there, so we had plenty of sites to choose from.

The campground is divided into two parts - the main campground and the west campground. The main campground is located at the bottom of the map, and the west campground is located at the top of the map. Why this is called the west campground and not the north campground, I'll never know.

The two campgrounds have a combined total of 33 sites. The main campground is further subdivided into two loops. The lower loop, containing sites 9 through 18, was closed off, so we only had 13 sites to choose from in the upper loop. We arbitrarily chose site 8 and pulled in.

Our first chore was to set up the tent. The main campground is all in trees. But we didn't have any trouble finding an open area to put the tent.

We were warned about bears in the area, and there were bear tracks in the clearing where we set up our tent.

Our next chore was to pay the camping fee and to take some pictures and get some video footage while we still had some daylight left. Next to our campsite on the road between sites 8 and 19, there was still a small amount of snow remaining.