If you were hoping to snag a last-minute camping reservation at a state park near Denver over the weekend, you had best start making alternate plans.
All campgrounds at state parks on the Front Range are at capacity this weekend, as are most of the parks statewide, Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesman Matt Robbins said Friday.
“The parks are still open. Our trails for hiking or biking or equestrian are still open and our beaches are still open, but it would be for day use only,” Robbins said. “Itap too late to camp.”
With U.S. , 665,000 Coloradans are expected to travel at least 50 miles from home over the long weekend, according to Nationwide, nearly 43 million Americans will travel this weekend, 84 percent of them by car, the highest Fourth of July travel volume on record.
Heading into the weekend, regular unleaded gasoline was averaging $2.267 a gallon in Colorado, down 40 cents from a year ago, according to .
The Colorado Department of Transportation was reporting heavy westbound traffic on Interstate 70 on Friday afternoon, with delays of up to 75 minutes between C-470 and the Eisenhower Tunnel.
upd – Heavy Traffic up to 75 min. extra travel time from Denver/C-470 to Eisenhower Tunnel,MM 259-215
— Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) (@ColoradoDOT)
The will be open this weekend as travelers head home from the mountains, CDOT spokeswoman Amy Ford said. Tolls on the express lane, which runs eastbound from Empire to Idaho Springs, will likely be in the if you have an ExpressToll transponder — nearly $15 if you don’t.
“We open them as the volume begins to build — you can expect them to be opening probably in the morning, 9 a.m., 10 a.m.,” Ford said.
