Colorado’s had a dry summer. Drought conditions have been the story on the news and in every rancher’s conversation for months. So it caught me off guard, walking the trail in Pike National Forest with my granddaughter Rose and our dog Domino one morning, to see the wildflowers still coming up — red, purple, yellow, pink, scattered right along the path like the ground hadn’t gotten the memo.
Rose noticed before I did. She’s turned it into a routine now: every morning we walk, she picks a small bouquet, and she brings it home for her grandmother, Wendy. It’s become one of those unspoken family rituals — the kind nobody planned, that just happened because a six-year-old decided flowers were important and Wendy’s face lit up the first time she got some.
This is one of the small, quiet advantages of where Monument Glamping sits. We’re private property, but we’re also minutes from real public forest — Pike National Forest, right down the road. Guests staying in our safari tents or container homes aren’t just getting a hot tub and a fire pit (though they’re getting those too). They’re getting proximity to actual Colorado wilderness, the kind where wildflowers push through dry ground because that’s what they do here.
It’s easy to think of a drought year as a quiet year for nature. It isn’t. The land adapts, and if you walk it — really walk it, slowly, with a kid who stops every ten feet — you see that. Rose sees it every morning. She doesn’t know she’s teaching me anything. But she is.
If you’re looking for a place where mornings look like this — creek, trail, forest, quiet, no rush — Monument Glamping is private-property glamping in Monument, Colorado, built for exactly that kind of stay. Just show up. Book direct at MonumentGlamping.com.
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