Blue Mesa Outpost — Hotel in Gunnison

I had a very special experience with who I believe to be the owner. I assume it’s him since he is in so many negative posts.||||To be clear we were not staying there, although we have stayed there a couple years ago. We had no issues then as it went well. ||||What happened was very unfortunate and rather disturbing. ||||My wife and I were trying another local campground. We decided to go out for a drive. We were talking about how it would be nice to stay at a smaller campground and not have so many people staying in such a close proximity to us. I mentioned we should go check out Blue Mesa Outpost, because they had only a few RV sites and it would be great if my wife, kids and I could do a Labor Day weekend trip. ||||We pulled up, I showed my wife they had just a few sites and how great it would be. I thought it would be cool to drive past the cabin we stayed in a couple years ago. So we drove around on the road that circles the cabins. We drove past the one we stayed in and then started to head out. We were probably about 60-70% through the road, meaning we had driven the majority of the distance of this short loop around the cabins. As we were driving a gentleman, assumed to be the owner (from previous posts read) had raced up in a golf cart and stopped in front of my truck almost hitting me. I tried to steer around him, but he pulled further in front of me, blocking me in. My first thought was what is going on. He got off his cart and walked up to my truck filming me with his cell phone. My next thought was what is this person doing? He then asked “what are you doing.” With much hostility in his voice. I stated I was coming out to look at the campground to stay during Labor Day weekend. He said something and walked off. I don’t remember what he said. He did say after, I should have stopped at the office. In all honesty, I did not see a sign that said to do so or a no trespassing sign. I said out loud, I would not stay there after the way he was treating us, so forget it, and said I had stayed there before and is this how he treats his previous customers. He was very upset at this point and asked me to leave. I said no problem, but then he would not move his golf cart out of the way. I got out of my truck and told him to move. He told me to back out, I said I couldn’t do that, I only wanted to go forward because I was closer to leaving go forward. He then walked towards me, I am not sure why. I told him, he was doing something illegal by not letting me leave. Then he said something about me being a smartass, then he got in his cart backed up and called me a “dumb ass” . I lost my patience at that point and told him something like come and get some if you want it. ||||I got back in my truck and just as slowly as I did when I was driving through the campground, I quietly left, with him following me, still videotaping, escorting me to the property line. At no time, did I say anything or act irrational, as he should have videotape of.||||I am sure his response will be to this review, this is my fault or that I was problematic. At first, neither is true, after all he has the video to prove it. I did get upset after a short time, which I regret. When someone comes at you with an accusatory attitude, poor conversation skills and is completely rude, disrespectful, it sometimes is hard to stay calm.||||I have traveled a lot, done this same thing many times at other public places, ie. hotels, campgrounds, stores. You check places out, that’s what people do. Nobody threatens you and records you for doing it. Blue Mesa Outpost, to my knowledge is not a club you must belong to or you must have some sort of special approval to check it out. ||||In most cases a simple “how can I help you” would suffice. Then a regular conversation would ensue and that’s it. I don’t think he likes it that way. ||||Many posts talk about him video taping people and calling the police many times. It’s funny, I don’t see these remarks on any of the other campground sites with this comments as I do with this one. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the reviews are consistent in regards to this gentleman. All I hope is that he gets the mental help he needs and changes his ways, his abusive personality is only going to cause his business to go in one...

I am not a disgruntled guest and I was not planning on giving a review about our stay at the Blue Mesa Outpost, because I understand that he is a relatively new owners with a lot to learn. However, after reading the owner’s discrediting, threatening and often untrue replies to others for their reviews and being in denial for any part that he contributed, I felt that I should write. First let me preface by saying that I was not involved in the conflict, however, I was there for the reunion. My husband and I were bystanders who observed this situation, but were not involved ourselves. I am writing this as fairly and as truthfully as I can. The situation began with a total misunderstanding. An elderly couple mid to late 70’s pulled into the Outpost after many hours of travel time pulling a 5th wheel on a very hot day. They did stop at the stop sign as instructed and she did walk all the way up the hill in the heat to the office. When she couldn’t find anyone, she walked back down the hill to the truck at the stop sign. It is true that they were a little ahead of the 3 check-in time. The couple talked about what to do for a while at the stop sign while sitting in the truck waiting and decided that since no one was around, it was hot, they were blocking the driveway, and the space that they had paid for was empty, they would proceed on to their space, thinking that it wouldn’t be a problem. However, it turned out to be a big problem with the owner in which he continued to escalated to the point of no return. I believe he could benefit by taking a course in Reasonable Conflict Resolution, to learn that assumptions backed by a disrespectful, demanding attitude and tone of voice never calms a situation, rather it just causes every misunderstanding to escalate out of control, which is exactly what happened and then things went downhill from there. This situation absolutely could have been avoided had he showed a little respect, and remained calm. Up to that point, he was sociable and friendly, including having a beer or so with some of the campers etc. I hope that the owner’s reply to me isn’t like their others, in an attempt to discredit me as seems to be their mode of operation whenever anyone gives a bad review. I only write this hoping that he will own up to the fact that if he had handled the situation calmly, and with respect rather than unnecessarily escalating the situation, the outcome and the reviews would be totally different for everyone. Your replies blaming everyone else and including untrue statements based on your assumptions to make your actions seem acceptable is not helping. It will catch up to you over time. You have a beautiful place and could have all 5’s on your reviews if you take some steps to improve your...

Do not do business with this campground! There are several other places to choose from and by far better customer experience. The host was extremely rude to my wife and to me. We brought a child’s bow and arrow set to keep our kids occupied (just to paint the picture a little bit, the arrows were dull on purpose, we had a soft backstop, and the bow itself was weak). The host asked my wife to cease all kid activities with the bow and to put it up. She complied and did not argue. During this time, she was cleaning up our camp living space until our son returned so she would have him put it up. Minutes later (not exaggerating), the host drove by again and was aggravated that the bow and arrows set was not put up. He was extremely rude to my wife and told her to pick it up right away. At this point, I was in my tent resting but could hear everything going on. I immediately stepped out of the tent and told him I would take care of it. He then went off on a rant about how unsafe it was and how he was an ex-police officer and he has seen people killed with far less. I complied with his request and agreed that it was unsafe, but he kept pushing his issue. At no point did I argue that it was unsafe but he kept badgering me to prove his point. Finally, I raised my voice to let him know that I agreed to pick up the child’s bow set, then he snapped at me and said that if he was a cop again, he would put me in cuffs for the way I responded to him. Then he went off saying that it was his private property and we are going to get kicked off for endangering the public and his house. At this point I didn’t say a word and picked up my son’s bow set and did not engage with him again. He then left and never returned to apologize to the way he spoke to me and my wife. Now realize where my son was shooting his bow was at a safe distance from anything. So we complied anyways to keep peace and maybe the host didn’t realize that it was a child’s bow. My wife and I have never been treated so horrible by a host. We would have left sooner but it was past midday and it was too late to find anything else. Do yourself a favor and DO NOT DO BUSINESS with...