Mueller State Park — Hotel in Woodland Park

I have been hearing about Mueller State Park for a number of years and how fabulous it is so we finally decided to go. So I should say we are experienced campers. Have been going 8+ times a summer for 15 years and have done everything from tent camping to our current 42ft fifth wheel and everything in between. We have camped all over Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming. We are in our mid 40’s and have tween/teen aged kids. My husband and I are both professionals and our oldest son is going to college next week. The reason I say all of that is because we are responsible, law abiding, high functioning adults. They other reason I say that is because we were treated like teenage, juvenile delinquents by the ego maniacal Park Rangers. Granted we had a large group. But if you have any amount of people and like to talk around a camp fire, or play music at any volume any time a day or have your kids ride bikes, play or act like kids in any way, DON’T GO HERE!! We were told 4 separate times over the course of 3 days that we were too loud. One time at 5pm. Now I understand that people go camping to enjoy peace and quiet. And we were never being extraordinarily loud. Adults should be about to sit around a campfire and talk. If you want true peace and quiet maybe go to a remote camping area in the middle of the woods. Mueller for being as beautiful as it is is very congested. Basically 1 road with all of the camping spots lined up next to each other. So unless you are totally silent, you are going to hear other campers. Also, “quiet hours” start at 10 pm (although the one day we were reprimanded for playing games outside at 5pm). And quiet hours at Mueller means you have to go to bed. Like you can’t have a fire or be outside. At all. We were threatened with citations and even having to pack up and leave the campground at 11 pm because we were sitting around the fire talking. Not to mention we got the scolding the likes of which I haven’t heard since I was a teenager. The Park Rangers were extremely rude, condescending and unreasonable. We have camped with as many as 50 people in every variety of campground and have never been treated the way we were at Mueller State Park. “Groups” are definitely not welcome and we were told that very directly. Even the first night there were literally 3 people sitting by the fire and we were told that was not allowed. So just beware if you visit here what you are signing up for. We will definitely...

My family and I recently camped at Mueller State park and I would like to provide feedback on our experience. My wife and I have been camping for our entire lives and love to be in the mountains to experience the peace and quiet and relax from our everyday lives. We had camped at Mueller State Park before and loved this campground. During our last visit, we camped for 3 nights. Our first night was fantastic and reminded us of our previous visit to the park. The only complaint would have been the number of ants crawling everywhere. They were unlike any other campsite I have seen but it is just part of nature so we put on bug spray and enjoyed ourselves. The last two nights is where things took a turn for the worst. We had new camp neighbors arrive consisting of six adults with no kids. Upon their arrival, they immediately started playing loud music which meant they had to raise their own voices so they could communicate with each other. The problem was that they used extremely foul language at a loud volume. Once they had their tents setup they then proceeded to start drinking alcohol and they never stopped until they departed two days later. The peace and quiet we came to the mountains to enjoy was gone. We reported the situation to the rangers and they dropped by to ask them to turn their music down which they did comply with for the first night. However, the next morning at 6:30 am the music started back up along with the drinking, foul language, pot smoking. We again reported it to the rangers but at this point we felt like the rangers were tired of hearing from us and their only solution was for us to pack up and move to a different campsite. We camp in a pop up camper so it is not a simple process to move an entire campsite. The rangers never returned to the neighbor’s campsite for the remainder of our stay. We were very disappointed in the way this was handled by the rangers. We feel like it would have been more appropriate to give the noisy campers a final warning or ask them to pack their stuff up to move. We ended up having to send our kids home with our adult daughter after one night and keep ourselves busy doing other things away from the campsite. Needless to say we will not be camping a Mueller State Park again. There are way too many other options in Colorado for camping to put up with this kind of behavior which belongs in a bar not...

07/31/2020 Absolutely beautiful park. Unfortunately can’t say great things about the staff. We decided to take a short trail (Wapiti Nature Trail #6) next to the visitor center. My wife is not able to walk long distances since she has medical issues. This loop says it is .8 miles. That’s perfect. The trail was very nicely laid out. Apparently the signage isn’t. I believe the post with the white numbers designate the tenth of a mile. After walking what appeared to be a half mile. We saw a orange sign with the number 6 leading further away from where we started and it lead down a hill. We knew this couldn’t be right because we were getting too far away from where we started. So we back tracked back to where we started. In the visitors center parking lot I saw a park ranger sitting in a truck. As I approached the truck 10 to 12 feet the ranger hollowed I can hear you. And I yelled to him I had a question on reading the trails and held up the map with the trails on it. And he yelled back he could see it. Wow! 10 to 12 feet and he can see the details on the map. I explained that I just needed to know how the trail markings are laid out. Like what the different colors on the sign post designate. He didn’t have a clue how to read the trail marker. I finally said we just back tracked out of the trail. He said yes. That’s what you need to do. Frustrated I decided to go into the visitor center and as a girl working there the same questions. Again she had no idea. I thought my questions were very basic that anybody working there would know. Nope! I was wrong. We still love the park and will be going back. We will just have to figured things out in our own or ask other visitors. Too bad for such a...