Yankee Boy Basin

It is in the San Juan Mountains, protected within Uncompahgre National Forest.

The basin−valley is well renowned for its display of wildflowers during the spring bloom period, and for Twin Falls on Sneffels Creek.

The road starts a quarter mile south of Ouray, passes a DOT site, and winds its way up the canyon.

These encourage collecting dead-and-down firewood, though, which occasionally brings locals and people visiting other campgrounds.

Yankee Boy Basin is a good place to see native wildlife, including: deer, black bear, birds of prey, and other fauna of the southwestern Rocky Mountains region.