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“My sister told me she'd been to the San Luis Valley and seen a presentation about people living off-grid, on bare bones minimum,” Ted Conover said. “People were parking their RVs on the prairie, and then adding a plywood addition, and getting water from a spring.”
Others live in old school buses, pallet homes, motor homes or shacks.
When winter comes, unable to survive the frigid negative temperatures in tents and campers, those who can afford gas often make their way to the nearest shelter, over an hour away in Alamosa, for a warm place to sleep.
“I had no idea people were really living like this in Colorado,” Conover said. “It made me feel a little bit ignorant, because I think this happens in several parts of the state.”
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