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Vanlife is booming in Colorado

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Dozens of Colorado companies that customize cargo vans into homes on wheels reporting brisk business as housing prices and rents climb alongside pandemic-fueled push for backcountry adventure.

GYPSUM — Darla Letourneau is ready for an adventure of a lifetime.

“This is the first time I’ve ever done anything like this by myself,” the 72-year-old Floridian said as she circled and studied her brand new Promaster van, custom converted by Dave & Matt Vans. 

Letourneau is planning to spend the next half a year traveling across the West. She spent months searching for the perfect campervan to carry her far and wide.

“This is my dream,” she said. “After this past year, I want this trip to restore my faith in humanity. I want to connect with people and have an adventure.”

Adventure-seeking roadtrippers like Letourneau are spiking Colorado’s booming van conversion industry. A few years ago, there were a handful of Colorado companies converting cargo vans — like Mercedes Sprinters and Dodge Ram Promasters — into adventure rigs. Today, there are dozens, most of them formed in the past two years. It’s a roaring industry, built largely around the go-anywhere, work-anywhere vanlife ethos that swept social media in recent years. And the vanlife phenomenon exploded last year as the pandemic sen more urbanites fleeing to the lonely hills. 

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