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We provide year-round access for camping and day use. Whether you’re interested in an overnight stay or just plan to visit during the day, we offer a wide variety of activities: from camping to fishing, swimming and canoeing, mountain biking, hiking, and more. In winter, activities also include ice fishing, cross-country skiing, and snowshoeing. Wellington Lake, one of our greatest attractions, is a privately-owned natural wilderness area. The 167-acre lake is managed as a trophy fishery with an emphasis on conservation. Just a short drive’s distance from Denver and Colorado Springs, we welcome all visitors looking for a relaxing mountain getaway in the great outdoors.
*Jefferson County is in a Stage 1 FIRE BAN.
**Due to extreme fire danger a Red Flag warning has been issued and NO CAMPFIRES are allowed in the park at this time.
Please call our office for any updates or questions on current conditions. 303-838-5496 *The Campground is OPEN year-round and reservations are made online. If you are looking for a same-day camping reservation, please call to book over the phone.
*Campground Reservations: Campsites may be reserved through the online booking portal as early as 3 months in advance of your check-in date at midnight. Example: If you want to check-in on August 10 and camp for 4 nights, you could book the entire stay as early as May 10 at 12:00 am.
*Guests may book earlier than 3 months via the early bird advanced booking process. *Advanced Bookings for the Summer of 2022 camping season began on November 30th, 2021 on our online booking engine. You can now book your favorite Summer site for Summer 2022 online!
Weekend Lakefront Sites have been booked at this time, but there is plenty of availability for lakefront spots on weekdays, and there are some great hillside and mountain road sites for weekends that are still open as well as a few group sites.
We like going here but now to get a spot people are allowed to pay double $$ 6 months out. The road from Bailey is still horrible as is the road around the lake. If you want, peace and quiet during the summer months, don’t camp here as you are right next to hundreds of people with their children and dogs. Biting flies in early September were very annoying!
This past weekend may be our last! We have been taking our family here for many, many years, typically on holiday weekends. After paying $382 for three nights (that’s correct $382 – for early bird lakefront!), the bathrooms had no toilet paper, were clearly not serviced at all, and the staff was.... well, we'll get there... I can't make this stuff up.
Starting around 11pm we had to deal with a drunken, disorderly camper screaming profanities and fighting with their partner in a very hostile tone for everyone to hear. This was followed up by a brief period of silence and then a 12am to 1 am guitar jam session (note: quiet time starts at 10pm). This incident woke up the entire surrounding camp sites, including our young children. After an hour of enduring the obnoxious behavior, I got dressed to go address the issue with the campers. My wife and I politely explained the campground rules and asked them to be quiet as they were incredibly loud. They proceeded to put the guitar away. It was quiet for about 20 minutes until the woman started screaming profanities at us and yelling "no one tells me what to do", "F-this, F-you”. This went on for about another hour until ~ 2am. We did not have good enough service to call the sheriff. In the morning the campers left very early, but their tent and equipment was still there. I went up to their site to get the site number to report them to the campground staff. Instead of a site number the sign read CAMP HOST! We reported them to the on-duty manager the following morning.
Our kids were up with the sun at 6:15 am and we got to spend the day absolutely exhausted because of someone else's selfish behavior. Wellington Lake used to be a special place to go because of it's beauty. Sad to say that you pay for five-star scenery and now very disappointing amenities.
Beautiful campsite and lake. We really enjoyed camping here. Our campsite was huge! We were able to tie up our two dogs and they had plenty of room to wander around. We also tied up two hammocks and there was plenty of shade which was amazing in the afternoon.
There are some things I wish I knew before we went. We had site 69 and it was quite far from any restrooms. The restrooms were probably the worst at any campground I’ve been to that costs as much as Crystal Mountain Rec. There is no running water to wash your hands either. We were quite far from the lake so one person would do drop off and drive the car back to the campsite and walk. This was fine but just good to know.
There is no potable water, just a hand pump for water that you can boil for cooking and for washing dishes. Thankfully the store does sell drinking water.
Also, there were four huge dumpsters that were stuffed full with trash. One of them had a little bit of room and it was hard to open because of how full it was.
You must wear life jackets on the lake, which is fine but an important detail!
The road to Bailey is long and very, very bumpy. Best to plan ahead and make sure you have everything so you don’t have to make any extra trips.
One of the rangers was a recent transplant from Minnesota and we were struck by how sweet and helpful she was!
We hope to return again soon!
Beautiful beautiful place. The $5 per person can add up quite fast but just for my husband and I it is great. Especially for a winter hike. While there were a few cars we never saw anyone on the trails for the 3-4 hours we were there.
