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From Delta, take Colorado Highway 92 east to Hotchkiss. Stay right on 92 where it intersects Colorado Highway 133 and drive 10 miles to Crawford. The park is one mile south of town.
Just so-so there are a couple of reasons; 1) a lady who said she is a camp host (not very credible) seems like she doesn't want us to be camping here and says "are you surely camping here?". But then she asked me if I have a state park pass even though she can see my pass is stuck to my windshield. After her visit, a man visited us to check my reservation and the park pass again but he has a device to check all my information (seems like he is a real camp host). 2) Water level is too low so the view from this campground is not as good as other reviewers who visited the last couple of years said. 3) all facilities and camping sites still need cleaning and maintenance. So dirty and rusty since there are tons of animals' excrement covering the campgrounds.
Not anything like what the website depicts. We did a lot of research to find a place to camp on water. The reservoir is so low, the water is now 2/3 mile from the campground. Drought is understandable, but don’t show the water right next to the campground if it isn’t. It hasn’t been for years, trees are growing where the map shows water.
We paid the camp ground fee of $32 a night for multiple nights, specified RV + 1 vehicle, only to be told upon arrival that both the RV and car need to pay an additional parking fee on top of camp rates. Why would you not just mention that during online checkout or add it to the rate or something?
Sign said “swim beach closed.” Also no prior notice.
We drove a long way to be very disappointed and left after the first night. Nothing but a loss of $150.
It’s understandable when nature changes plans, but be honest and up front in the website so people can make informed decisions. The camp site were not terrible. They were very close to neighbors but clean and had water and electric. If the web site hadn’t bold faced lied about the reservoir situation I wouldn’t have been so upset.
We visited in 2020 over the Labor Day weekend and although there was a lot of smoke in the air from wildfires, and the lake was extremely low, it was still great. We were schedule for two nights but an early season snow storm had us bailing out after the first night so we could get home. It is remote enough to get away from everything but close enough to the towns to make them easily accessible. We've already booked a site for this summer to try it again.
Google Maps says dump station closed. It is open seasonally and open now. Wonderful views. Clean and well maintained. Knowledge, friendly staff and rangers. Iron Creek is power and water and Clear Fork is full hookups. Mixed back in and pull through spaces.
Great state campground right on the lake. Our site borders the lake with great views of the lake and surrounding mountains. The sites have power and water but no sewer hook ups but there is a dump station on site that you can use.
