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From Frisco: From I-70 take Exit 203, Frisco/Breckenridge, and travel 4 miles on Highway 9 through the town of Frisco. Turn left on Swan Mountain Road and go about 3 miles to the Swan Mountain Recreation Area, the turn-off will be on your left. A dirt road leads to the campground.From SilverthorneFrom I-70 take Exit 205, Silverthorne/Dillon. Travel 4 miles east on HWY 6 through the town of Dillon. Turn right on Swan Mountain road and drive 2 miles to Swan Mountain Recreation Area which will be on your right. A dirt road leads to the campground.
This is the loudest campground I've ever stayed in. I expect that when disperse camping near others, but not in a campground like this. I'm guessing it was just the timing, but we had one large group next to us with several tents and a party tent with party lights. They played music and talked loudly well into the night the two nights we overlapped, so I can say there are no quiet hours enforced here. There was another group the previous two nights playing music loudly all day, but they turned it off around 10. If but for the noise level, I would rate this 5 star and it's only because of the amazing scenery that I am rating 4 star. However, knowing the quiet hours are not a thing here, I'm not sure I'd camp here again.
One thing I didn't realize is that you have to pay extra for a 2nd vehicle in addition to what you pay on rec.gov when you reserve your spot. I somehow missed this when making my reservation, so I thought I'd mention it here. If you have a second (or I guess more since the loud group had a few cars) you will have to pay the camp host for a parking pass.
The views are spectacular. It's a mix of small pines to some scattered older pines. Amazing views of the mountains from many sites. Some sites are smaller/more condensed than others, but for the most part many are somewhat private. The bathrooms were nice and clean. The camp host was nice and friendly. The walk down to the water is steep and beautiful. There are 5 loops in this large campground, and it's simple to navigate. It is a nice compact dirt road in the campground with about a .5 mile washboardish dirt road into the campground.
Cell service: At&t and Verizon were both decent at our campsite.
Very clean and well kept. Some unconsider camper decided to take our reserved spot, but the park keepers were very kind and even though they couldn't find the person in out spot, she did us one better and set us up on a site with water view that took our breath away and made our trip 100 times better. She was so kind and had such an amazing positive vibe we forgot about the issue in a hot minute. Bathrooms are super clean, no trash anywhere. Overall an amazing experience
Campsite B32 was big and level. 30’ travel trailer fit in. Potable water available. Vault toilets were as clean as they could be ;-). Be mindful how to get to the campground. If you come from the south through Frisco you have to go up and down a steep paved road. More gentle access is
coming from the north. Gravel road was acceptable with low speed. T-Mobile and Verizon had both strong signals and bandwidth. Panorama and proximity to lake and Frisco was outstanding.
