Eleven Mile Lake State Park is one of those incredible post card type places. The lake itself is created by a dammed stream and a canyon. The feat of engineering to build this dam was a marvel considering the years it was constructed. The lake has an eerie history of towns that were wiped out in creating this that now reside at the bottom of the lake. The reason it was dammed was to provide water to Denver and other municipalities.

The Campgrounds: 325 campsites in nine separate campgrounds scattered around the lake. From basic and walk in sites to electric or lakeshore sites, there is something for every camping style.

Rocky Ridge Campground loop has the only electric sites in the state park, and not each site has electric.

Stoll Mountain, Cross Creek, Lazy Boy, Rocking Chair, Howbert Point, and Witcher's Cove Campgrounds are lakeside campgrounds that experience more of the weather and do not have any electrical hookups.

There are 14 Back country sites that are more secluded in the wooded peninsula.

They have Dry Dumpstations and water stations to fill water as well. We used our water bladder to bring water to the RV.

Coin-Operated Showers - Showers are open 23 hours a day, closing daily for cleaning between 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Flush Toilets- Flush toilets are available from May 1 through September 30 each year.

Laundry Facility

There is a lot of wildlife here and black bears so keep your trash contained and put it in the proper dumpsters.

Cellular: While we were here in 2018 we had T-Mobile and AT&T, neither worked well. We would drive into a nearby town to get service and check messages.

We enjoyed our time camping here a lot, it was nice to unplug and be disconnected from society. There were some occasional storms which were a little unnerving because we are fulltime RVers and try not to put our RV at too much risk. We have a weather radio and it was able to alert us when warnings came in. It was windy most of the days we were there (July), and still nice and chilly at night. During the day the highest it got up to was about 75 degrees.

This is at a higher elevation so if you are sensitive to higher altitudes, follow precautions for altitude sickness as needed.