Father Dyer
Reviewed Jun. 8, 2017

Father Dyer Campground at Tourquise Lake, Leadville, CO

Memorial Day Weekend. Last minute decision to go booked one of only three sites left all gone the next day. We arrived on Friday afternoon to a weather forecast of extreme spring fluctuations. Ambivalent about how camping would be with the forecast to say the least. We had reserved site #5 which we realized as we pulled into the loop was mostly under water from snow melt and had a large berm of snow still sitting in the pull in. As we sat there trying to figure out how we were going to make this work we noticed the site across from it had a reservation for Strayer! Yup the wonderful camp hosts had seen the issue prior to our arrival and with the cancellation of someone less willing and adventurous than us the camp host proactively moved us into the most lovely and expansive camping site #6. It was love at first site er sight! The Hosts were around within moments to check on us and we're just lovely. The site was obviously well tended and there were no issues what so ever. The facilities (pit bathrooms) were impeccably clean. My husband commented and I concurred that they were the cleanest best smelling pit bathrooms we had ever seen. Of course we were there at the beginning of the season but obviously the hosts did a great job of keeping them clean over the entire 4 days we resided there. The only time we had any issue whatsoever was with a loud group next to us who showed up at 3am slamming car doors repeatedly and yelling to each other for 30 minutes. My husband had ear plugs so he slept thru it mostly but I didn't have any as I don't use them. Next night I did as a precaution and had zero problems πŸ™ŒπŸΌπŸ˜ƒ. This campground is one of many surrounding Tourquise Lake. It is less than two minutes from the lake via car and 10 mins at most from the town of Leadville, CO. The lake levels at the time that we went were still extremely low and required you to hike down quite a bit to get to the actual lake. However if was beautiful all in all and we had a wonderful time there even with getting snowed on and 21 degree temps on one day. The rest of the trips weather made up for it and we had fresh caught trout over the fire for lunch on Sunday. Doesn't get any better than that!

SiteReserved 5 but it was flooded ended up in 6 which was a very good site
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  • Fire at site 6
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  • Nasty weather on Saturday waiting for it to blow over. Headed down to lake afterwards.
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  • Review photo of Father Dyer by Sheryl S., June 8, 2017
  • Review photo of Father Dyer by Sheryl S., June 8, 2017
  • Review photo of Father Dyer by Sheryl S., June 8, 2017
  • Review photo of Father Dyer by Sheryl S., June 8, 2017
  • Review photo of Father Dyer by Sheryl S., June 8, 2017
  • Review photo of Father Dyer by Sheryl S., June 8, 2017
  • Review photo of Father Dyer by Sheryl S., June 8, 2017
  • Review photo of Father Dyer by Sheryl S., June 8, 2017
  • Review photo of Father Dyer by Sheryl S., June 8, 2017
  • Review photo of Father Dyer by Sheryl S., June 8, 2017