Lake Hasty Campground, near McClave, Colorado, is a solid spot for those looking to enjoy the great outdoors with a few comforts. The campground features spacious sites with plenty of shade, making it a comfortable place to set up camp, especially during warmer months.

You’ll find clean facilities, including showers and restrooms, which are essential after a day of exploring. Many visitors have noted the availability of electric hookups and drinking water, making it easier to enjoy your stay without sacrificing too much convenience. One camper mentioned, “Our site was clean and had great shade,” which sums up the vibe here pretty well.

For those who like to get out and about, there are some nice walking and biking trails nearby, plus a frisbee golf course for a bit of fun. The campground is also close to the John Martin Reservoir, perfect for fishing or boating. Just keep in mind that it can get busy on weekends, especially with boaters and fishers around.

While some campers have pointed out that the bathrooms could use a little more attention, the overall atmosphere is friendly and welcoming. Whether you’re passing through or planning a longer stay, Lake Hasty Campground offers a nice blend of relaxation and outdoor activities.

This recreation area is part of John Martin Reservoir

Lake Hasty Campground — John Martin Reservoir State Park

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Hasty

The Best Camping Near Hasty, Colorado

Nice campground. Nice equipment for kids to play

Nice

nice large sites clean and friendly helpful people

the place to go 

This is the place you want to be!  Campsites are nicely spaced and mostly level!  I’d estimate that 80% have really nice shade trees. Electric provided with water nearby but I understand it’s not worth drinking but suitable for showering etc.  I always carry drinking water anyway!

If you like Windy and Hot....

we got a site right on the lake and it was beautiful!  It was a windy day so despIte the heat It was pleasant.  swam in the beach area which was small but clean with cold water. 

bathrooms were clean and new with nice pay showers. I would recommend driving up into the dam and walking on it. very cool! 

when the sun went down the stargazing was incredible! saw at least 40 satellites and several shooting stars. saw a calm gray rat snake looking for food and had nests of baby birds in the trees overhead. loved this place!

Dam good stargazing!

This place offers a swim beach, fishing on the lake and boating and fishing at John Martin Resivour. There are also bathrooms and showers on site for a small cost. I love this place.

Fishing and boating 

Great lakeside site... large site with partial shade.

Swim beach

Clean restrooms, laundry and showers

very quiet

Lake Hasty

Beautiful and great fishing too! bird watching is also awesome!

Such a beautiful campground!  Trees in Colorado!

We stayed here twice last Summer on our cross country adventure. Nice shady spots and great bike riding opportunities.

Nice stop over for cross country travelers.

Initially made reservations at the point campground. There is NO shade. Cancelled and remade for Lake Hasty campground. Had a good time. Visited in spring, but it was HOT!! Very glad to have had the shade. Lots of owls. Lots of birds to watch. Bathrooms were a bit of a walk, but we were right next to the playground. Did some fishing, had a muskrat steal our fish. Lots of rattlesnakes. Also learned that rattlesnakes can swim. Easy drive to Bent's Old Fort which was great. Overall, nice but factor in weather when making reservations. 

Make sure you check your camp site on a map! 

I wish I could give this place negative stars. 😑 First and foremost you cannot arrive after hours without a reservation and by creating an account. Then upon paying for your site, which only has electric by the way, you also have to purchase a $9 parking pass. We had to purchase one for our RV AND one for our car. Camp hosts are nonexistent. The facilities were FILTHY ! One shower open that YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR. $1 in quarters got me 2 mins and upon shooting out freezing water without warning , it took over a minute to get warm so then I had under 60 seconds to do a quick wash. Mind you- I typically boon-dock and off grid camp but figured I would splurge and hook up for the night ( traveling across country) and use a facilities shower. The floor was filthy and there were excrements left not only in the toilet but also on the seat. I’m just really bummed out.. would not recommend. On the plus side, I had a gorgeous balled Eagle fly right over head that left me in awe.  And the sunrise was very beautiful. 

-1 stars 

Be sure to check the map and terrain to pick your site. Point has no shade, but Lake Hasty has shade and trees. Nice easy walk to the dam. Dumpsters, toilets, water pumps present. Campsite was $18 and park fee was $9. 

Excellent campsite

We loved staying here, but there were certainly much better camp sites with trees and views. We booked an electric site on the east side of the dam and it was one with a lake view but had zero trees around. We had never been there prior so we know better now which spot we would book. The spots closest to the damn have zero trees and you're out in the open. My only complaint is we called the park to ensure that our friend with a roof top tent could share our spot, and we were told no since the tent is "attached" to the truck it is considered a "camper". So our friend had to cancel his trip since the park was sold out. Come the weekend, and we saw countless violations to this said park rule. One campsite had 5 vehicles, 8 tents and we counted at least 18 plus campers! The park rangers just drove on by. The other issue was we paid the reservation fee and pulled our travel trailer in. They still charged us an additional $9/day fee for our truck...that pulled the trailer. I have not heard of that before so it was a bit of a surprise. Cell phone service is a bit spotty, so prepare to be off-grid. The views are gorgeous and it is very peaceful there at night. The closest town to get anything you might have forgotten is about a 30 minute round trip drive.

Nice place to stay...if you know which spots to book!

Lake Hasty Campground is well maintained and offers those subtle necessities without the hassle of a huge expense. 

Most enjoyable camping trip yet. 

Easy in and out. Big pull through sites. Clean. Year round water/sewer/electric.
Cell coverage one bar for Verizon and one to two bars AT&amp;T

Big Rig Friendly and Clean 

We stayed at this campground on a weekend sightseeing trip. It is an hour away from Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site (and another 2 hours east one would arrive at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site).

  

This is your basic State Park Reservoir camping site. You will need a reservation and either an annual park pass or daily parking fee for your vehicles. There is large reservoir for boating and fishing. Swimming is allowed seasonally, but not during our stay. There was a few playgrounds for young kids near Hasty campground and a geocache nearby (watch out for cacti for the small children). Lots of space for the kids to run, play and ride bikes.

  

A lot of turkey vultures and a skunk were spotted from our campground. Very windy in a tent during our late April stay.  We had lunch at a picnic spot, but we were glad it was 70 degree April day because there was no shade at there.

Reservoir camping in Eastern Colorado

Very nice campground, well-maintained. The grass was cut very short, sandy soil. Some sites are right on the water most sites have a cover on the picnic table. Spacious and spread out for the most part. Friendly park ranger in the visitors center. The visitor center also has a few interesting displays. In very late November there are only a few other campers here. I was here on a Saturday and Sunday and saw only a very few day users. Weather was nice with freezing temps at night and 60s during the day. I finally got away from all those flies in Kansas. I would rank this campground with five stars if it just were not so darn expensive. Even at these prices they have removed almost all of the dumpsters. The only dumpster I saw in the park was overflowing. There were hundreds if not thousands of geese on the smaller house the lake below the dam.  There is a huge reservoir on the other side if the dam, I did not explore that this trip.

John Martin SP and Hasty CG

It's hard to give this place the credit it deserves when you come off of a mountain over 10,000 feet!!!  Sites 1-20 something are up next to the dam and levee.  Site 9 is the farthest from the road that separates this section from the  bigger portion of the campground.  There is only electricity at these sites with community water.  There are restrooms (that we didn't use) and garbage containers scattered throughout.  This park's saving grace is the lake and the abundant wildlife... mostly birds, but beaver and skunks were seen!  Roads are paved, sites are rock with little cabana-type shelters, a picnic table and fire ring.  Sites 1-20 something have scattered small trees... site 9 probably had the largest... a young cottonwood. The largest section of Hasty campsites  are well treed, some at water's edge.  If you're going to stay longer than 1 night, especially during the summer, try to reserve in the big section with trees!  It's a popular, year-round park with fishing on Hasty Lake and boating on the reservoir side!  

Sleeping by the Dam

The campground was uncrowded when we stayed.  It was quiet.  The small Lake Hasty was a great spot for a short canoe trip.  Most people waved at others in the campground but with Covid there was less interaction with others than in the past.  It is possible to take a walk around Lake Hasty.  The restrooms were spotless.  There was good cell service.

Great relaxing campground

We were traveling cross country &amp; really just needed a place to settle in for the night . We decided on this campground based openings. There are 2 sides to this campground- 1 more on the water , with more trees between sites &amp; the other in what’s basically an open field . We stayed on the open side. While I usually wouldn’t choose such little privacy , we were pleasantly surprised! The sites are really spread out &amp; there was only a small handful of folks , so no one was anywhere near us. It was quiet ,  dry neat &amp; there was a central water source if needed. The site did have electricity. It was very dark at night but it made for amazing star gazing ! This campground is definitely off the beaten path.  It fit the bill for the night but I’m not sure what else is around it for entertainment value. It’s supposed to be a great place if you fish &amp; we were told there many opportunities to see eagles but more on the reservoir side. 

A quick respite 

Stayed in September 2022, stopped in on the way home to KS. Unfortunately lake down to 4% at present so don’t plan on fishing swimming. They are going to be working on the dam. Campsite level &amp; nice on Hasty lake side of Dam. Shower are pay. Probably a nice place when the lake is full. 

Stop over

Stayed 3 days in October. Site's are in prairie among wooded river bottom. Shade is abundant.  Reservations required, easy to obtain at gate. Site's electric only. Water at hydrants. Good facilities,shower laundry and restrooms. Plenty of activities for exploring and fishing.  T-mobile cell was spotty as well as radio reception. Streaming is possible but not dependable.  Our campsite had an issue with flies. Not a deal killer but have your repellant handy.

High Plains stop over

Spent the night in early March 2023 on our way back to Colorado from picking up our new Casita travel trailer in Texas. Only four sites were occupied on the evening that we stayed there. The trees were leafless and the grass was that lovely winter brown color, but we loved the solitude and peacefulness of a nearly empty campground.

Clean and Well Maintained Campground

We have a 36 ft Class A with a Cherokee Trailhawk tow and stayed in site 55 for 2 days in mid June. The pull-through sites are very roomy, lots of open space and fairly level. This is a fairly large CG and there were only a few other campers here mid-week. The road leading to the CG is a little bumpy, but not too bad. The gravel roads within the CG are filled with fairly significant pot holes that must be maneuvered around and there are a few low branches that need to be trimmed. The men’s showers were rust stained, but otherwise fairly clean, but my wife said there was hair on the floor and walls of the women’s showers. The showers are coin operated and mine was amply hot, but the water heater kept shutting off every 45 seconds or so. Turning the faucet off and back to hot would start it again. My wife said hers didn’t shut off, but only got warm. Water spigots available around the CG, but the one nearest us was out of service. AT&amp;T coverage was decent, with 1-2 Bars of LTE service and speeds up to about 3.5 MB/s. We had a clear view of the southern and northern sky, so we were able to get DISH coverage on all three western satellites at our site and Starlink had speed up to 5 MB/s.

Nice State Park CG just below the John Martin Reservoir Dam

Called in a rainstorm looking for a site just for the night. They give no discount and also charge a fee just to drive into your site if your out of state. They were far from full. Why not make revenues and give a discount under these conditions. GS Agent sounded haughty regarding questioning the fees. Ppl like to travel but don’t always have deep pockets like the huge RV to spend esp. when just passing thru being an out of stater

Suppose to be an ACE CG

I come here most springs for bird migration -- it's fantastic to see the variety of birds that move through this campground. Mature trees provide shade to a large portion of the campground, while another portion is in full sun (with picnic table shades). Popular for weekend boaters and fishers, bathrooms don't stay very clean. Right on a small lake popular for small wakeless craft, includes a swim beach. Part of the State Park system, so expect to pay an entrance fee if you don't have your annual pass.

Popular campground with shade and lots of birds

Well spaced sites with many trees and Lake Hasty. Bents Fort and Sand Creek Monument in area. Clean showers and rest rooms. Water is available,  but no hookups.

Large sites with shade.

Lots of sites, electric service and water from a tap close. A few nice places to walk and from the back of a bike, plenty of places to ride and explore. Also has a small hike and a frisbee golf course. 

Standard campsite

After reserving our campsite, we reached the campground and located spot #61, which was quite distant from the water and restroom facilities. Wanting a better location, we visited the office and the attendant kindly relocated us to waterfront site #35, boasting shaded areas and scenic water views with diverse birdlife. However, upon inspecting the restroom, we were dismayed by the abundance of mold and bugs, making it unsuitable for use. Also bring quarters if you want to take a shower. 

Nice campground 

We spent one night here while passing through.  We had a reservation in advance, arrived just before they closed, zero issues getting checked in.  The place was strangely empty, only a handful of sites taken.  Our site was clean and had great shade.  Facilities were clean and functional.  Zero complaints.

Large sites with plenty of shade

Quite a bit overpriced for what you get. I made a reservation online totaling $30.71, to arrive and having to pay an additional $10 for a Colorado State Park Daily Pass. On top of that, the showers are coin-operated. As someone arriving in the evening and just traveling through to leave in the morning, $45 seems a bit much for a really small state park... I was okay with the $29 advertised on the website, but wasn't aware the fees were going to keep on adding up after arrival. Anyway, there's a quarter machine in the bathrooms if you need it... and the showers were nice and clean. Good cell service. Quiet, except for the birds beginning their chirping at 4:15AM (some of them are not good singers...) Probably wouldn't stay here again because I do think it's a bit overpriced for what you get.

John Martin Reservoir State Park - Lake Hasty Campground

John Martin Reservoir is huge and is a big draw for fishermen and boaters. There is some camping above the dam which is very basic and the main campground is located on Hasty Lake in a stand of Cottonwood trees. As you enter the Hasty location there is a dump station ahead on the left just after the turn into the campground. The first camping sites are on the right and shade is limited to metal pergolas. Continuing into the park you pass the bathroom with laundry and showers and take any of several loops to access your campsite. These are mainly under a dense cottonwood canopy. There are a few sites right on the shoreline of Hasty lake, which are quite popular and have great views across the small lake.

  

There is cellphone service, I don't recall if there is wood for sale, but campers did have fires. Sites have fire rings picnic tables. If you drive out of the park past the dump station and follow the road you arrive at a swimming beach and kayak launch area. The area is home to many birds including hawks, herons, and pelicans.

Popular state park in SE Colorado

Love my site. It is nice and shady and right on the lake. Nice big gravel sites. Easy access.

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