Come for the lake

The water here is amazing felt fresh after swimming in it! Campground is pretty basic not much shade at any spot and there’s pretty much no privacy

Vault toilets and I think there’s just two water spigots for the whole campground.

Good for a night or two

Great base camp to explore the surrounding areas (RMNP)m

Great central campsite to explore the surrounding areas

Signal: 1-2 Bars LTE Verizon

Water: potable and cold, located in front of bathrooms, looked like you could thread a hose on just not super securely.

Electricity: none at site (outlet in the bathroom if you need a quick charge though)

Bathrooms: cleaned daily and flush great!

Site: Fire pit (w/ integrated grill), bear locker, picnic table, and some sites had large tent pads. The parking spaces could fit a 20ft trailer easy. Almost no shade at any of the sites.

a lot of sites were reserved but there are a few first come first serve (FCFS) sites (#49 is a FCFS site and treated us well it had a little wooded hill behind the site with plenty of shady spots to hang a hammock.

Close to RMNP, but it is about an hour and a half beautiful scenic drive to bear lake, get your timed entry passes way in advanced or get there before 5 AM.

Shadow Mountain Lake Bike trail is awesome and runs along the lake almost the whole time with many openings in the thick forest for great views of the lake. Not heavily trafficked either, I was able to run it without running into any bikers. 6m round trip and trail starts just past the dam.