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2026 Season availability
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Reviews (935)
What Guests Are Saying
Dowdy Lake offers a beautiful campground with well-maintained sites and restrooms, stunning scenery, and abundant wildlife, making it a favorite spot for campers. Many visitors appreciate the peaceful atmosphere, clean facilities, and helpful camp hosts. While some minor issues, like noise from nearby roads and bright restroom lights, were noted, overall experiences have been positive, with enjoyable outdoor activities and a pleasant camping environment.
What Guests Are Saying
Dowdy Lake offers a beautiful campground with well-maintained sites and restrooms, stunning scenery, and abundant wildlife, making it a favorite spot for campers. Many visitors appreciate the peaceful atmosphere, clean facilities, and helpful camp hosts. While some minor issues, like noise from nearby roads and bright restroom lights, were noted, overall experiences have been positive, with enjoyable outdoor activities and a pleasant camping environment.
Review Summary
Judy C
VerifiedAugust 17, 2020 • Stayed at: 037, Loop: D
Site and campground was awesome! Camp hosts and maintenance folks were double awesome!! But there was no electricity. It just wouldn’t work. The guys worked hard to fix it the next morning but we had to move On by 11am. Went to a second site and that electrical box didn’t work either! Again the site, Campground, camp hosts, and maintenance folks were all wonderful-its just tough to go camping at a site 2 nights in a row - pay $40 each night - and not have electricity we expected, meal planned for, and paid a lot for!!! Please fund your campgrounds better! Train your folks to test electrical each day because you can’t charge that much for an electric site and not provide it. Now with fires close to the area-our $40 site cost $32 to cancel—-we get $8 back to cancel a reservation because they evacuated the area!! WTF?!? I wouldn’t ask for a refund at all if the money went to National Forest or Firefighting efforts, but it goes to campground management company that can’t even keep up maintenance on electrical boxes! Very disappointed!!! Now I just learned that I was charge $72 instead of $40 for second night of camping! Place is a scam!
Dennis H
VerifiedAugust 9, 2020 • Stayed at: 053, Loop: E
We love Dowdy and have been going there for years. Clean, Beautiful lake and hiking. Restrooms well cared for.....Love it!!
Jill S
VerifiedAugust 9, 2020 • Stayed at: 059, Loop: E
We always love to camp at Dowdy Lake!
Dennis H
VerifiedAugust 9, 2020 • Stayed at: 053, Loop: E
We love Dowdy and have been going there for years. Clean, Beautiful lake and hiking. Restrooms well cared for.....Love it!!
Jill S
VerifiedAugust 9, 2020 • Stayed at: 059, Loop: E
We always love to camp at Dowdy Lake!
Julia B
VerifiedAugust 7, 2020 • Stayed at: 004, Loop: A
Really enjoyed this lovely lake.
Conny S
August 7, 2020
Camp hosts (Kathy and Mike) are so helpful and do an excellent job of keeping campsites neat for the next guest. The pit toilets are well lit at night and spotless. The campground it well laid out and marked for ease of locating site. We loved being in a tent site that made it possible to lauch our kayaks and enjoy the beauty. Thanks for making our outing during a pandemic a rewarding experience.
Julia B
VerifiedAugust 7, 2020 • Stayed at: 004, Loop: A
Really enjoyed this lovely lake.
Conny S
August 7, 2020
Camp hosts (Kathy and Mike) are so helpful and do an excellent job of keeping campsites neat for the next guest. The pit toilets are well lit at night and spotless. The campground it well laid out and marked for ease of locating site. We loved being in a tent site that made it possible to lauch our kayaks and enjoy the beauty. Thanks for making our outing during a pandemic a rewarding experience.
Judi H
VerifiedAugust 4, 2020 • Stayed at: 040, Loop: E
We loved camping at Dowdy Lake. Our site was perfect in regard to distance to the lake front, other campers, etc. The lake is gorgeous and we cannot wait to go back next year.
Location & Directions for Dowdy Lake
9054 U.S Hwy 285, Morrison, CO 80465 United States
Elevation: 2,496 ft
Getting There
From Fort Collins, take Highway 287 north for approximately 24 mi to Livermore. Turn west on County Road 74 and continue about 23 mi to Dowdy Lake Road. Turn right, then another right onto Dowdy Drive and continue to the campground.
Highway access
Dowdy Lake is accessed via Highway 287, which is approximately 24 miles from Fort Collins. From Highway 287, the route continues on County Road 74 for about 23 miles before reaching Dowdy Lake Road.
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