Lowry Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $27–$38Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 27All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices
In the agency’s own words
At an elevation of 9,320 feet, Lowry Campground is located between Summit Cove and Breckenridge, Colorado in the White River National Forest. This campground is in close proximity to Dillon Reservoir and a handful of trails, making it an ideal setting for guests seeking recreation and relaxation. Due to the pine beetle infestation and removal of hazard trees, there is little or no shade in the campground. Keep reading
Recreation
Dillon Reservoir, often referred to as Lake Dillon, is the greatest draw to this campground, offering 26.8 miles of shoreline. It is an ideal spot for fishing, boating, and sailing. Anglers will find that the reservoir supports a healthy population of rainbow and brown trout, with an occasional cutthroat trout finding its way into the lake from feeder streams. Opportunities for hiking and biking include more than 7 paved miles of the 50-mile Summit County trail system. From the reservoir, the Old Dillon Reservoir trail is a favorite. This short, easy trail has spectacular views of the Tenmile Range and the Continental Divide. The Old Dillon Reservoir was built in the 1930s to supply water to the original town of Dillon, which is now covered by the new Dillon Reservoir.
Facilities
Lowry Campground has 27 sites able to accommodate tents, trailers, and RVs. Three tent-only campsites are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Sites 2-24 have electric hookups. There is an extra fee for the electrical service at these sites. The campground is equipped with picnic tables, campfire rings, drinking water and vault toilets. All campsites are allowed 10 people and two vehicles only, with a maximum vehicle length of 32 feet. Firewood is for sale from hosts at the campground. Boat ramp access is available in the marinas located in the nearby towns of Frisco and Dillon.
Natural Features
In the heart of the Rocky Mountains, the 2.3 million acre White River National Forest is a place of serenity and adventure, boasting 8 wilderness areas, 4 defined seasons, and 10 peaks surpassing 14,000 feet in elevation. Described as being more vertical than horizontal, the nearby Eagles Nest Wilderness, designated in 1976, is a playground of craggy cliffs, sheer rock faces, alpine lakes, and deep, forested valleys. Visitors will find foot travel across this pristine area challenging and often strenuous, but will be rewarded with spectacular scenery. Wildlife in the area abounds. Bighorn sheep navigate rocky ridges and bull elk bugle at dusk. Scenic rivers sustain populations of cutthroat, rainbow, and brown trout. Alpine regions provide habitat for pika and ptarmigan. These species, along with many others, depend on surrounding undeveloped wilderness, clean streams, and diverse forests to live.
Nearby Attractions
Arapahoe Basin, Keystone, Breckenridge, and Copper Mountain ski resorts are all located within 10 miles from Dillon Reservoir. These resorts stay open year round. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (801) 226-3564.
Charges & Cancellations
Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
What the agency tells you
Please Note: One RV with tow per single site or one vehicle per tent site. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. Extra vehicle will be charged a per night fee and collected at the campground.
Body contact with Dillon Reservoir prohibited, including swimming, water skiing, jetskiing and scuba diving
All food, beverages, trash and scented items must be properly stored when not attended. Bear-proof food lockers are provided at each site and bear-proof trash receptacles are provided at the campground.
Everything else this campground posts · 11
Prevent the spread of invasive species by inspecting and cleaning packs, equipment, and tires before using lake or trails
In accordance with standard industry practices, there will be an additional vehicle fee per day on the second vehicle in each single family campsite, and on the third and fourth vehicles in any double family campsite, provided these vehicles are not joined to the first vehicle by a hitch and towed onto the site. In the case of motorcycles, the first two are considered as one vehicle for determining additional vehicle fees. The third and fourth motorcycle would also be considered as one vehicle. No additional vehicle fees are collected for bicycles.
Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (ELEVEN) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
Fire Restrictions: Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed.
Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing organisms by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only.
Click here for more information about White River National Forest
Campers must occupy the site the first night at a campsite. This prevents booking the site for Fri-Sun and showing up on Saturday.
Campers may leave the site for 24 hours and must occupy the site otherwise. This allows a camper to say go for an overnight backpack trip in the woods for one night and come back to their campsite the next day.
Check in time is 2:00pm and Check out time is 11:00am It is imperative that you are clear from the site at 11:00am on your check out day so the host can come prepare the site for the next event. Please don't be the group that makes the incoming group have to wait.
Customer Service Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.WhiteRiver.Dillon@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 27 · 3 tent-only
- Hookups
- 23 electric
- Longest rig
- 55 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campfire rings, drinking water and vault toilets. All campsites are allowed 10 people and two…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…with picnic tables, campfire rings, drinking water and vault toilets. All campsites are allowed 10…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 471st darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 15 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $27–$38 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
“Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.” · this campground’s own terms
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
27 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 26 mapped sitesAll 27 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 27 of the 27 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| LOWR | 001 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 67 ft | 2,263 ft | $27 | |
| LOWR | 002 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 35 ft | 2,229 ft | $38 |
| LOWR | 003 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 35 ft | 2,236 ft | $38 |
| LOWR | 004 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 49 ft | 2,296 ft | $38 |
| LOWR | 005 | standard electric | 33 ft | 30 amp | 38 ft | 2,237 ft | $38 |
| LOWR | 006 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 49 ft | 2,309 ft | $38 |
| LOWR | 007 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | $38 | ||
| LOWR | 008 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 29 ft | 2,272 ft | $38 |
| LOWR | 009 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 29 ft | 2,265 ft | $38 |
| LOWR | 010 | standard electric | 25 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 2,226 ft | $38 |
| LOWR | 011 | standard electric | 22 ft | 30 amp | 93 ft | 2,133 ft | $38 |
| LOWR | 012 | standard electric | 20 ft | 30 amp | 39 ft | 2,077 ft | $38 |
| LOWR | 013 | standard electric | 27 ft | 30 amp | 39 ft | 2,045 ft | $38 |
| LOWR | 014 | standard electric | 28 ft | 30 amp | 54 ft | 1,943 ft | $38 |
| LOWR | 015 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 54 ft | 1,932 ft | $38 |
| LOWR | 016 | standard electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 2,010 ft | $38 |
| LOWR | 017 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 22 ft | 1,946 ft | $38 |
| LOWR | 018 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 22 ft | 1,965 ft | $38 |
| LOWR | 019 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 23 ft | 1,967 ft | $38 |
| LOWR | 020 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 2,050 ft | $38 |
| LOWR | 021 | standard electric | 21 ft | 30 amp | 42 ft | 2,092 ft | $38 |
| LOWR | 022 | standard electric | 30 ft | 30 amp | 52 ft | 2,123 ft | $38 |
| LOWR | 023 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 52 ft | 2,164 ft | $38 |
| LOWR | 024 | standard electric | 38 ft | 30 amp | 115 ft | 2,174 ft | $38 |
| LOWR | 025 | tent only nonelectric | 38 ft | 43 ft | 1,952 ft | $27 | |
| LOWR | 026 | tent only nonelectric | 38 ft | 43 ft | 1,912 ft | $27 | |
| LOWR | 027 | tent only nonelectric | 38 ft | 48 ft | 1,867 ft | $27 |
25 of 27 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
ProspectorWhite River National Forest · 0.2 mi
Windy Point Group (CO)White River National Forest · 0.8 miPine Cove CampgroundWhite River National Forest · 2.0 mi
Peak OneWhite River National Forest · 2.1 mi
Heaton BayWhite River National Forest · 2.4 mi
Blue River Campground (CO)White River National Forest · 10 miFrom I-70, take exit 205. Travel east on Highway 6 towards Keystone, Colorado, for approximately 3 miles. Turn right on Swan Mountain Road and proceed 1.5 miles to the Lowry Campground sign. Turn left and proceed a half mile to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Dillon, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 21°F, day 54°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 2°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Lowry Campground is in Colorado’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Joe Neguse (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →