Silver Dollar
1Heads up1 fire 5.1 mi away
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $30From, per site
- Sites
- 4338 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
Silver Dollar Campground is situated near the eastern shore of Turquoise Lake in the shade of a lodgepole pine and subalpine fir forest. This family-friendly campground is a popular summer destination for boating, hiking and fishing. Keep reading
Recreation
Hikers enjoy the 1.2-mile Turquoise Lake Nature Trail. The gentle path meanders through the forest and down to the shoreline of Turquoise Lake, and connects with the 6.4-mile Turquoise Lake Trail that parallels the shoreline from the Sugar Loaf Dam to May Queen Campground. Hikers can pick up a trail guide at the trailhead located near the entrance to Molly Brown Campground to learn about the flora and fauna along the path. On the lake, boating, sailing, canoeing and fishing are favorite activities. Anglers fish for stocked cutthroat, rainbow, brown and lake trout. Matchless Boat Ramp is located nearby.
Facilities
The campground offers single-family sites, each equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring. Vault toilets and trash collection are provided. Firewood is available for purchase from the Host. Parking spurs are gravel or dirt.
Natural Features
Campsites are nestled in the forest within walking distance of the scenic lakeshore at 10,000 feet in elevation. The Mount Massive Wilderness Area is nearby. The 30,540-acre expanse encompasses Mount Massive, Colorado's second highest peak at 14,421 feet. Much of the wilderness is above timberline with many alpine plant communities and permanent snowfields.
Nearby Attractions
Venture to Independence Pass for a scenic drive with breathtaking views of the Rockies and surrounding alpine tundra habitat. At 12,095 feet, it is one of the highest paved mountain passes in the country and marks where the Top of the Rockies National Scenic and Historic Byway crosses the Continental Divide. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee including tax and applicable add-on for a campsite. Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee. No-Shows A no-show visitor is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. Staff will hold a campsite until check-out time on the day following the arrival date. No-shows are assessed $20.00 service fee and forfeit the first night's rate, taxes and applicable add-on for a campsite. Refunds Visitors may submit a refund request through their Recreation.gov profile within 7 days of the end date of their reservation. Refunds will not be issued after the 7 days has ended. Refunds for debit or credit card payments will be issued as a credit to the original bank or credit card used to pay. For check or cash purchases, Recreation.gov will mail a Treasury check for refunds of cash, check, or money order payments to the address associated with the reservation. Treasury check refunds may take up to 6-8 weeks to arrive. In the event of an emergency closure, the Recreation.gov team or facility manager will refund all fees and will attempt to notify you using the contact information within the Recreation.gov visitor profile.
What the agency tells you
Water will NOT be available in this campground in 2026. Please bring enough water for your needs, including water to fully extinguish your campfire. Also, the RV Dump Stations at both Printer Boy & White Star Campgrounds will remain closed this season.
Check in: 2 pm, Check out: 12 pm (noon)
Maximum of 8 people are permitted to occupy 1 site.
Everything else this campground posts · 12
3 tent maximum per site, or 1 RV and 2 tents.
Nightly fee includes parking for 2 vehicles. $11.00 nightly fee for a 3rd vehicle. An RV or Boat/ATV trailer is counted as 1 vehicle.
Dogs, including service and therapy dogs, must be leashed at all times.
Generators may not be operated after 10 PM. CPAP machines and other medical equipment are not exempt.
Be bear aware. Do not leave any food unattended at your site. Lock inside your vehicle or RV.
OHVs, ATVs, and dirt bikes are not permitted to operate in any campground
Firearms and fireworks are not permitted
No hookups available
This is a high elevation facility; please use caution when traveling from lower elevations
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.
Click here for more information on Pike and San Isabel National Forests
Firewood is available for sale at host site for $10.00/bundle.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 43
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…with a picnic table and campfire ring. Vault toilets and trash collection are provided. Firewood is…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 390th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 11 days ago, 20 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 38 of the 43 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
“Extra Vehicle Fee $10.00” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $30 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.
“Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee including tax and applicable add-on for a cam…” · this campground’s own no-show 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 · 7
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
46 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 38 mapped sitesAll 46 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 22 of the 46 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 43 of the 46 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| MANAGEMENT | 004 | type not stated | 995 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 015 | type not stated | 844 ft | 3,104 ft | $30 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 020 | type not stated | 1,030 ft | 3,239 ft | $30 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 022 | type not stated | 1,094 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX | unnamed record | 30 ft | $30 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX5 | unnamed record | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX6 | unnamed record | $30 | ||||
| SILV | 001 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 128 ft | 1,176 ft | $30 | |
| SILV | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 106 ft | 1,128 ft | $30 | |
| SILV | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 97 ft | 1,052 ft | $30 | |
| SILV | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 97 ft | 964 ft | $30 | |
| SILV | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 11 ft | 885 ft | 3,207 ft | $30 |
| SILV | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 11 ft | 880 ft | 3,202 ft | $30 |
| SILV | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 111 ft | 840 ft | 3,156 ft | $30 |
| SILV | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 38 ft | 685 ft | 3,006 ft | $30 |
| SILV | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 39 ft | 708 ft | 3,029 ft | $30 |
| SILV | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 38 ft | 703 ft | 3,025 ft | $30 |
| SILV | 012 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 55 ft | 740 ft | 3,057 ft | $30 |
| SILV | 013 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 38 ft | 780 ft | 3,085 ft | $30 |
| SILV | 014 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 38 ft | 807 ft | 3,108 ft | $30 |
| SILV | 016 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 101 ft | 854 ft | 3,116 ft | $30 |
| SILV | 017 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 44 ft | 865 ft | 3,092 ft | $30 |
| SILV | 018 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 44 ft | 868 ft | 3,077 ft | $30 |
| SILV | 019 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 107 ft | 1,014 ft | 3,215 ft | $30 |
| SILV | 021 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 76 ft | 1,081 ft | $30 | |
| SILV | 023 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 76 ft | 1,107 ft | $30 | |
| SILV | 024 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 123 ft | 862 ft | $30 | |
| SILV | 025 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 25 ft | 777 ft | $30 | |
| SILV | 026 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 57 ft | 694 ft | $30 | |
| SILV | 027 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 25 ft | 760 ft | $30 | |
| SILV | 028 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 57 ft | 749 ft | $30 | |
| SILV | 029 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 58 ft | 770 ft | $30 | |
| SILV | 030 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 24 ft | 791 ft | $30 | |
| SILV | 031 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 24 ft | 808 ft | $30 | |
| SILV | 032 | type not stated | 30 ft | 796 ft | $30 | ||
| SILV | 033 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 16 ft | 855 ft | $30 | |
| SILV | 034 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 16 ft | 849 ft | $30 | |
| SILV | 035 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 13 ft | 1,052 ft | $30 | |
| SILV | 036 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 13 ft | 1,042 ft | $30 | |
| SILV | 037 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 31 ft | 1,107 ft | 3,264 ft | $30 |
| SILV | 038 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 31 ft | 1,137 ft | 3,239 ft | $30 |
| SILV | 039 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 167 ft | 950 ft | 3,073 ft | $30 |
| SILV | 040 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 25 ft | 841 ft | 3,037 ft | $30 |
| SILV | 041 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 25 ft | 833 ft | 3,040 ft | $30 |
| SILV | 042 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 103 ft | 712 ft | 2,975 ft | $30 |
| SILV | 043 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 103 ft | 767 ft | 3,053 ft | $30 |
The agency files 3 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 46 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Molly BrownSan Isabel National Forest · 0.3 miBelle of ColoradoSan Isabel National Forest · 0.4 miMatchlessSan Isabel National Forest · 0.5 mi
Baby DoeSan Isabel National Forest · 0.5 mi
Printer BoySan Isabel National Forest · 0.6 mi
Father DyerSan Isabel National Forest · 0.8 miFrom Leadville, Colorado, drive west on County Road 4 and follow signs to the Turquoise Lake Recreation Area. Turn right on County Road 9C and follow to the campground entrance on the right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Leadville North, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 24°F, day 51°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 3°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
Silver Dollar is in Colorado’s 7th congressional district. Its representative, Brittany Pettersen (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →