Molly Brown Campground

Beautiful campground. Well laid out. Tables and fire rings are a good distance from camper site. Trees provide privacy. Hosts extremely friendly and informative. Deliver firewood to you if you need it or honor system at their site. Great experience. About 10 minutes from Leadville. Paved roads. Our 35 foot fifth wheel fit in this site easily. Hosts post cancellations on campsites if they open up so It is possible to get a FF site sometimes as this is a reservation only park. Very popular park.

We stayed here for 4 nights including a weekend in late June 2020. The weather was awesome with highs in the 60’s during the day, lows in the 40’s at night. A nice break from the mid-90’s in Denver. In general, the campsites were well spaced and there are enough trees to give the sense of some privacy. There are no hookups at any sites, and no dump station within the campground although the host said there was a Forest Service operated dump station less than a mile away at the GPS coordinates 39.2687, ‐106.3465 . Our site, #7, allowed sufficient sunlight through to keep our batteries fully charged, although most campsites look like they would not be favorable for solar generation. Non-threaded spigots are available throughout the campground for filling water jugs. Vault toilets were clean and well stocked during our stay which is noteworthy given that the campground was packed. And of course, with a packed campground you get your share of inconsiderate people which always detracts from the camping experience. Campsites along the lake have beautiful views of the water and surrounding mountain peaks, but if you snag one of those prime spots, be prepared to have people walking through your campsite to get to the water. There seemed to be a pleasant and constant breeze coming across the lake which kept the mosquitoes down, but the few times the breeze stopped, the skeeters came out in force. We will definitely be back, but probably closer to either the beginning or end of the campground’s season with the hope that there will be fewer people here. We had voice-only coverage from Verizon at site #7, but ATT gave us 28 Mbps down and 10 Mbps up.

We stayed at the Molly Brown Campground in late June. The campground is quiet and right on Turquoise Lake. Google maps led us to the campground without issue and there is good signage to the campground once you are close.

Since we live in the mountains of Colorado and don’t have any mosquitoes at home we were surprised to have mosquitoes at the campground. During the day the mosquitoes weren’t an issue, but in the morning and the evenings they did become a nuisance during our stay in late June.

We had planned on sharing Site 20 with friends. The site was large enough for two cars and their trailer and relatively flat. The recreation.gov site indicates two vehicles can be at a site with an additional fee of $5 per vehicle. However, the camp hosts interpret this to mean one camping unit and would not allow us to stay at the site with our friends, even though we were willing to pay any additional fees. Had we been allowed to share there would have only been four adults on the site. Luckily we had arrived midweek so the campground had a few open sites which we were able to grab.

We ended up in site 34 which worked well for our van, but this particular site had a fairly small parking area, so most campers pulling a trailer or larger campers would not fit in this site. There were also no flat spots for tents in this site. Most sites had space for large campers and also had flat spots for tents. The road through the campground is paved, but the parking for the sites is packed dirt. Most sites were reasonably flat.

The pit bathrooms were relatively new and clean. There is a water spigot near the trash bins at the top of the main loop.

The Verizon service was spotty throughout the campground. As long as we used our van's roof LTE antennae we were okay.

We have camped over 80 nights in the past year in state and federal campgrounds and have great appreciation for the services provided by camp hosts. Unfortunately we found the camp hosts at this campground to be hostile and very rude. It’s the first time we have ever had a negative experience with camp hosts and are still surprised by it. A look at the google reviews found this to be a pattern with the host at this campground. Unfortunately their hostility did put a negative mark on our otherwise pleasant stay.