Camp Dick in CO -- Campground & RV Camping

Camp Dick is a 1930s Civilian Conservation Corps site along Middle Saint Vrain Creek, located off the Peak to Peak Scenic Byway in a glacial valley of mixed conifer, aspens, and open meadow. The campground offers tent pads, RV sites, picnic tables, fire rings with grills, water spigots, vault toilets, and trash collection. The creek provides fly-fishing for rainbow, brown, and cutthroat trout. Sourdough Trail and Buchanan Pass Trail are directly accessible for hiking and biking, with the Indian Peaks Wilderness boundary 4 miles away and Rocky Mountain National Park 25 miles north.

Getting there: From Denver, travel north on Interstate 25 north, to U.S. Highway 36 and continue west through Boulder, to Lyons. From Lyons, take Highway 7 for 12 miles to Highway 72, then continue south for four miles. Watch for signs for Peaceful Valley and Camp Dick Campgrounds. Turn west onto Middle Saint Vrain Road (County Road 92 & National Forest System Road 114) and proceed approximately one mile to Camp Dick.

• Little separation from through roads or other sites here, a 42-site campground with the nearest through road 0.1 miles off.
• Saint Vrain Mountain stands 3,527 ft above the map pin, 4.2 miles northwest.
• A pond lies 0.6 mi off.
• Estimated night sky: Bortle 2, true dark-sky territory.

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