Lost Lake Campground-Paonia RD

Beautiful campground, there were about 3 campsites open when I arrived around 1 pm on a Friday of a peak foliage weekend. Very clean bathrooms. It is a bit busy, with nearly 20 campsites and people doing day passes to hike, but that is the price you pay for epic scenery. The only thing that was unfortunate is a continuous sound of drones, morning and night. I won't mind if they made those illegal. Besides that, great stay. So nice to have hikes starting from the campsite! I did both and enjoyed Beckwith pass slightly better, both were quiet on a Sunday morning but the free parking looked packed coming down at noon. No cell service so plan accordingly.

Two years in a row they have drained the slough/lake and it unfortunately takes away a lot of the beauty. This place has a nice small campground of about 14 sites, but it’s first come first serve and it’s at the end of about 20 miles of gravel Road to get there. LET ME REPEAT- 20 MILES OF GRAVEL ROAD TO GET THERE WHETHER YOU COME FROM CRESTED BUTTE OR PAONIA STATE PARK! One would think that it would be secluded given how far it is from everything but unfortunately, it is an extremely crowded place for hiking and day use as well as people trying to get into the campground. As a result, it is probably not a place we would ever go back even though it has great potential. If you do go , do not miss dollar Lake as part of the three lake 3 mile hiking tour. Dollar Lake is very natural and ver

Great place but try to book in advance. Very popular. Great hiking

AMAZING scenery. Clean pit toilets, and there's dumpsters and water available. Great trail around three lakes right from the campground. Busy place for camping, first come first serve. We were lucky to get a site on a Tuesday in July.

The host does not honor the interagency pass that applies to all national forest lands in and national parks. I think our government continues to outsource to the lowest bidder, which results in everyone having to pay more leading to inconsistency and frustration. This place gets one star because it is one hell of a drive to get up here to realize you have to pay more money on top of paying for an inter agency pass. It is beautiful, it’s just really unfortunate. It’s written by another greedy third-party company. Maybe that’s why the Day use area is completely empty.