CO Lightner Creek Campground Durango Co

We stayed at Lightner Creek Campground, which is about a 7-minute drive from downtown Durango, CO, in July. The campground is a mixed use tent/RV campground, and has electric and water hookups for all sites (sewer hookups for the RV sites). We let the camp manager know that we were pulling a teardrop, and she put us in a nice spot in the tent camping area. Some of the sites back to the creek that runs through the campground. Ours backed up to a mountain.

There are free showers, a dish washing station, a dog park, laundry facilities, and a pool as well.

While this wasn't a nice, secluded state park site, it was a very nice campground, and did not have that RV Parking Lot feel that so many campgrounds catering to RVs have. It was a quiet campground, and conveniently located along the Million Dollar Freeway between Durango and Silverton. My son's only complaint was that the trees caused us to have zero cell phone reception except up by the front office.

There is a grocery store about 5 minutes away. We went rafting on the Animas River, rode bikes on the 5-mile river trail loop, and spent a day at Purgatory Ski Resort, where they had summer activities (alpine slide, scenic chair lift rides, mountain coaster, zipline, a ropes course, miniature golfing, mountain biking, and paddle boarding on a small lake). I had to work on one day and needed to be able to access the internet, so we spent one day at the library, which is also situated on the Animas River. Not a bad way to fit in some work on a holiday.

 

We just drove through Durango. That is a beautiful part of the state. I will have to check out that campground soon.

 

Sounds lovely. Brand new to this and we are trying to figure out how the campsites work. Were you hooked up to electric here. Guessing no...

 

Our campsite had electric and water available, but no sewer since we were in the "tent" section.