Go enjoy yourself, it's a great place. If you don't have fun here, then you need better travel companions. And please 🙏 clean up like you were never there so everyone after you can enjoy it as much as you will.

This is a beautiful recreational area for camping, fishing, boating, and living. The Gunnison River flows along Route 50 into the Recreational area and fills up into a lake. The water level is low at the lake but you can still put your boat in. The National Park Service visitors center is brand new and just opened recently. Camp sites are plentiful. Enjoy!!!

Absolutely gorgeous, the train, the dam, the river, creeks and hiking trails were amazing. Well worth the drive out there. Free and much more scenic than Black Canyon National Park.

Windy mountain beaches. Lots of likable spots around the lake, but I liked the Bay of Chickens best. Cool, calm water lapping up the shore, facing the western sun, armada of chicken cloud-gods soaring through the skies—what’s not to like?

The weather was rainy and windy all weekend, which is okay. We took the Soap Creek Rd to Ponderosa campgrounds. I would've preferred a spot with more trees. We caught fish everyday and had a great time!

This is one of our favorite spots to pull over and hike and/picnic as we head west from Denver. The water dries up a lot in the summer (like most of the west) but it's prominent in other seasons, giving you gorgeous views of the surrounding landscape. We love hiking to the Dillon Pinnacles, and there are plenty of spots where you can pull off on the side of the road to view the pinnacles from afar. Curecanti is on Ute land.

Nice area, plenty of camping spots

Very petty and interesting place. I wish they still allowed visitors in the dam. The campgrounds are also closed.

One of the best areas! Beautiful drive. Gunnison -> Telluride

Greatest hole in Colorado, what a beautiful place from top to bottom. The river is fun just to look it's also fun to fish. The road down with it's 16% grade is an experience in itself. Many trails, lookouts to explore. Spend a day spend two. This is one of those parks you can come back to year after year and have a great time.

Short little hike that is mostly shaded. Lots of birds and bunnies. Several river access points

We out out at a stop near a campground and enjoyed some sun and stretched our legs on our trip. What a lovely place to view.

Enjoyed the area, camping was a nice quiet experience. I was here over a decade ago and thought, "I should come here more often".

Beautiful place. Not as full of water as before but still worth seeing. Tons of annoying insects and mosquitos so beware. They go inside your vehicle as soon as you open the door.

Fresh water, boats and swiming. This lake is HUGE, wraps around and along the highway. Really cool spot to take a dip and chill

Love fishing here great spots and the view is Georges

Curecanti is a beautiful area. My hunting club and I hunt elk there. This summer I took a buddy hiking there and we had a great time. It doesn't matter if you are a hunter, an angler, hiker, camper, or road tripper. If you like the outdoors, there's something here for you. Take a whole day and drive up the drainages. My favorite is red creek.

Labor Day weekend boating! Just beautiful! Lake is very full!

Cool place to run the dogs.

Didn't do a ton here - we were mainly in the area to visit Black Canyon of the Gunnison, but saw we could do some kayaking here. Which we did, successfully, with rentals from Lake Fork Marina. We also stopped at the Elk Creek Visitor Center to learn a little about the area. Our kids were able to complete the junior ranger program (which they've enjoyed immensely at other NPS-operated properties over the past year) and earned a badge, plus a couple others the rangers working here gave them for other programs offered. Another stop worth making is the East Portal. This is accessible only by entering through the National Park's entrance, which is a pretty substantial drive away from Cimarron and points east (especially if you have to wait in construction traffic on 50), then taking a steep and winding road down to the river's level. But also a really cool canyon experience without having to hike down into it (and the permitting required for that). Also, the area's official map notes the Cimarron Visitor Center is open seasonally, but I'm not sure what season that is. The official website only mentions the Elk Creek VC. And when we stopped by on our way to check out the Mesa Creek Trail, it was a ghost town, and while the building appeared occupied-ish, the grounds weren't as pristinely maintained as you usually find at other NPS sites.

So picturesque and peaceful! The blue of the water matches the blue of the sky. Just so nice to be part of nature and it’s beauty.

Some sites have restrooms, some have covered picnic tables. Most have incredible views. There are a lot of options along the Gunnison river, the Blue Mesa Reservoir basins, and heading to the north rim of the Black Canyon along CO-92.

What a beautiful National Park! Well worth the extra time to descend to the canyon floor.

Affordable camping with water and fire pits. Beautiful views, quiet and tons of stars. Great place to stop for the night with the RV and dog.

Easy hike with beautiful views. Multiple benches on the trail to sit and enjoy the view. Vault toilet at the trail head.

It's great to have an electric hookup option in the shoulder season. We were able to roll up with no reservation in April and easily grab a spot on the electric hookup side of the campground. Limited facilities otherwise (no water no toilets) but everything we needed was there when we needed it. The main loops were plowed as were many options for spots.

This place is great. Try to get out th we re atleast once a week on the weekends to fish wakeboard, and water-ski, and knee board with my wife and our friends. Boat inspections are fast and Jason at Elk Creek inspections is a pleasure to deal with.

There is a small but really nice visitor center here and somewhere to stop before doing exploring Curecanti. The staff are friendly and helpful, with a good knowledge of the area. Its good to stop here and pick up maps of the area so that you can see where the best hikes are. However Curecanti is really for boat owners Gunnison NP/NF are much better for hiking. There are some lovely views if you drive along the lake side, but like most lakes at the moment, the water levels are really low. Worth a visit.

Fun place to get away at and the lake is beautiful. Found a nice trail down to the river that connects

It's not bad, and the hikes down to Curecanti Creek and Pine Creek were nice, but this area **as it exists today** with damned dams and all, per Marc Reisner in "Cadillac Desert," shouldn't exist. Add in that National Recreation Areas like this, designed around damned dams, shouldn't be in the National Park Service because they violate its Organic Act, and you have an additional issue.

No snack bar, no gift shop, no service. I love it!

Good fishing