Aspen Campground (CO)
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $14From, per site
- Sites
- 7All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
The small quaint Aspen Campground offers a peaceful, scenic setting in the heart of the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado. The campground is located in Routt National Forest at an elevation of 9,052-ft., and is adjacent to Owl Mountain with easy access to OHV and Wilderness trails Recreation This campground offers access to many recreational opportunities for the adventurer. OHV and Wilderness hiking are the two most popular options. OHV options include skill levels from beginner to expert riding. For those looking to take it easy, use the Forest Road 740 for scenic forest riding. Keep reading
For those looking for more of a challenge, use the Silver Creek road (780) or Calamity Pass. Those looking for wilderness access, use the Silver Creek, South Fork, Jack Park, Jack Creek, Illinois River, or Illinois Pass Trail Heads. All of these trail heads take you into the Never Summer Wilderness which is the back side of Rocky National Park.
Facilities
Aspen Campground offers a water station for potable water and two bathrooms.
Natural Features
Aspen Campground sits at the base of Owl mountain tucked away in a grove of aspen trees. Natural streams and rivers nearby make the area prime Moose territory. Sightings are common, especially during early and late season.
Nearby Attractions
The closest town is Walden, Colorado, about 35 miles from the campsite. Here they offer a public dump station and potable water fill all free of charge. Owl Mountain summit sits at 10,956 feet and is easily accessible by high clearance vehicles.
What the agency tells you
Trash Collection and Vault toilets available all season
Maximum of two vehicles allowed per site
Cell phone reception is limited. T-Mobile and AT&T work best in this location
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Due to high elevation, snow is possible in the summer months
For online payment, Please have the Rec.gov app downloaded on your phone before arrival
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 7
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Facilities Aspen Campground offers a water station for potable water and two bathrooms. Natural…”
- Dump station
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Off Highway Vehicle Trails
- Off Road Vehicle Trails
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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Tell me when the season opens
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One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $14 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
7 sites
All 7 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 7 of the 7 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.