Aspen Glade (Rio Grande National Forest, CO)
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $29–$58Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 30All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
Aspen Glade Campground sits on the Conejos River in southern Colorado, providing a premium setting for fly fishing and peaceful nature watching. Keep reading
Recreation
Forest Road 250 provides an unforgettable scenic drive, where visitors are met with sweeping views of the Conejos Canyon and River. Just upstream of the campground is a section of "Gold Medal" trout fishing, offering top-tier fishing for large quality trout. Just 168 miles of the 9,000 miles of trout streams in Colorado are designated with this title. The nearby Sheep Creek Trail is also highly recommended for avid hikers.
Facilities
The 32 spacious, reservable campsites are considerably quiet, allowing for the sounds of birds overhead. Drinking water and vault toilets are provided.
Natural Features
Within the campground, Loop A and B are lightly wooded with Ponderosa pines. Loop C is heavily wooded with tall, mature spruce, aspen and fir trees. It lies along the fast-flowing Conejos River. The understory for all campsites is grass topped with pine needles. Aspen Glade sits near the border of New Mexico at 8,500 feet. It is situated between the Carson and Rio Grande National Forests. Wildlife in the region includes bear, deer, elk and a variety of birds.
Nearby Attractions
Visitors can ride a traditional steam engine at the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad on a 64-mile journey through abandoned mining towns. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (805) 434-1996.
What the agency tells you
PMC & Recreation.gov policy states we will keep your reserved site until check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. If you haven't occupied it at any time during this period, your reservation is null and void and we will give it to first come first serve folks. Your reservation will be a no show and no refund will be given.
All single campsite reservation fees are good for 6 people and 1 vehicle. The maximum number of people per site is 8 ($10.00 additional charge after 6 people). The maximum number of vehicles per site is 2 ($10.00 additional charge for 2nd vehicle). Any extra people/vehicle fees will be charged at the campground ($10/night per person/vehicle).
All double campsite reservation fees are good for 12 people and two vehicles. The maximum number of people per double site is 16 ($10.00 additional charge after 12 people). The maximum number of vehicles per site is 2 ($10.00 additional charge for over 2 vehicles). Any extra people/vehicle fees will be charged at the campground ($10/night per person/vehicle).
Everything else this campground posts · 10
First-come, first-serve campsites may be available but not guaranteed
The 14 day stay limit is strictly enforced. Camping for a period longer than 14 days during any 30-consecutive day period is prohibited. If you have booked back-to-back reservations, you will be asked to cancel all days after the first 14.
The camp host at this location cannot modify your reservation. Before your check-in date, you may cancel or modify your reservation online. After your check-out date, you have a 7 day period to request a refund online.
Weather conditions can change rapidly; please check prior to arrival
Please fill your trailer prior to arriving. Trailers are not allowed to fill at any hydrants as it might contaminate the entire water system.
Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing organisms by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
No off-road vehicles permitted
Livestock and horses are not permitted
There are no electric hookups available
The Rio Grande National Forest continues to monitor the COVID-19 situation and evaluate potential impacts and adjustments to reservations and our reservation policies through Recreation.gov. Reservation holders will be notified via email and/or cell phone text messages if there are any changes affecting their reservation. In the event of delayed openings of some, part or all of the campgrounds and cabins to ensure safe social distancing, you will receive a full refund for your reservation. Please remember to review current recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and focus on recreating safely while protecting yourself, Forest Service employees and our volunteers.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 30
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 90 ft
- Accessible sites
- 5
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…of birds overhead. Drinking water and vault toilets are provided. Natural Features Within the…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…for the sounds of birds overhead. Drinking water and vault toilets are provided. Natural Features…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Fishing
- Night sky · 79th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 2
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.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
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.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
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.
Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
“The maximum number of vehicles per site is 2 ($10.00 additional charge for 2nd vehicle).” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $29–$58 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking, plus the agency’s published $2 weekend rate on Friday and Saturday. 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
32 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 32 mapped sitesAll 32 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 30 of the 32 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| ASPE | 011 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 139 ft | 424 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPA | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 69 ft | 382 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPA | 002 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 69 ft | 412 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPA | 003 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 38 ft | 481 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPA | 004 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 38 ft | 491 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPA | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 76 ft | 500 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPA | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 110 ft | 516 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPA | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 91 ft | 407 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPA | 008 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 35 ft | 328 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPA | 009 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 35 ft | 350 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPA | 010 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 68 ft | 417 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPB | 012 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 90 ft | 264 ft | $29–$58 |
| LOPB | 013 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 145 ft | 292 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPB | 014 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 91 ft | 334 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPB | 015 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 91 ft | 291 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPB | 016 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 119 ft | 187 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPB | 017 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 68 ft | 203 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPB | 018 Host | host pad | 40 ft | 68 ft | 199 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPB | 019 Host | host pad | 50 ft | 90 ft | 217 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPC | 020 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 135 ft | 98 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPC | 021 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 84 ft | 147 ft | $29–$58 |
| LOPC | 022 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 84 ft | 136 ft | $29–$58 |
| LOPC | 023 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 80 ft | 119 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPC | 024 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 136 ft | 101 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPC | 025 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 88 ft | 180 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPC | 026 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 130 ft | 204 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPC | 027 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 88 ft | 264 ft | $29–$58 |
| LOPC | 028 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 38 ft | 251 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPC | 029 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 38 ft | 269 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPC | 030 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 97 ft | 217 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPC | 031 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 73 ft | 330 ft | $29–$58 | |
| LOPC | 032 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 80 ft | 198 ft | $29–$58 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It names them host pads. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 32 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
MogoteRio Grande National Forest · 2.2 miMogote - Juniper Group Camping SiteRio Grande National Forest · 2.4 mi
Elk Creek Campground (Rio Grande NF)Rio Grande National Forest · 6.4 miTrujillo Meadows CampgroundRio Grande National Forest · 10 miSpectacle Lake CampgroundRio Grande National Forest · 11 miFrom Antonito, Colorado, go west on Highway 17 for approximately 15 miles to the Aspen Glade Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Conejos, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 28°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 5°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Aspen Glade (Rio Grande National Forest, CO) is in Colorado’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Jeff Hurd (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →