Bellaire Lake Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $30–$121Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2726 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Bellaire Campground is located 47 miles northwest of Fort Collins, Colo., near the Red Feather Lakes village. Visitors enjoy the area for its canoeing, fishing and trail opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Canoeing and fishing are popular activities on 10-acre, no-wake Bellaire Lake. Anglers cast for rainbow and brook trout, among other species. The campground is within walking distance of the lake via an accessible boardwalk. Several additional lakes are in the vicinity. Many hiking, biking and horseback riding trails are in the surrounding area, including the 1.25-mile Molly Lake Trail and 4-mile Mount Margaret Trail. Several off-road vehicle trails are located within five miles of the campground. Other popular activities include viewing wildlife and visiting nearby Redfeather Visitor Center.
Facilities
The campground offers accessible single, double and triple family sites with electric hookups. Five additional sites are designated for tent camping and do not have hookups. Each site contains a tent pad, picnic table and campfire ring with grill. Flush toilets, vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Dead and downed firewood may be gathered in the forest or purchased from the campground host.
Natural Features
The campground is comprised of rolling hills, pine forests and unique rock formations. It sits near Bellaire Lake at an elevation of 8,600 feet. Afternoon thunderstorms can be expected during spring and summer months. Due to the mountain pine beetle infestation and the removal of hazardous trees, there may be little to no shade in the campground. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 529-0578.
Nearby Attractions
The small village of Red Feather Lakes is nearby, offering limited dining options, gift shops, general stores, a library, post office and a golf course.
Charges & Cancellations
A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. Late cancellations are subject to additional fees. Modifications for this campground must be made through Recreation.gov or by calling the call center at 1-877-444-6777 PRIOR to your reservation start date. Customers and contact center agents cannot modify reservations on or after the check-in date.
What the agency tells you
No RV water connections are available. Come with your RV/trailer water tank filled. Filling at campground hydrants cross-contaminates the system and is not allowed.
Off-road vehicles and horses are not allowed in the campground
Extra parking is not available
Everything else this campground posts · 9
https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/arp for more information on the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests
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.
All campsites must be occupied within 26 hours of the beginning of the reservation. If not present the site will be rented by first come first serve basis.
EXTRA VEHICLE FEES: One vehicle is included in your reservation. Any additional vehicles will be charged $8.00 per vehicle per night and will be collected by the camp host if you did not pay for the Extra Vehicle Add On. One vehicle consists of one camper being towed by vehicle, or any other vehicle towed behind camper. One van or one truck with camper attached counts as one vehicle. Extra vehicles must fit on the parking spur at your site.
Fire Restrictions: Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed.
Tents must fit on the pads provided. RVs, trailers or other vehicles must fit on the parking spur. Driving or parking off road is not permitted. The parking length ranges from 30 to 75 feet.
All campsites with a tent pad have a bear locker.
Modifications for this campground must be made through Recreation.gov PRIOR to your reservation start date. Customers and contact center agents cannot modify reservations on or after the check-in date.
Check-Out is at 12 P.M. Check-In is at 2 P.M.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 27
- Hookups
- 21 electric
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets
- “…table and campfire ring with grill. Flush toilets, vault toilets and drinking water are provided.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…grill. Flush toilets, vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Dead and downed firewood may be…”
- Store
- Nearby
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Biking
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Non-Motorized Boating
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 381st darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 5 days ago, 38 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 26 of the 27 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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 · 19
What you actually pay
“Any additional vehicles will be charged $8.00 per vehicle per night and will be collected by the camp host if you did not pay for the Extra Vehicle Add On.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $30–$121 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.
“A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation.” · this campground’s own terms
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 · 7
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
27 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 26 mapped sitesAll 27 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 26 of the 27 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 26 of the 27 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Loop A | 001 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 1,273 ftBellaire Lake | 112 ft | $41–$121 | |
| Loop A | 002 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | yes | 87 ft | 1,235 ftBellaire Lake | 150 ft | $41–$121 |
| Loop A | 003 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 152 ft | 1,030 ftBellaire Lake | 153 ft | $41–$121 | |
| Loop A | 004 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 157 ft | 963 ftBellaire Lake | 244 ft | $41–$121 | |
| Loop A | 005 | standard electric | 43 ft | 50 amp | 106 ft | 857 ftBellaire Lake | 325 ft | $41–$121 | |
| Loop A | 006 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 106 ft | 910 ftBellaire Lake | 296 ft | $41–$121 | |
| Loop A | 007 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 128 ft | 843 ftBellaire Lake | 367 ft | $41–$121 | |
| Loop A | 008 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 911 ftBellaire Lake | 256 ft | $41–$121 | |
| Loop A | 009 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 970 ftBellaire Lake | 203 ft | $41–$121 | |
| Loop A | 010 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 1,122 ftBellaire Lake | 100 ft | $41–$121 | |
| Loop A | 011 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 81 ft | 1,081 ftBellaire Lake | 79 ft | $41–$121 | |
| Loop A | 012 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 150 ft | 1,151 ftBellaire Lake | 115 ft | $41–$121 | |
| Loop A | 013 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | 128 ft | 1,334 ftBellaire Lake | 199 ft | $41–$121 | |
| Loop A | 014 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 135 ft | 1,515 ftBellaire Lake | 360 ft | $41–$121 | |
| Loop A | 015 | standard electric | 38 ft | 50 amp | 106 ft | 1,451 ftBellaire Lake | 327 ft | $41–$121 | |
| Loop A | 016 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 1,547 ftBellaire Lake | 434 ft | $41–$121 | |
| Loop A | 017 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 1,504 ftBellaire Lake | 427 ft | $41–$121 | |
| Loop A | 018 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 94 ft | 1,615 ftBellaire Lake | 539 ft | $41–$121 | |
| Loop A | 019 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | 94 ft | 1,607 ftBellaire Lake | 512 ft | $41–$121 | |
| Loop A | 020 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 134 ft | 1,512 ftBellaire Lake | 385 ft | $41–$121 | |
| Loop A | 021 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 159 ft | 1,351 ftBellaire Lake | 304 ft | $41–$121 | |
| Loop A | 022 | type not stated | 43 ft | 50 amp | |||||
| Loop B | 023 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 101 ft | 346 ftBellaire Lake | 89 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Loop B | 024 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 84 ft | 351 ftBellaire Lake | 189 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| Loop B | 025 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 84 ft | 413 ftBellaire Lake | 244 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| Loop B | 026 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 149 ft | 569 ftBellaire Lake | 298 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| Loop B | 027 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 136 ft | 481 ftBellaire Lake | 152 ft | $30–$60 |
25 of 27 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
West LakeRoosevelt National Forest · 2.8 mi
Redfeather Ranger StationRoosevelt National Forest · 2.9 mi
Dowdy LakeRoosevelt National Forest · 3.3 mi
North Fork Poudre CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 6.2 miBig Bend CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 7.1 mi
Kelly Flats CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 8.9 miFrom Fort Collins, travel north on Highway 287 for 21 miles, to Livermore. Turn left onto Red Feather Lakes Road (County Road 74E) and travel 25 miles, just beyond the south side of Red Feather Lakes. Turn south onto County Road 69 and continue approximately 3 miles. The campground is located on the right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Red Feather Lakes, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 29°F, day 56°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 15°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
Bellaire Lake Campground is in Colorado’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Joe Neguse (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →