Buffalo Pass Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Season
- May 1 – November 30Open May 1 through November 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
The campground is comprised of a single large loop, surrounded by a grass meadow in a Ponderosa Pine grove. There are 19 sites, 4 are pull-through. The sites are large and well-spaced with sites #16, 17 and 18 on a dead-end spur with no turn around. The open areas are dotted with wildflowers. The campground is conveniently situated to State Hwy 114 for an overnight stay.
Around the campground
- On the water
- Meadow
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $10 with nothing added. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 7
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($10), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Upper Crossing Guard StationSan Luis Valley Field Office · 4.6 miNeedle Creek Reservoir Camping AreaGunnison National Forest · 12 mi
Carnero Guard StationRio Grande National Forest · 15 mi
Stone Cellar Guard StationRio Grande National Forest · 15 mi
Storm King CampgroundRio Grande National Forest · 16 mi
Poso CampgroundRio Grande National Forest · 20 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Saguache, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 26°F, day 61°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical November night 14°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 moreOutside the published season
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
Buffalo Pass Campground 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 →