Camp Dick
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $17.25–$34.50Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 4120 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Camp Dick is the site of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp that was established in the 1930s. It is located just off the Peak to Peak Scenic Byway, on the Middle Saint Vrain Creek. Keep reading
Recreation
The Middle Saint Vrain Creek is a good fly-fishing stream where anglers cast for rainbow, brown and cutthroat trout. Many trails in the vicinity are open to hiking and biking, including Sourdough and Buchanan Pass trails. The Indian Peaks Wilderness boundary is four miles from the west end of the campground. Mountain biking is allowed on the first five miles of Buchanan Pass Trail. Bikers can ride a loop from Peaceful Valley or Camp Dick, via Buchanan Pass Trail and Middle Saint Vrain Road, or Coney Cutoff and Coney Creek Roads and Sourdough Trail. The Middle Saint Vrain and Bunce School roads are popular among off-road vehicle enthusiasts. Guided horseback riding is available at Peaceful Valley Lodge, which is just over a mile away.
Facilities
Campsites will accommodate tents and RVs. Sites includes picnic tables and campfire ring with grill. Water spigots, vault toilets, and trash services are provided at the campground. Firewood may be purchased during the peak season. There are no electrical hook-ups, dump stations, or showers. Tents must remain on tent pads.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the banks of the Middle Saint Vrain Creek in a glacial valley surrounded by mixed conifer and aspen forests and an open meadow. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 529-0578.
Nearby Attractions
The town of Allenspark is less than 10 miles north of the campground, and has a restaurant and a grocery store. Rocky Mountain National Park's main entrance is 25 miles north of the campground, in Estes Park. With lush valleys and craggy peaks reaching elevations higher than 14,000 feet, visitors are provided opportunities for countless breathtaking experiences and adventures. Scenic driving, hiking, backpacking, fishing, horseback riding and wildlife viewing are popular activities available within the park. Estes Park is a full-service community. Dining, shopping, rafting, fly fishing, horseback riding and golfing opportunities are available there. Lake Estes offers boating, sailboarding and fishing.
Charges & Cancellations
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
RV water connections are not available. Utility hookups are not available and the nearest showers are 12 miles north, at Meeker Park Lodge
All campsites with a tent pad have a bear locker. For bear and human safety, keep a clean campsite and do not place food or other attractants in your tent. For more information about visiting bear country, contact Colorado Parks and Wildlife at http://wildlife.state.co.us
A limited number of sites may be available on a first-come, first-served basis
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https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/arp for more information on the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forest
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.
Pets must be on a hand-held leash at all times.
RVs, trailers or other vehicles must fit on the parking spur. Driving or parking off road is not allowed.
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
- 41
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- 15
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campfire ring with grill. Water spigots, vault toilets, and trash services are provided at the campground.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…tables and campfire ring with grill. Water spigots, vault toilets, and trash services are provided at…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek, Meadow
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Mountain biking
- Off Highway Vehicle Trails
- Night sky · 489th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, 9.5 km away
- Peak color
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:01 UTC
recreation.gov lists 20 of the 41 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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.
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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, $17.25–$34.50 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.
“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.” · 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:01 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
42 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 20 mapped sitesAll 42 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 41 of the 42 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. 41 of the 42 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.
| CAMP | 007 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 136 ft | 171 ft | 164 ft | $17.25–$34.50 |
| CAMP | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 82 ft | 162 ft | 218 ft | $17.25–$34.50 |
| CAMP | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 82 ft | 152 ft | 288 ft | $17.25–$34.50 |
| CAMP | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 114 ft | 127 ft | 199 ft | $17.25–$34.50 |
| CAMP | 012 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 115 ft | 141 ft | 84 ft | $17.25–$34.50 |
| CAMP | 021 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 158 ft | 331 ft | 189 ft | $17.25–$34.50 | |
| CAMP | 022 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 113 ft | 364 ft | 305 ft | $17.25–$34.50 | |
| CAMP | 023 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 75 ft | 371 ft | 196 ft | $17.25–$34.50 | |
| CAMP | 025 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 75 ft | 360 ft | 122 ft | $17.25–$34.50 | |
| CAMP | 027 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 107 ft | 344 ft | 18 ft | $17.25–$34.50 | |
| CAMP | 029 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 80 ft | 387 ft | 113 ft | $17.25–$34.50 |
| CAMP | 030 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 80 ft | 461 ft | 183 ft | $17.25–$34.50 |
| CAMP | 031 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 107 ft | 552 ft | 240 ft | $17.25–$34.50 |
| CAMP | 032 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 62 ft | 579 ft | 169 ft | $17.25–$34.50 |
| CAMP | 033 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 62 ft | 560 ft | 136 ft | $17.25–$34.50 |
| CAMP | 034 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 70 ft | 522 ft | 104 ft | $17.25–$34.50 |
| CAMP | 035 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 214 ft | 374 ft | 182 ft | $17.25–$34.50 |
| CAMP | 036 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 70 ft | 464 ft | 48 ft | $17.25–$34.50 |
| CAMP | 037 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 70 ft | 506 ft | 115 ft | $17.25–$34.50 |
| CAMP | 038 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 94 ft | 408 ft | 216 ft | $17.25–$34.50 |
| MANAGEMENT | 001 | type not stated | 66 ft | 419 ft | $17.25 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 0011 | type not stated | 219 ft | 225 ft | $17.25 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 0013 | type not stated | 168 ft | 73 ft | $17.25 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 0014 | type not stated | 144 ft | 194 ft | $17.25 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 0015 | type not stated | 128 ft | 245 ft | $17.25 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 0016 | type not stated | 110 ft | 369 ft | $17.25 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 0017 | type not stated | 265 ft | 404 ft | $17.25 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 0018 | type not stated | 247 ft | 276 ft | $17.25 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 0019 | type not stated | 238 ft | 183 ft | $17.25 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 002 | type not stated | 133 ft | 363 ft | $17.25 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 0020 | type not stated | 319 ft | 168 ft | $17.25 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 0024 | type not stated | 281 ft | 266 ft | $17.25 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 0026 | type not stated | 269 ft | 180 ft | $17.25 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 0028 | type not stated | 272 ft | 69 ft | $17.25 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 003 | type not stated | 28 ft | 342 ft | $17.25 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 0039 | type not stated | 344 ft | 185 ft | $17.25 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 004 | type not stated | 93 ft | 259 ft | $17.25 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 0040 | type not stated | 236 ft | 259 ft | $17.25 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 0041 | type not stated | 104 ft | 344 ft | $17.25 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 005 | type not stated | 188 ft | 245 ft | $17.25 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 006 | type not stated | 185 ft | 173 ft | $17.25 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX | unnamed record | 99 ft | yes | $17.25 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It types it MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 42 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Peaceful ValleyRoosevelt National Forest · 0.7 mi
PawneeRoosevelt National Forest · 2.6 mi
Pawnee CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 4.4 mi
Olive RidgeRoosevelt National Forest · 5.4 mi
Meeker Park Overflow CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 7.8 miRainbow Lakes CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 8.8 miFrom Denver, travel north on Interstate 25 north, to U.S. Highway 36 and continue west through Boulder, to Lyons.
From Lyons, take Highway 7 for 12 miles to Highway 72, then continue south for four miles. Watch for signs for Peaceful Valley and Camp Dick Campgrounds. Turn west onto Middle Saint Vrain Road (County Road 92 & National Forest System Road 114) and proceed approximately one mile to Camp Dick.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Hidden Lake, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 30°F, day 57°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 16°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
Camp Dick 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 →