Cathedral
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 22All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Cathedral Campground is northwest of Del Norte and northeast of South Fork on Embargo Creek. The campground has 22 sites, all first come, first served. 17 are dead end spurs and 5 are pull through sites. The sites vary from 35 to 45 feet in length. This campground is located in a mature aspen and spruce grove with a beautiful view of Cathedral Rock to the north. Embargo Creek flows alongside the east side of the grounds. The campground is composed of two large loops along Cathedral Creek. The left-hand loop features a large meadow and a few open sites. Keep reading
The right-hand loop has a dense Aspen and spruce (including Blue) forest and a more rustic feel. John Charles Fremont's winter camp is nearby. He attempted an ill-fated expedition across the Rocky Mountains for a transcontinental railroad route in late 1848. All sites are first come, first served and cannot be reserved. No trash service or receptacles. Please pack out all garbage. There is ample fishing in Embargo Creek and hiking/horseback riding/mountain biking on Cathedral Creek Trail #794, Embargo Trail #792 and Fremont's Camp Trail #885. Motorcycles may use both Cathedral and Embargo Trails. ATVs are not allowed on the trails.
Facilities
Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (719) 657-3321.
What the agency tells you
Seasons of Use: - Open Year-Round but may be inaccessible due to snow levels or spring road closures.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 22
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek, Meadow
- Biking
- Hiking
- Mountain biking
- Picnicking
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 18:54 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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
recreation.gov availability, read 18:54 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
22 sites
All 22 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. 22 of the 22 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| CATHEDRAL | 01 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| CATHEDRAL | 02 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| CATHEDRAL | 03 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| CATHEDRAL | 04 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| CATHEDRAL | 05 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| CATHEDRAL | 06 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| CATHEDRAL | 07 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| CATHEDRAL | 08 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| CATHEDRAL | 09 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| CATHEDRAL | 10 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| CATHEDRAL | 11 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| CATHEDRAL | 12 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| CATHEDRAL | 13 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| CATHEDRAL | 14 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| CATHEDRAL | 15 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| CATHEDRAL | 16 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| CATHEDRAL | 17 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| CATHEDRAL | 18 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| CATHEDRAL | 19 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| CATHEDRAL | 20 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| CATHEDRAL | 21 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| CATHEDRAL | 22 | standard nonelectric | $10 |