Cimarrona (CO)
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- A night
- $28From, per site
- Sites
- 21All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 1Opens May 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
This location is available on a first-come, first-served basis only. Visitors are required to physically arrive at the campground to purchase and claim a site. Once on-site, you may be able to pay for your campsite(s) by scanning a QR code using the Recreation.gov mobile app, and the Scan and Pay feature. If this option is available, you will need to first download the free Recreation.gov mobile app https://www.recreation.gov/mobile-app prior to your arrival as some remote areas have limited or no cellular service. Keep reading
Facilities
Cimarrona Campground is located next to Cimarrona Creek with views of the meadow and Williams Reservior to the south. The campground has 21 sites. There are both sunny and shady sites to choose from as well as a few sites that can handle large-sized RVs. It’s only a short walk to fish in the creek. The campground is adjacent to the Cimarrona Trailhead. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.
What the agency tells you
Dispersed camping is not allowed within 300 yards of the campground.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 21
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek, Meadow
- Fall color · reported 8 days ago, 33 km away
- Patchy color
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
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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, $28 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
22 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 21 mapped sitesAll 22 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. 21 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.
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.
| Cimarrona | 01 | standard nonelectric | 137 ft | 851 ft | $28 |
| Cimarrona | 02 | standard nonelectric | 137 ft | 872 ft | $28 |
| Cimarrona | 03 | standard nonelectric | 175 ft | 703 ft | $28 |
| Cimarrona | 04 - Host | host pad | 814 ft | ||
| Cimarrona | 05 | standard nonelectric | 129 ft | 550 ftCimarrona Creek | $28 |
| Cimarrona | 06 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 415 ft | $28 |
| Cimarrona | 07 | standard nonelectric | 105 ft | 434 ftCimarrona Creek | $28 |
| Cimarrona | 08 | standard nonelectric | 96 ft | 251 ftCimarrona Creek | $28 |
| Cimarrona | 09 | standard nonelectric | 96 ft | 316 ftCimarrona Creek | $28 |
| Cimarrona | 10 | standard nonelectric | 108 ft | 169 ftCimarrona Creek | $28 |
| Cimarrona | 11 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 115 ftCimarrona Creek | $28 |
| Cimarrona | 12 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 186 ftCimarrona Creek | $28 |
| Cimarrona | 13 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 261 ft | $28 |
| Cimarrona | 14 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 322 ft | $28 |
| Cimarrona | 15 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 236 ft | $28 |
| Cimarrona | 16 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 167 ft | $28 |
| Cimarrona | 17 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 234 ft | $28 |
| Cimarrona | 18 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 311 ft | $28 |
| Cimarrona | 19 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 380 ft | $28 |
| Cimarrona | 20 | standard nonelectric | 79 ft | 455 ft | $28 |
| Cimarrona | 21 | standard nonelectric | 145 ft | 553 ft | $28 |
| Scan and Pay | Standard | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 425 ft | $28 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Piedra, CO
Typical weather
Typical May night 28°F, day 62°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 28°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
Cimarrona (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 →