Cobbett Lake
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $22–$24Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 20All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Cobbett Lake Campground is located on Colorado's Grand Mesa, in the Land O' Lakes area, which is home to more than 300 lakes. Visitors enjoy the area for its great fishing, canoeing and hiking opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Cobbett Lake is open to non-motorized watercraft, making it a perfect place for canoeing and fishing. Anglers cast for rainbow, brook and cutthroat trout. Numerous additional lakes in the area provide more fishing and canoeing opportunities, as well as beautiful scenery. A variety of hiking trails, including the Cobbett Lake Trail and Grand Mesa Discovery Trail begin nearby. Several off-road vehicle trails are in the surrounding area. Grand Mesa Visitor Center is within walking distance at Island Lake. The center offers interpretive exhibits, a bookstore and a high-altitude wildflower garden containing more than 50 native species.
Facilities
The campground offers single-family campsites, each equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided.
Natural Features
The campground is situated along the Grand Mesa National Scenic and Historic Byway on the shore of Cobbett Lake, at an elevation of 10,300 feet. A dense grove of spruce trees covers the campground, offering shade in nearly every site. A variety of wildlife, including deer and elk, frequents the area.
Nearby Attractions
The Grand Mesa National Scenic and Historic Byway offers 63 miles of scenic driving as it climbs from the rugged canyon floor, up to the forested mesa tops, at 11,000 feet. The road passes sparkling lakes and meadows bursting with wildflowers. Many trailheads are found along the byway. The town of Cedaredge is 15 miles from the campground. It is home to Pioneer Town, a 19th Century village with frontier museums and more than 20 structures. A historic schoolhouse, blacksmith shop, saloon and jail can be visited there. Cedaredge's "Applefest" festival is held annually in October. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (928) 537-8888.
What the agency tells you
Standard Single Family sites: Recreation Use Fee allows ONE camping unit ONLY.
Late Arrivals: campers are not considered a "no-show" until 24 hours after arrival date check in time. Our policy is that your site will not be released before that.
FIRST COME FIRST SERVE sites must be booked in person. DO NOT call to determine availability, as they are only available on-site.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Extra Vehicles: Cannot be paid for in advance - upon arrival coordinate with the host for payment and where to park.
Mosquitoes are abundant in the area; bring repellent
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.
Click here for more information on the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests
Opening and closing dates are weather permitting: please call 928-537-8888 for more information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 20
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…with a picnic table and campfire ring. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…table and campfire ring. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Natural Features…”
- Stay limit
- 16 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Meadow
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 276th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 11 days ago, 7.6 km away
- Peak 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
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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $22–$24 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
20 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 20 mapped sitesAll 20 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. 20 of the 20 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.
| COBBETT LAKE | 001 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 64 ft | 136 ft | $22–$24 |
| COBBETT LAKE | 002 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 64 ft | 141 ft | $22–$24 |
| COBBETT LAKE | 003 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 74 ft | 216 ft | $22–$24 |
| COBBETT LAKE | 004 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 38 ft | 241 ft | $22–$24 |
| COBBETT LAKE | 005 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 38 ft | 212 ft | $22–$24 |
| COBBETT LAKE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 29 ft | 185 ft | $22–$24 |
| COBBETT LAKE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 29 ft | 157 ft | $22–$24 |
| COBBETT LAKE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 80 ft | 173 ft | $22–$24 |
| COBBETT LAKE | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 65 ft | 251 ft | $22–$24 |
| COBBETT LAKE | 010 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 20 ft | 314 ft | $22–$24 |
| COBBETT LAKE | 011 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 20 ft | 332 ft | $22–$24 |
| COBBETT LAKE | 012 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 108 ft | 477 ft | $22–$24 |
| COBBETT LAKE | 013 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 41 ft | 359 ft | $22–$24 |
| COBBETT LAKE | 014 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 41 ft | 378 ft | $22–$24 |
| COBBETT LAKE | 015 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 64 ft | 285 ft | $22–$24 |
| COBBETT LAKE | 016 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 43 ft | 352 ft | $22–$24 |
| COBBETT LAKE | 017 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 63 ft | 356 ft | $22–$24 |
| COBBETT LAKE | 018 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 43 ft | 342 ft | $22–$24 |
| COBBETT LAKE | 019 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 72 ft | 238 ft | $22–$24 |
| COBBETT LAKE | 020 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 72 ft | 176 ft | $22–$24 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Island Lake CampgroundGrand Mesa National Forest · 1.6 miCrag Crest Campground - Grand Valley RDGrand Mesa National Forest · 2.5 miFrom Cedaredge, travel north on Highway 65 approximately 15 miles. Just past the Grand Mesa Visitor Center, watch for the campground sign and turnoff road to the right.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cedaredge, CO
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
Cobbett Lake 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 →