Colorado Campground
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $28–$38Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 79All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 26 – September 4Open May 26 through September 4
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Colorado Campground is a favorite family destination near Manitou Lake Picnic Area north of the town of Woodland Park. A short trail leads to the lovely lake, where visitors enjoy fishing, bird watching and canoeing. Keep reading
Recreation
Manitou Lake offers trout fishing and lakeside picnicking. Canoeing on the small lake is also a popular activity. The Centennial Bike Trail, a paved, accessible recreation trail, connects Colorado Campground to Manitou Lake Picnic Area and South Meadows Campground. The trail is popular among hikers, roller bladers and bicyclists. The nearby Rainbow Falls OHV Trail System and North Divide OHV Trail System are recommended for off-road vehicle enthusiasts.
Facilities
The campground offers single and double-family campsites. Picnic tables and campfire rings are provided, as are vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection. The road is paved and parking spurs are gravel. Campfire programs are held at the campground's amphitheater on most Saturday evenings.
Natural Features
The campground is situated at 7,800 feet in a ponderosa pine forest near the 5-acre Manitou Lake. The campground lies in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, due north of Pikes Peak. Pikes Peak summit reaches an elevation of 14,115 feet and is America's easternmost peak over 14,000 feet.
Nearby Attractions
Colorado Springs is about 25 miles southeast of the campground and offers many services. Garden of the Gods is a popular attraction just outside of town. This free park offers hiking trails, rock climbing routes, a visitor center and cafe. Pikes Peak lies west of Manitou Springs, which is about 20 miles from the campground. Visitors can hike, or drive to the summit of this beautiful mountain. The town of Woodland Park, located 6 miles south of Colorado Campground, offers gas, groceries, dining and shopping.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee including tax and applicable add-on for a campsite. Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee. No-Shows A no-show visitor is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. Staff will hold a campsite until check-out time on the day following the arrival date. No-shows are assessed $20.00 service fee and forfeit the first night's rate, taxes and applicable add-on for a campsite. Refunds Visitors may submit a refund request through their Recreation.gov profile within 7 days of the end date of their reservation. Refunds will not be issued after the 7 days has ended. Refunds for debit or credit card payments will be issued as a credit to the original bank or credit card used to pay. For check or cash purchases, Recreation.gov will mail a Treasury check for refunds of cash, check, or money order payments to the address associated with the reservation. Treasury check refunds may take up to 6-8 weeks to arrive. In the event of an emergency closure, the Recreation.gov team or facility manager will refund all fees and will attempt to notify you using the contact information within the Recreation.gov visitor profile.
What the agency tells you
• Check-In time is 2 p.m. and check-out time is 12 p.m. • SPECIAL NOTE: Colorado State regulations prohibit attaching hoses to hydrants to fill RV’s. Please come prepared. • For cancellations before arrival, call reservations at 877-444-6777 (Toll-Free), 606-515-6777 (International), or 877-833-6777 (TDD) from 10 a.m. -- 12 p.m. (Eastern Time Zone) • Please check-in with host upon arrival. • RV or trailers over 36 feet will have a very tough time making it through the campground because of tight corners and trees. • All vehicles including campers must fit in parking spur (not on grass) without blocking road. There is NO overflow parking in this campground. • Do not feed the wildlife. This includes bird feeders of any kind. • Don’t Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information. • Maximum 14-day stay limit within 30-day period. • 10 mph speed limit in all campgrounds and day use areas. • Discharging any weapon is prohibited including paintballs, bow & arrow, BB guns, airsoft guns. Fireworks and explosives are prohibited. Target shooting is prohibited. • Thunderstorms are common; take extra precautions for lightning. • Be bear aware; keep all food out of sight in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from area after eating. • This is a high elevation facility; please use caution when traveling from lower elevations. • This facility has first-come, first-served sites, which must be occupied the first night. • No hookups available. • No horses allowed. • ATVs prohibited. • Click here for more information on Pike and San Isabel National Forests. • USE OF DRONES PROHIBITED.
Two vehicles or one RV/Trailer plus tow vehicle per site is included in the camping fee. $11.00/night for a third vehicle.
Firewood is available for sale at the Host site for $10.00/bundle.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
$11.00 fee for day use if not camping overnight. Must vacate campground no later than 5:00PM and only use First Come First Serve Camp Sites.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 79
- Hookups
- 2 electric
- Longest rig
- 100 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and campfire rings are provided, as are vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection. The road is…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…are provided, as are vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection. The road is paved and parking…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Meadow
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 502nd darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 10 days ago, 25 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, $28–$38 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.
“Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee including tax and applicable add-on for a cam…” · this campground’s own no-show 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
81 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 79 mapped sitesAll 81 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. 79 of the 81 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.
| COLO | 001 - HOST | host pad | 30 ft | 591 ft | ||
| COLO | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 64 ft | 686 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 57 ft | 717 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 9 ft | 754 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 9 ft | 745 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 006 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 17 ft | 831 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 17 ft | 814 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 95 ft | 940 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 72 ft | 1,032 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 92 ft | 1,034 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 39 ft | 1,093 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 39 ft | 1,104 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 013 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 30 ft | 1,124 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 30 ft | 1,106 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 015 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 36 ft | 1,106 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 016 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 63 ft | 1,138 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 017 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 68 ft | 1,083 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 018 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 12 ft | 1,130 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 019 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 12 ft | 1,141 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 020 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 46 ft | 1,190 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 021 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 46 ft | 1,181 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 022 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 48 ft | 1,195 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 023 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 44 ft | 1,194 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 024 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 25 ft | 1,184 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 025 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 25 ft | 1,197 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 026 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 71 ft | 1,221 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 027 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 30 ft | 1,212 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 028 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 103 ft | 1,336 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 029 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 30 ft | 1,226 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 030 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 103 ft | 1,363 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 031 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 120 ft | 1,255 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 032 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 44 ft | 1,259 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 033 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 29 ft | 1,243 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 034 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 29 ft | 1,248 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 035 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 34 ft | 1,186 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 036 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 34 ft | 1,170 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 037 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 99 ft | 1,101 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 038 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 29 ft | 957 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 039 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 29 ft | 980 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 040 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 33 ft | 926 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 041 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 84 ft | 830 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 042 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 84 ft | 774 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 043 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 53 ft | 680 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 044 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 53 ft | 730 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 045 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 49 ft | 793 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 046 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 49 ft | 765 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 047 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 39 ft | 809 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 048 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 39 ft | 785 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 049 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 13 ft | 787 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 050 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 13 ft | 799 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 051 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 58 ft | 793 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 052 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 14 ft | 760 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 053 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 14 ft | 765 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 054 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 68 ft | 711 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 055 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 61 ft | 710 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 056 | standard electric | 80 ft | 68 ft | 637 ft | $38 |
| COLO | 057 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 68 ft | 606 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 058 | standard electric | 30 ft | 28 ft | 568 ft | $38 |
| COLO | 059 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 28 ft | 584 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 060 - HOST | host pad | 30 ft | 564 ft | ||
| COLO | 061 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 146 ft | 898 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 062 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 37 ft | 894 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 063 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 37 ft | 882 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 064 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 32 ft | 898 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 065 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 22 ft | 880 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 066 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 22 ft | 882 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 067 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 68 ft | 839 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 068 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 48 ft | 853 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 069 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 47 ft | 847 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 070 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 47 ft | 865 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 071 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 74 ft | 881 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 072 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 80 ft | 941 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 073 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 15 ft | 1,027 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 074 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 15 ft | 1,012 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 075 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 19 ft | 1,057 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 076 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 19 ft | 1,049 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 077 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 46 ft | 1,058 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 078 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 32 ft | 1,028 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 079 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 32 ft | 1,015 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 080 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 65 ft | 923 ft | $28 |
| COLO | 081 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 65 ft | 862 ft | $28 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It names them host pads. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 81 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Painted RocksPike National Forest · 0.7 mi
Pike CommunityPike National Forest · 1.0 mi
South Meadows - Pike San Isabel NF (CO)Pike National Forest · 1.0 mi
South Meadows CampgroundPike National Forest · 1.1 mi
Red Rocks Group CampgroundPike National Forest · 2.6 miSpringdalePike National Forest · 6.8 miFrom the I-25 and Highway 24 intersection in Colorado Springs, travel west on Highway 24 for about 18 miles to the intersection with Highway 67 in Woodland Park. Turn right (north) on Highway 67 and drive about 6.7 miles to Colorado Campground. The campground is on the right side of the road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Woodland Park, CO
Typical weather
Typical May night 39°F, day 68°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 39°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Colorado Campground is in Colorado’s 7th congressional district. Its representative, Brittany Pettersen (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →