Cordova Pass
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 41 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 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
3 campsites are located in this campground Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (719) 489-2034.
What the agency tells you
This Campground has a limit of 8 people; either 2 tents and 2 vehicles OR 1 RV in each campsite.
Check In is 2:00pm, Check Out is 12:00 pm (noon)
Two vehicles included in the camping fee. $10 for additional vehicles.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
No drinking water is available at this campground.
Be Bear Aware: store all food in hard top containers or your vehicle at all times.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 4
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Around the campground
- Fall color · reported 9 days ago, 7.4 km away
- Patchy color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 1 of the 4 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
“$10 for additional vehicles.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $15 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
4 sites · the site map
All 4 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. 1 of the 4 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 2 | type not stated | ||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 3 | type not stated | ||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 4 | type not stated | ||
| Scan and Pay | Standard | standard nonelectric | 2,149 ft | $15 |
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 phone number
Where it is
Bear Lake Campground (CO)San Isabel National Forest · 6.5 mi
Blue Lake Campground - San Isabel NF (CO)San Isabel National Forest · 6.7 mi
Purgatoire CampgroundSan Isabel National Forest · 8.1 miZapata Falls CampgroundSan Luis Valley Field Office · 35 mi
Zapata Falls CampgroundSan Luis Valley Field Office · 37 mi
Pinon Flats CampgroundGreat Sand Dunes National Park · 38 miThe weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for La Veta, 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
Cordova Pass 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 →