Crosho Lake Recreation Area
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
NOTE: Crosho Lake stays open until the snow makes it unreachable by vehicle, but is open to snowmobiles during the winter months. Crosho Lake is a popular spot to canoe, kayak, wade, camp and fish for greylings and trout. Non-motorized boats only. This recreation area hosts undeveloped dispersed camping opportunities free of charge. There is one vault toilet, however, no picnic tables, fire grates, or water. Parking for day use is very limited. Access is seasonally generally from early June through September/Early October weather dependent and can only be reached via snowmobile during the winter months. CAUTION: Road to Crosho Lake and Allen Basin requires high clearance vehicles and is a rough road.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…free of charge. There is one vault toilet, however, no picnic tables, fire grates, or water.…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Bear Lake CampgroundRoutt National Forest · 8.6 miHorseshoe CampgroundRoutt National Forest · 9.9 miCold Springs CampgroundRoutt National Forest · 10 miHimes Peak CampgroundWhite River National Forest · 15 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Phippsburg, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 25°F, day 55°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 7°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 more
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
Crosho Lake Recreation Area 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 →