Denver Creek Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This first come, first served campground is located in the Willow Creek Valley along US Highway 125. The campground is divided into two loops, one on each side of the highway. Willow Creek flows by the west loop. Facilities: There are 22 non-electric sites that will accommodate tents, trailers and RVs. Each site contains a tent pad, fire grate and picnic table. Most campsites lack shade. Additional facilities provided include restrooms, trash service and drinking water. Recreation: Popular activities include fishing in Willow Creek, scenic driving, hiking and wildlife viewing. View a campground map .
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…include restrooms, trash service and drinking water. Recreation: Popular activities include fishing in…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 32 km away
- Peak color
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
Willow Creek GroupArapaho National Recreation Area · 10 mi
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the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Granby, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 27°F, day 55°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 3°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
Denver Creek Campground is in Colorado’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Joe Neguse (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →