U.S. Forest Service · Uncompahgre National Forest · CO
Divide Forks Campground - Grand Valley RD
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- A night
- $14From, per site
- Season
- May 25Opens May 25. No closing date published.
8,760 ftElevation
3,972 ftWater · La Fair Creek
24.4 miS of Redlands, CO
30%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 206th darkest of 522 in CO
Opens May 25. No closing date published.Today
The place
the agency’s own description
In the agency’s own words
The Divide Forks Campground sits at 9200-foot elevation. There are 11 campsites with a maximum spur length is 20 feet.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $14 with nothing added. 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.
BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
A night$14Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 9
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night, from$14
Night per camping unit$14
Firewood bundle$10
Day for day use/picnic .$6
If occupying a campsite for day use/picnic, the $6 per day fee is applicable from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m..
If still occupying a campsite after 2 p.m., the $14 fee for per night camping unit will apply, less any day use fees already paid.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$14
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$28
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($14), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
Sign price: Derived by CAMPANAC from the U.S. Forest Service fee record: a stated per-night amount only · Sep 7, 2026
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
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Oak CabinUncompahgre National Forest · 2.5 miDominguez CampgroundDominguez/Escalante National Conservation Area · 8.6 miMud Springs CampgroundGrand Junction Field Office · 16 miPotholes Recreation SiteDominguez/Escalante National Conservation Area · 20 miMiracle Rock Rec SiteGrand Junction Field Office · 23 mi
Aspen Leaf Cabin (Uncompahgre National Forest, Co)Uncompahgre National Forest · 2.5 miOak CabinUncompahgre National Forest · 2.5 miDominguez CampgroundDominguez/Escalante National Conservation Area · 8.6 miMud Springs CampgroundGrand Junction Field Office · 16 miPotholes Recreation SiteDominguez/Escalante National Conservation Area · 20 miMiracle Rock Rec SiteGrand Junction Field Office · 23 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Tonight32°Clear
Saturday56°Sunny
Saturday Night36°Partly Cloudy2% rain
Sunday52°Partly Sunny14% rain
NWS forecast for Redlands, CO
Source: National Weather Service, GJT forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
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.
Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026
Who answers for this land
Divide Forks Campground - Grand Valley RD 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: Today falls inside the season the agency publishes, and it has posted nothing else. That reading is ours. The U.S. Forest Service’s own database, though, flags it not open with no reason or date; the flag is named under How we know all this.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 16, 2026
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.