Dumont Campground
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:40 UTC
- A night
- $26When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 22In the agency’s record
- Season
- – October 1Closes October 1. No opening date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
With spectacular scenery and lake access, Dumont Campground is a paradise for birders, wildflower seekers, fishermen and outdoor enthusiasts. The area borders the Continental Divide and sits atop the Park Range at 9,400 ft in Northwest Colorado, offering views of several other mountain ranges. The facility is comprised of both a small campground and day-use area. Campsites are private and roomy, and most have clear views of lush alpine meadows. Campers also have the convenience of three restrooms. Keep reading
The 50-acre Dumont Lake is surrounded by a spruce-fir forest and alpine meadow that boasts colorful wildflowers in warmer months. It sits near the base of Rabbit Ears Peak in the Routt National Forest.With spectacular scenery and lake access, Dumont Campground is a paradise for birders, wildflower seekers, fly fishermen and outdoor enthusiasts. The area borders the Continental Divide and sits atop the Park Range in north central Colorado, offering views of several other Rocky Mountain ranges.
Recreation
The area offers spin and fly fishing for trout in the lake and stream, as well as access to hiking, backpacking and mountain biking on the many nearby dirt roads and trails. Campers can reach the two-mile Rabbit Ears Trail from the facility, and the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail nearby. Rock climbers can also find routes in the area.
Facilities
The facility is comprised of both a small campground and day-use area. Campsites are private and roomy, and most have clear views of the alpine meadow around the lake. Campers also have the convenience of three restrooms. Dumont Lake is located at the picnic area, which a short walk away from the campground. The lake is restricted to electric motors or hand-propelled boats only.
Natural Features
The 50-acre Dumont Lake is surrounded by a spruce-fir forest and alpine meadow that boasts colorful wildflowers in warmer months. It sits near the base of Rabbit Ears Peak in the Routt National Forest. The Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland encompass nearly three million acres from central and northeastern Wyoming to north-central Colorado. Black bear, bobcat, coyote, elk, mule deer and moose are just some of the many animals that inhabit these rich and diverse lands. Dumont Lake is particularly known for its birding opportunities.
Nearby Attractions
The closest town is Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Many more outdoor opportunities exist in the surrounding national forests and grasslands, including hiking, biking, camping, horseback riding, off-road vehicle riding, fishing, hunting, sightseeing and winter sports.
What the agency tells you
Campground may be subject to late opening of the reservation season due to heavy snow conditions
This is a high elevation facility; please use caution when traveling from lower elevations
Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing organisms by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 22
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek, Meadow
- Biking
- Boating
- Climbing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:40 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 10
What you actually pay
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 · 4
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Dumont Campground closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 150 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Deer Creek CampgroundPike National Forest · 84 mi · 4 sites
- DexterSan Isabel National Forest · 92 mi · 4 sites
- Osprey (CO)Pike National Forest · 106 mi · 13 sites
- OuzelPike National Forest · 107 mi · 13 sites
recreation.gov availability, read 16:40 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
22 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 19 mapped sitesAll 22 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 19 of the 22 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 21 of the 22 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.
| DUMONT | 001 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| DUMONT | 002 | standard nonelectric | 463 ft | 978 ftMuddy Creek | 847 ft | $26 |
| DUMONT | 003 | type not stated | ||||
| DUMONT | 004 | standard nonelectric | 79 ft | 1,587 ftMuddy Creek | 1,022 ft | $26 |
| DUMONT | 005 | standard nonelectric | 79 ft | 1,594 ftMuddy Creek | 963 ft | $26 |
| DUMONT | 006 | standard nonelectric | $26 | |||
| DUMONT | 007 | standard nonelectric | 210 ft | 1,632 ftMuddy Creek | 780 ft | $26 |
| DUMONT | 008 | standard nonelectric | 214 ft | 1,432 ftMuddy Creek | 377 ft | $26 |
| DUMONT | 009 | standard nonelectric | 155 ft | 1,320 ft | 230 ft | $26 |
| DUMONT | 010 | standard nonelectric | 126 ft | 1,170 ft | 162 ft | $26 |
| DUMONT | 011 | standard nonelectric | 78 ft | 987 ft | 159 ft | $26 |
| DUMONT | 012 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 948 ft | 176 ft | $26 |
| DUMONT | 013 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 918 ft | 205 ft | $26 |
| DUMONT | 014 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | 745 ftMuddy Creek | 407 ft | $26 |
| DUMONT | 015 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | 746 ftMuddy Creek | 402 ft | $26 |
| DUMONT | 016 | standard nonelectric | 163 ft | 1,075 ftMuddy Creek | 183 ft | $26 |
| DUMONT | 017 | standard nonelectric | 126 ft | 1,116 ft | 42 ft | $26 |
| DUMONT | 018 | standard nonelectric | 111 ft | 950 ftMuddy Creek | 330 ft | $26 |
| DUMONT | 019 | standard nonelectric | 111 ft | 1,025 ftMuddy Creek | 384 ft | $26 |
| DUMONT | 020 | standard nonelectric | 19 ft | 1,277 ftMuddy Creek | 404 ft | $26 |
| DUMONT | 021 | standard nonelectric | 19 ft | 1,285 ftMuddy Creek | 393 ft | $26 |
| DUMONT | 022 | standard nonelectric | 200 ft | 1,431 ftMuddy Creek | 597 ft | $26 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Meadows Campground (CO)Routt National Forest · 5.6 mi
Hidden Lakes CampgroundRoutt National Forest · 7.1 miGranite CampgroundRoutt National Forest · 7.4 mi
Summit Lake CampgroundRoutt National Forest · 10 mi
Grizzly Creek Guard Station11 mi
Dry Lake Campground (CO)Routt National Forest · 12 miFrom Steamboat Springs, Colorado, travel 22 miles southeast on U.S. Highway 40/Rabbit Ears Pass. Turn left on Forest Road 315 at the Dumont Campground sign. The campground is located about a mile from the highway.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Steamboat Springs, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 22°F, day 51°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 22°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 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
Dumont 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 →