Geneva Park Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $27From, per site
- Sites
- 26All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
At an elevation of 9,813 feet, Geneva Park Campground offers cooler temperatures during the hottest of summer months. Along the Guanella Pass Scenic Byway, this campground is near prime spots for wildlife viewing, scenic driving, landscape photography, hiking and accessing roads open to off-highway vehicles. Keep reading
Recreation
Mount Evans Wilderness is directly east of the campground and the Abyss Trailhead, sometimes referred to as the Scott Gomer Trail, is a short drive south of the campground. Burning Bear Trail, just 2 miles south of the campground, is a wonderful trail for hiking and horseback riding.
Facilities
Geneva park has 26 campsites to accommodate both RV and tent camping. Vault toilets, picnic tables and grills are provided. Parking aprons are dirt and the interior road may be rough and bumpy.
Natural Features
The campground sits in a dense stand of lodgepole pine, which limits mountain views. Sites are nicely separated to provide privacy. The Geneva Creek flows past the campground entrance. Pikes Peak is about 67 miles south and is heralded as the easternmost mountain peak over 14,000 feet in the United States.
Nearby Attractions
The drive down Highway 126 from Pine Junction affords magnificent views of the valleys below. Pikes Peak can be seen in the distance and other prominent rock formations present themselves throughout the scenic drive. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (303) 647-2366.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee including tax and applicable add-on for a campsite. Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee. No-Shows A no-show visitor is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. Staff will hold a campsite until check-out time on the day following the arrival date. No-shows are assessed $20.00 service fee and forfeit the first night's rate, taxes and applicable add-on for a campsite. Refunds Visitors may submit a refund request through their Recreation.gov profile within 7 days of the end date of their reservation. Refunds will not be issued after the 7 days has ended. Refunds for debit or credit card payments will be issued as a credit to the original bank or credit card used to pay. For check or cash purchases, Recreation.gov will mail a Treasury check for refunds of cash, check, or money order payments to the address associated with the reservation. Treasury check refunds may take up to 6-8 weeks to arrive. In the event of an emergency closure, the Recreation.gov team or facility manager will refund all fees and will attempt to notify you using the contact information within the Recreation.gov visitor profile.
What the agency tells you
Expect rough road conditions and erosion problems such as potholes and wash-boarding
Be bear aware; keep all food out of sight in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from area after eating
This is a high elevation facility, please use caution when traveling from lower elevations
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Facility has first-come, first-served sites
No water Available
No fireworks or firearms allowed
Limit 2 vehicles or 1 RV per single site; a $11.00/night, fee will be charged for additional vehicles
For more information on Pike and San Isabel National Forests, click here
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
- 26 · 7 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 32 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…to accommodate both RV and tent camping. Vault toilets, picnic tables and grills are provided. Parking…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Biking
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 455th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
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 · 14
What you actually pay
“a $11.00/night, fee will be charged for additional vehicles” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $27 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.
“Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee including tax and applicable add-on for a cam…” · this campground’s own no-show terms
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 · 7
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
26 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 26 mapped sitesAll 26 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 26 of the 26 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. 26 of the 26 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| GENEVA PARK | 1 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 21 ft | 419 ftGeneva Creek | 939 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 10 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 68 ft | 477 ftGeneva Creek | 1,530 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 11 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 21 ft | 550 ftGeneva Creek | 1,662 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 12 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 21 ft | 539 ftGeneva Creek | 1,670 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 13 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 118 ft | 670 ftGeneva Creek | 1,749 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 14 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 54 ft | 778 ftGeneva Creek | 1,786 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 15 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 54 ft | 759 ftGeneva Creek | 1,736 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 16 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 13 ft | 850 ftGeneva Creek | 1,756 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 17 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 17 ft | 835 ftGeneva Creek | 1,739 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 18 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 13 ft | 859 ftGeneva Creek | 1,756 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 19 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 32 ft | 859 ftGeneva Creek | 1,648 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 2 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 48 ft | 470 ftGeneva Creek | 987 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 20 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 25 ft | 874 ftGeneva Creek | 1,637 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 21 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 25 ft | 851 ftGeneva Creek | 1,615 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 22 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 37 ft | 846 ftGeneva Creek | 1,583 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 23 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 91 ft | 785 ftGeneva Creek | 1,492 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 24 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 78 ft | 691 ftGeneva Creek | 1,446 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 25 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 75 ft | 635 ftGeneva Creek | 1,464 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 26 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 75 ft | 572 ftGeneva Creek | 1,397 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 3 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 21 ft | 423 ftGeneva Creek | 960 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 4 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 69 ft | 532 ftGeneva Creek | 1,161 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 5 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 27 ft | 518 ftGeneva Creek | 1,220 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 6 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 27 ft | 538 ftGeneva Creek | 1,244 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 7 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 58 ft | 518 ftGeneva Creek | 1,289 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 8 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 82 ft | 446 ftGeneva Creek | 1,395 ft | $27 |
| GENEVA PARK | 9 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 68 ft | 477 ftGeneva Creek | 1,476 ft | $27 |
25 of 26 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Burning Bear CampgroundPike National Forest · 1.3 miHandcartPike National Forest · 4.9 miHall ValleyPike National Forest · 5.1 mi
Guanella PassArapaho National Forest · 5.9 mi
Timberline CampgroundPike National Forest · 6.8 miKenosha EastPike National Forest · 7.9 miFrom Denver, travel south on Highway 285 through Pine Junction and Bailey. Continue on Highway 285 to the town of Grant, turn right on Park County Road 62 (Geneva Rd) and continue for approximately 5 miles. Make a left on Forest Road 119; the campground will be on your left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Montezuma, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 29°F, day 50°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 12°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
Geneva Park Campground is in Colorado’s 7th congressional district. Its representative, Brittany Pettersen (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →