Green Ridge
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $29–$88Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 7472 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
Green Ridge Campground is located on beautiful Shadow Mountain Reservoir, southwest of Grand Lake in north central Colorado. Visitors enjoy the area for its great boating, fishing and hiking opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Shadow Mountain Lake is part of the Arapaho National Recreation Area. It offers boating, swimming and fishing. Anglers cast for kokanee salmon, as well as rainbow, brown, mackinaw and cutthroat trout. A boat ramp and dock are located within the campground. The Colorado River can also be accessed from the campground. National Fishing Week is held annually the first week of June. Numerous hiking and horseback riding trails are in the vicinity, including the East Shore Trail (which is part of the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail), Roaring Fork Trail and Monarch Lake Trail.
Facilities
The campground offers 79 non-electric, single-family sites, as well as one double and one triple capacity campsite. A single site may hold up to eight people. Picnic tables, campfire rings and tent pads are provided, as are flush and vault toilets and drinking water. Firewood may be gathered in the forest or purchased from the host.
Natural Features
The campground is situated between the southern shore of Shadow Mountain Lake and the banks of the Colorado River, at an elevation of approximately 8,300 feet. Afternoon thunderstorms should be expected during the summer months. Due to the mountain pine beetle infestation and consequent removal of hazardous trees, there is little to no shade available in the campground. Since 2008, 3,000 pine seedlings have been planted to remedy the problem in the future.
Nearby Attractions
Rocky Mountain National Park's west entrance is located north of Grand Lake. With lush valleys and craggy peaks reaching elevations higher than 14,000 feet, visitors are provided opportunities for countless breathtaking experiences and adventures. Scenic driving, hiking, backpacking, fishing, horseback riding and wildlife viewing are popular activities in the park. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 529-0578.
Charges & Cancellations
Modifications for this campground must be made through Recreation.gov or by calling the call center at 1-877-444-6777 PRIOR to your reservation start date. Customers and contact center agents cannot modify reservations on or after the check-in date.
What the agency tells you
No RV water connections are available.
This is bear country! For bear and human safety, keep a clean campsite and do not place food or other attractants in your tent. For more information about visiting bear country, contact Colorado Parks and Wildlife at http://wildlife.state.co.us
Utility hookups are not available
Everything else this campground posts · 12
Boats are subject to inspection to prevent the spread of zebra and quagga mussels
A additional fee will be charged for admission to the Arapaho National Recreation Area; fees are $5 a day, $10 for three days, $15 a week or $30 per year, and can be purchased from the Forest Service office or local vendors
You must stay in the campsite you reserved. Site-swapping is not allowed.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/arp for more information on the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests
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.
All campsites must be occupied within 26 hours of the beginning of the reservation. If not present the site will be rented by first come first serve basis.
EXTRA VEHICLE FEES: One vehicle is included in your reservation. Any additional vehicles will be charged $8.00 per vehicle per night and will be collected by the camp host if you did not pay for the Extra Vehicle Add On. One vehicle consists of one camper being towed by vehicle, or any other vehicle towed behind camper. One van or one truck with camper attached counts as one vehicle. Extra vehicles must fit on the parking spur at your site.
Fire Restrictions: Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed.
Tents must fit on pads provided. RVs, trailers or other vehicles must fit on the parking spur. Driving or parking off road is not permitted. The parking length ranges from 25' - 35'.
Pets must be on a hand-held leash.
Modifications for this campground must be made through Recreation.gov PRIOR to your reservation start date. Customers and contact center agents cannot modify reservations on or after the check-in date.
Check-Out is at 12 P.M. Check-In is at 2 P.M.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 74 · 6 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 47 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…tent pads are provided, as are flush and vault toilets and drinking water. Firewood may be gathered in the…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…as are flush and vault toilets and drinking water. Firewood may be gathered in the forest or…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 436th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 22 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 72 of the 74 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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 · 17
What you actually pay
“Any additional vehicles will be charged $8.00 per vehicle per night and will be collected by the camp host if you did not pay for the Extra Vehicle Add On.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $29–$88 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.
“Modifications for this campground must be made through Recreation.gov or by calling the call center at 1-877-444-6777 PRIOR to your reservation start date. Customers and contact center agents cannot modify reservations on or after the check-in date.” · this campground’s own 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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
76 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 72 mapped sitesAll 76 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 74 of the 76 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. 74 of the 76 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.
| GR | host | host pad | $29 | ||||
| GR | XXX | unnamed record | $29 | ||||
| Loop A | 001 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 62 ft | 926 ft | 380 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 002 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 44 ft | 922 ft | 386 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 003 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 44 ft | 967 ft | 344 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 004 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 62 ft | 986 ft | 318 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 005 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 66 ft | 1,067 ft | 237 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 66 ft | 1,058 ft | 257 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 007 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 69 ft | 1,268 ft | 129 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 008 | type not stated | 32 ft | 1,209 ft | 98 ft | $29 | |
| Loop A | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 69 ft | 1,334 ft | 108 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 70 ft | 1,396 ft | 117 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 011 | type not stated | 1,387 ft | 83 ft | $29 | ||
| Loop A | 012 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 76 ft | 1,497 ft | 193 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 013 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 73 ft | 1,493 ft | 182 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 014 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 73 ft | 1,556 ft | 189 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 015 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 45 ft | 1,694 ft | 88 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 016 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 53 ft | 1,729 ft | 135 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 017 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 29 ft | 1,797 ft | 196 ft | $29–$88 |
| Loop A | 018 | tent only nonelectric | 102 ft | 1,975 ft | 247 ft | $29–$88 | |
| Loop A | 020 | tent only nonelectric | 64 ft | 2,092 ft | 322 ft | $29–$88 | |
| Loop A | 021 | tent only nonelectric | 64 ft | 2,071 ft | 272 ft | $29–$88 | |
| Loop A | 022 | tent only nonelectric | 37 ft | 1,886 ft | 287 ft | $29–$88 | |
| Loop A | 023 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 37 ft | 1,872 ft | 285 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 024 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 29 ft | 1,826 ft | 225 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 025 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 48 ft | 1,741 ft | 133 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 026 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 45 ft | 1,659 ft | 51 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 028 | rv nonelectric | 41 ft | 38 ft | 1,546 ft | 64 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 029 | rv nonelectric | 41 ft | 73 ft | 1,497 ft | 131 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 030 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 38 ft | 1,519 ft | 91 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 031 | rv nonelectric | 45 ft | 35 ft | 1,364 ft | 265 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 032 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 51 ft | 1,339 ft | 188 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 033 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 35 ft | 1,331 ft | 281 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 034 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 39 ft | 1,289 ft | 194 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 035 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 68 ft | 1,267 ft | 299 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 036 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 39 ft | 1,258 ft | 219 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 037 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 79 ft | 1,187 ft | 298 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 038 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 69 ft | 1,192 ft | 223 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 039 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 101 ft | 1,094 ft | 262 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 040 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 79 ft | 939 ft | 398 ft | $29 |
| Loop A | 041 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 79 ft | 980 ft | 405 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 042 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 69 ft | 814 ft | 424 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 043 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 46 ft | 831 ft | 408 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 044 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 58 ft | 737 ft | 330 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 045 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 46 ft | 808 ft | 371 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 046 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 58 ft | 751 ft | 314 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 047 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 78 ft | 642 ft | 196 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 048 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 73 ft | 719 ft | 258 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 049 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 83 ft | 598 ft | 121 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 050 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 58 ft | 646 ft | 155 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 051 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 58 ft | 611 ft | 127 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 052 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 81 ft | 502 ft | 137 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 053 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 78 ft | 366 ft | 180 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 054-56 | tent only nonelectric | 91 ft | 456 ft | 213 ft | $29–$88 | |
| Loop B | 057 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 78 ft | 324 ft | 258 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 058 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 90 ft | 369 ft | 265 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 059 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 114 ft | 225 ft | 189 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 060 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 133 ft | 101 ft | 146 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 061 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 63 ft | 268 ft | 236 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 062 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 59 ft | 331 ft | 277 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 063 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 61 ft | 339 ft | 236 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 064 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 49 ft | 389 ft | 310 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 065 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 51 ft | 393 ft | 265 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 066 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 49 ft | 431 ft | 327 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 067 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 54 ft | 474 ft | 348 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 068 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 51 ft | 430 ft | 285 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 069 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 24 ft | 516 ft | 357 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 070 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 46 ft | 469 ft | 310 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 071 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 46 ft | 479 ft | 324 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 072 | rv nonelectric | 33 ft | 24 ft | 520 ft | 361 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 073 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 60 ft | 464 ft | 330 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 074 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 49 ft | 520 ft | 346 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 075 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 59 ft | 467 ft | 304 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 076 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 49 ft | 523 ft | 303 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 077 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 81 ft | 563 ft | 209 ft | $29 |
| Loop B | 078 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 91 ft | 608 ft | 177 ft | $29 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night: 1 it names a host pad and 1 it types MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 76 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
AA Bar Ranch (AA Barn) Group Picnic SiteArapaho National Recreation Area · 0.4 mi
Cutthroat Bay GroupArapaho National Recreation Area · 1.8 mi
Stillwater (Colorado)Arapaho National Recreation Area · 3.0 miSunset Point CampgroundArapaho National Recreation Area · 4.5 mi
Willow Creek GroupArapaho National Recreation Area · 7.2 mi
Arapaho BayArapaho National Recreation Area · 7.6 miFrom the intersection of U.S. Highways 40 and 34 in Granby, travel north for 12 miles on Highway 34 to County Road 66 and go east one mile. Look for the Green Ridge Complex sign.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Grand Lake, 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
Green Ridge 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 →