Hahns Peak Lake Campground - Medicine-Bow Routt NF (CO)
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $26–$52Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 3726 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Hahns Peak Lake Campground lies on the shore of a small, scenic lake 30 miles north of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Families and outdoor enthusiasts love the abundant hiking, hunting, off highway vehicles, mountain biking and fishing opportunities. With an elevation of 8,500 feet, the campground offers spectacular views of the forested lakeshore, picturesque mountain lake, and iconic views of Hahns Peak, the eastern most point of the Elkhead Mountains. Hahns Peak Lake Campground consists of 23 single unit campsites and 3 double sites for larger groups. Keep reading
The campground is situated in a spruce, pine and fir forest along the shore of the 160-acre Hahns Peak Lake in the Routt National Forest of northwest Colorado. Lupine, Columbine and other colorful wildflowers appear throughout the campground in warmer months.Hahns Peak Lake Campground lies on the shore of a small, scenic lake just 30 miles north of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Families and outdoor enthusiasts love the abundant hiking, mountain biking and fishing opportunities.
Recreation
The lake provides trout fishing on or off shore, as well as boating for non-motorized or electric motor boats only. Hiking, mountain biking and off-road vehicles can be enjoyed on most of the areas trails, including a popular biking loop on the Prospector Trail. The West Side Lake Trail winds for nearly a mile along the lake shore.
Facilities
Hahns Peak Lake Campground consists of 23 single unit campsites and three double sites for the larger groups. The facility is small but campsites are spacious and private.
Natural Features
The campground is situated in a spruce, pine and fir forest along the shore of the 160-acre Hahns Peak Lake in the Routt National Forest of north central Colorado. Lupine and other colorful wildflowers appear throughout the campground in warmer months. 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.
Nearby Attractions
Visitors might also enjoy stopping by Steamboat Lake State Park, only a short drive away, or going into the town of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Many more outdoor opportunities exist in the surrounding national forests and grasslands, including hiking, biking, camping, horseback and 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; call 970-870-2299 for info
This facility may stay open after Labor Day, weather dependent
No vehicles may be left overnight at the boat dock
Everything else this campground posts · 3
This is a high elevation facility; please use caution when traveling from lower elevations
Be bear aware; keep all food out of site in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle
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
- 37
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 68th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 26 of the 37 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.
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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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $26–$52 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.
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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
38 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 17 mapped sitesAll 38 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 2 of the 38 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. 37 of the 38 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.
| Lake | 001 | type not stated | 30 ft | $33.97 | |||
| Lake | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 25 ft | 494 ft | $26–$52 | |
| Lake | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 25 ft | 485 ft | $26–$52 | |
| Lake | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 94 ft | 397 ft | $26–$52 | |
| Lake | 005 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 35 ft | 322 ft | $26–$52 | |
| Lake | 006 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 35 ft | 291 ft | $26–$52 | |
| Lake | 007 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 91 ft | 191 ft | 3,158 ft | $26–$52 |
| Lake | 008 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 91 ft | 101 ft | 3,164 ft | $26–$52 |
| Lake | 009 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 179 ft | 168 ft | $26–$52 | |
| Lake | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $26–$52 | |||
| Lake | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $26–$52 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 001 | type not stated | 616 ft | $33.97 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 010 | type not stated | 229 ft | $33.97 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 011 | type not stated | 431 ft | $33.97 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 012 | type not stated | 1,154 ft | $33.97 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 013 | type not stated | 1,178 ft | $33.97 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 014 | type not stated | 1,242 ft | $33.97 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 015 | type not stated | 1,298 ft | $33.97 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 021 | type not stated | 1,483 ft | $33.97 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 022 | type not stated | 1,368 ft | $33.97 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | 026 | type not stated | 1,230 ft | $33.97 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX | unnamed record | 99 ft | $33.97 | |||
| Woods | 012 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $26–$52 | |||
| Woods | 013 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $26–$52 | |||
| Woods | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $26–$52 | |||
| Woods | 015 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $26–$52 | |||
| Woods | 016 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 21 ft | 1,396 ft | $26–$52 | |
| Woods | 017 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 21 ft | 1,378 ft | $26–$52 | |
| Woods | 018 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 31 ft | 1,458 ft | $26–$52 | |
| Woods | 019 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 31 ft | 1,446 ft | $26–$52 | |
| Woods | 020 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 50 ft | 1,482 ft | $26–$52 | |
| Woods | 021 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $26–$52 | |||
| Woods | 022 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $26–$52 | |||
| Woods | 023 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 118 ft | 1,363 ft | $26–$52 | |
| Woods | 024 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 101 ft | 1,270 ft | $26–$52 | |
| Woods | 025 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 46 ft | 1,256 ft | $26–$52 | |
| Woods | 026 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $26–$52 | |||
| Woods | 027 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 46 ft | 1,211 ft | $26–$52 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It types it MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
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Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Hinman Campground (CO)Routt National Forest · 10 mi
Seedhouse Guard StationRoutt National Forest · 12 mi
Seedhouse CampgroundRoutt National Forest · 12 mi
Seedhouse Group Site - Medicine-Bow Routt NF (CO)Routt National Forest · 14 mi
Hog Park CampgroundMedicine Bow National Forest · 14 miSawmill Creek CampgroundRoutt National Forest · 19 miFrom Steamboat Springs, Colorado, take U.S. Highway 40 west for 1.2 miles and turn north onto County Road 129. Proceed for 28 miles, then take Forest Road 486 west for 2 miles to the campground.
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 21°F, day 53°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 2°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
Hahns Peak Lake Campground - Medicine-Bow Routt NF (CO) 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 →