Haviland Lake Campground
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- A night
- $30–$98Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 41All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 1Opens May 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Haviland Lake Campground is situated on its beautiful namesake within the San Juan National Forest, 18 miles north of Durango. Visitors enjoy the area for its canoeing, fishing and hiking opportunities in a scenic, natural setting. The popular campground is beautiful any time of the year. Keep reading
Recreation
Haviland Lake is an 80-acre, no-wake lake with excellent boating, canoeing and fishing opportunities. An accessible fishing dock is located on the lakeshore. Anglers cast for rainbow and brown trout. A Colorado Division of Wildlife fishing license is required to fish. Several trailheads are in the vicinity. The Forebay Lake Trail begins in the campground and leads to small Forebay Lake, just over a mile east of the campground. The historic Rico-to-Rockwood Wagon Road passes through Haviland and Chris Park. Built in the late 1800s, the road was used for six years until the railway opened.
Facilities
The campground offers single- and double-family sites, many of which have electric hookups. Picnic tables and campfire rings are provided, as are accessible vault toilets and drinking water.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the shore of Haviland Lake, among shady, towering ponderosa pines, at an elevation of 8,705 feet. Many sites have lake views and easy shoreline access. Campers are awarded spectacular views of the Hermosa Cliffs across the lake. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.
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
First Come First Served (FCFS) Campsites are also available at this campground. These campsites must be claimed in person. The contact center is unable to provide the availability by phone, so we recommend arriving early to secure a spot.
For general information about the San Juan National Forest, please call (970) 884-2512. Campsite availability is not available at this phone number
This is bear country; please practice safe food storage techniques
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Click here for more information on the San Juan National Forest
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
- 41
- Hookups
- 17 electric
- Longest rig
- 48 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…rings are provided, as are accessible vault toilets and drinking water. Natural Features The campground…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…as are accessible vault toilets and drinking water. Natural Features The campground is situated on the…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Night sky · 221st darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 8 days ago, 25 km away
- Patchy color
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:29 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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.
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 · 18
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $30–$98 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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 16:29 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
41 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 26 mapped sitesAll 41 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 41 of the 41 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| LOOP A | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| LOOP A | 004 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| LOOP A | 005 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| LOOP A | 006 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| LOOP A | 039 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 337 ft | $43–$98 |
| LOOP A | 040 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 71 ft | 320 ft | $43–$98 |
| LOOP A | 041 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 313 ft | $43–$98 |
| LOOP A | 042 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 37 ft | 269 ft | $43–$98 |
| LOOP A | 043 | standard electric | 28 ft | 50 amp | 37 ft | 246 ft | $43–$98 |
| LOOP A | 044 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 74 ft | 259 ft | $30–$60 | |
| LOOP A | 045 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 229 ft | 214 ft | $30–$60 | |
| LOOP B | 023 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| LOOP B | 024 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 58 ft | 911 ft | $30–$60 | |
| LOOP B | 025 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| LOOP B | 026 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 33 ft | 878 ft | $30–$60 | |
| LOOP B | 027 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 33 ft | 861 ft | $30–$60 | |
| LOOP B | 028 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| LOOP B | 029 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 59 ft | 679 ft | $30–$60 | |
| LOOP B | 030 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 66 ft | 811 ft | $30–$60 | |
| LOOP B | 031 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 59 ft | 726 ft | $30–$60 | |
| LOOP C | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| LOOP C | 008 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| LOOP C | 009 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| LOOP C | 019 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 859 ft | $43–$98 |
| LOOP C | 020 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 906 ft | $43–$98 |
| LOOP C | 021 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 981 ft | $43–$98 |
| LOOP C | 022 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| LOOP C | 032 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 22 ft | 893 ft | $43–$98 |
| LOOP C | 033 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 22 ft | 898 ft | $30–$60 | |
| LOOP C | 034 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 795 ft | $43–$98 |
| LOOP C | 035 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| LOOP C | 036 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| LOOP C | 037 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| LOOP C | 038 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $30–$60 | |||
| LOOP D | 010 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 49 ft | 691 ft | $43–$98 |
| LOOP D | 011 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 47 ft | 684 ft | $43–$98 |
| LOOP D | 012 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 45 ft | 687 ft | $43–$98 |
| LOOP D | 013 | standard electric | 18 ft | 50 amp | 45 ft | 707 ft | $43–$98 |
| LOOP D | 014 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 772 ft | $43–$98 |
| LOOP D | 015 | standard electric | 18 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 809 ft | $43–$98 |
| LOOP D | 016 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 759 ft | $43–$98 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 41 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Chris ParkSan Juan National Forest · 1.3 miLower Hermosa CampgroundSan Juan National Forest · 6.2 mi
Lower Hermosa (CO)San Juan National Forest · 7.1 mi
Sig CreekSan Juan National Forest · 7.1 mi
Sig Creek CampgroundSan Juan National Forest · 8.0 mi
Transfer Park CampgroundSan Juan National Forest · 8.5 miFrom Durango, travel north on Highway 550 for 18 miles to Haviland Lake Road. Turn right onto Haviland Lake Road and continue a mile 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 Durango, CO
Typical weather
Typical May night 35°F, day 63°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 35°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Haviland Lake Campground 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 →