U.S. Forest Service · Gunnison National Forest · CO

Hidden Valley Tent Campground- Gunnison RD

1Heads up1 fire 30 mi away
Wildfire
Gold Mountain fire · 30 mi away · 39,747 acres · 92% contained · updated Oct 13, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.

This is how it should work.

Right now
OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
A night
$14From, per site
Season
June 1Opens June 1. No closing date published.
Drawn from the record · 9,670 ft · 15% tree cover · Cebolla Creek within reach · Bortle 2 sky
9,670 ftElevation
49 ftWater · Cebolla Creek
34 miSE of Ridgway, CO
15%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 7th darkest of 522 in CO
Opens June 1. No closing date published.Today

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Hidden Valley Tent Campground is a primitive tent camping only area. The site is located between the Powderhorn and La Garita Wilderness areas. This tent camping site is great for folks interested in hiking and backpacking. It offers access to extensive trail systems within both wilderness and general forest areas. The landscape is in a narrow valley with spruce, fir and aspen trees next to Cebolla Creek.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Creek
Fall color · reported 12 days ago, 32 km away
Peak color
Source: Stated in the agency description
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (32 km) · Oct 5, 2026

Nothing to book, just show up

One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $14 with nothing added. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.

recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.

BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
A night$14Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$28DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 7

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night, from$14
Night per camping unit$14
Day for day use/picnic use in a campsite$6
Firewood bundle .$10
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$14
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$28

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($14), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.

How we know this receipt · 5
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Tonight31°Clear
Saturday56°Sunny
Saturday Night34°Partly Cloudy4% rain
Sunday51°Partly Sunny then Slight Chance Rain And Snow Showers18% rain

NWS forecast for Cathedral, CO

Typical weather

Typical June night 34°F, day 68°F.

Coldest night of the open season: typical June night 34°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

80°32°-10°

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.

Measured at: SANTA MARIA RSVR, CO (USC00057450), 15 miles away and at about the same elevation

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

Roadless
Cannibal Plateau14,223 acres · 5 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
La Garita340 acres · 7 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Mineral Mountain6,429 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 16, 2026

Who answers for this land

Jeff Hurd, official portrait

Hidden Valley Tent Campground- Gunnison RD 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: Today falls inside the season the agency publishes, and it has posted nothing else. That reading is ours. The U.S. Forest Service’s own database, though, flags it not open with no reason or date; the flag is named under How we know all this.
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (32 km) · Oct 5, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Cathedral, CO, 2.2 mi WSW (a census designated place). Straight line.