Indian Creek Equestrian Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $30From, per site
- Sites
- 7All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Please Note: Must be in possession of a horse in order to camp in the equestrian campground. The Indian Creek Equestrian Campground is an ideal camping site for avid horseback riders looking to explore the Indian Creek Equestrian Trail. The area provides a pleasant atmosphere plus nearby access to the Rampart Range, a well known off-highway vehicle riding area. The area boasts wildlife like mule deer, turkey, elk and black bears. The Roxborough State Park is located to the northeast of the campground as has a reputation for its dramatic red-rock formations. Keep reading
Recreation
The Indian Creek Trail, which is also called the Bear Creek Trail, is a loop trail that extends for 14 miles. In addition to horseback riders, mountain bikers and hikers also enjoy taking on the scenic journey.
Facilities
Please Note: Must be in possession of a horse in order to camp in the equestrian campground, which has 7 campsites. Four hitching rails and some small corrals are provided for common use. Drinking water is on hand from hydrants. There is no watering trough available. The campground is adjacent to the Indian Creek Campground, which is available for family camping.
Natural Features
Campsites sit among a mix of trees that provide both shade and sun throughout the day. These include Ponderosa pine, Gamble oak, Douglas fir, aspen and spruce. Pike-San Isabel National Forests include over a million acres of wilderness and over half of Colorado's mountain peaks that reach above 14,000 feet in altitude. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.
What the agency tells you
Please Note: Must be in possession of a horse in order to camp in the equestrian campground.
Be bear aware; keep all food out of site in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from area after eating
Hay brought to this facility must be certified weed-free
Everything else this campground posts · 4
No electric hookups available
No firearms or fireworks
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
- 7 · 7 equestrian
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Not allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…corrals are provided for common use. Drinking water is on hand from hydrants. There is no watering…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Night sky · 520th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 5
- Fall color · reported 11 days ago, 21 km away
- No change
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.
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Tell me when the season opens
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We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $30 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
7 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 7 mapped sitesAll 7 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 7 of the 7 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. 7 of the 7 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| INDE | 001 | equestrian nonelectric | 30 ft | 244 ft | 2,473 ft | 574 ft | $30 |
| INDE | 002 | equestrian nonelectric | 30 ft | 71 ft | 2,229 ft | 339 ft | $30 |
| INDE | 003 | equestrian nonelectric | 30 ft | 71 ft | 2,160 ft | 268 ft | $30 |
| INDE | 004 | equestrian nonelectric | 30 ft | 64 ft | 2,044 ft | 145 ft | $30 |
| INDE | 005 | equestrian nonelectric | 30 ft | 64 ft | 1,981 ft | 88 ft | $30 |
| INDE | 006 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 52 ft | 1,914 ft | 145 ft | $30 |
| INDE | 007 | equestrian nonelectric | 30 ft | 52 ft | 1,966 ft | 165 ft | $30 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Rampart Range Recreation Area Designated Dispersed CampingPike National Forest · 1.3 miFlat Rocks CampgroundPike National Forest · 4.5 mi
Osprey (CO)Pike National Forest · 4.7 mi
OuzelPike National Forest · 6.5 miDevils Head CampgroundPike National Forest · 8.3 miFrom Sedalia, drive about 10 miles west on Highway 67 and the entrance is about a half mile from the intersection of Highway 67 and Rampart Range Rd.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Roxborough Park, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 32°F, day 64°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 14°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
Indian Creek Equestrian Campground is in Colorado’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Lauren Boebert (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →