Iron Springs Campground - Ouray RD
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $16From, per site
- Season
- May 23 – September 29Open May 23 through September 29
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Iron Springs Campground has 8 campsites for tents and small contained trailers. This campground is located on the Uncompahgre Plateau, with popular activities such as off-highway vehicle trail riding, mountain biking and big game hunting. The campground has a vault restroom.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…big game hunting. The campground has a vault restroom.”
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 $16 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.
Every line of the receipt · 7
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($16), 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
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Silesca CabinUncompahgre National Forest · 2.4 miRockhouse Ledges CampgroundUncompahgre Field Office · 13 miCottonwood Ledges CampgroundUncompahgre Field Office · 13 miColumbine Campground - Ouray RDUncompahgre National Forest · 14 miLower Beaver CampgroundUncompahgre Field Office · 14 miCaddis Flats CampgroundUncompahgre Field Office · 20 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Norwood, CO
Typical weather
Typical May night 29°F, day 60°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 29°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 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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Iron Springs Campground - Ouray 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 →