Kelly Dahl
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $18.75From, per site
- Sites
- 4525 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Kelly Dahl Campground is located adjacent to the Peak-to-Peak Scenic Byway, near the historic mining towns of Nederland, Rollinsville, Central City and Black Hawk. Keep reading
Recreation
Although no formal trails exist in the campground, a few closed roads offer campers the opportunity to explore the surrounding area. West Magnolia and East Portal Trailheads offer trails within a short drive. The Rollins Pass Road (Moffat Road) and other off-road routes can be found in the vicinity. The lakes across the highway are on private property and access is prohibited.
Facilities
The campground offers 46 single-family sites that will accommodate tents, trailers or RVs. Campsites #1 through #20 are first-come, first-served. Each site is equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring with grill. There is a maximum of eight people per site. Vault toilets, drinking water, and trash collection are provided throughout the campground. Firewood is for sale in campground. The road through the campground is gravel/dirt. A playground suitable for small children is located within the campground.
Natural Features
The campground is situated among ponderosa pines, on a gentle slope, at an approximate elevation of 8,600 feet. Due to the mountain pine beetle infestation and consequent hazardous tree removal, the campground offers little to no shade.
Nearby Attractions
The town of Nederland, which is four miles north of the campground, offers grocery and hardware stores, restaurants, gas, a post office, bank and Barker Reservoir. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 529-0578.
Charges & Cancellations
Modifications for this campground must be made through Recreation.gov or by calling the call center at 1-877-444-6777 PRIOR to your reservation start date. Customers and contact center agents cannot modify reservations on or after the check-in date.
What the agency tells you
RV water connections are not available. Utility hookups are not available.
This is bear country! For bear and human safety, keep a clean campsite and do not place food or other attractants in your tent. For more information about visiting bear country, contact Colorado Parks and Wildlife at http://wildlife.state.co.us
https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/arp for more information on the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 8
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.
All campsites must be occupied within 26 hours of the beginning of the reservation. If not present the site will be rented by first come first serve basis.
EXTRA VEHICLE FEES: One vehicle is included in your reservation. Any additional vehicles will be charged $8.00 per vehicle per night and will be collected by the camp host if you did not pay for the Extra Vehicle Add On. One vehicle consists of one camper being towed by vehicle, or any other vehicle towed behind camper. One van or one truck with camper attached counts as one vehicle. Extra vehicles must fit on the parking spur at your site.
Fire Restrictions: Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed.
RVs, trailers or other vehicles must fit on the parking spur. Driving or parking off road is not permitted.
Pets must be on a hand-held leash at all times
Modifications for this campground must be made through Recreation.gov PRIOR to your reservation start date. Customers and contact center agents cannot modify reservations on or after the check-in date.
Check-Out is at 12 P.M. Check-In is at 2 P.M.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 45
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…is a maximum of eight people per site. Vault toilets, drinking water, and trash collection are provided…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…of eight people per site. Vault toilets, drinking water, and trash collection are provided throughout the…”
- Playground
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Night sky · 510th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 12 days ago, 2.5 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 25 of the 45 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.
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 · 13
What you actually pay
“Any additional vehicles will be charged $8.00 per vehicle per night and will be collected by the camp host if you did not pay for the Extra Vehicle Add On.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $18.75 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.
“Modifications for this campground must be made through Recreation.gov or by calling the call center at 1-877-444-6777 PRIOR to your reservation start date. Customers and contact center agents cannot modify reservations on or after the check-in date.” · this campground’s own 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 · 7
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
46 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 25 mapped sitesAll 46 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 45 of the 46 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. 45 of the 46 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.
| KELL | 021 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 152 ft | 972 ft | 306 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 022 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 102 ft | 1,010 ft | 243 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 023 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 102 ft | 1,109 ft | 155 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 024 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 103 ft | 1,071 ft | 245 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 025 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 103 ft | 1,169 ft | 222 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 026 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 100 ft | 1,268 ft | 152 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 027 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 100 ft | 1,305 ft | 82 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 028 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 74 ft | 1,426 ft | 83 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 029 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 74 ft | 1,498 ft | 14 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 030 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 81 ft | 1,539 ft | 68 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 031 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 92 ft | 1,597 ft | 129 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 032 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 71 ft | 1,664 ft | 221 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 033 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 71 ft | 1,706 ft | 220 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 034 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 69 ft | 1,838 ft | 207 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 035 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 84 ft | 1,856 ft | 151 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 036 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 69 ft | 1,907 ft | 157 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 038 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 114 ft | 2,095 ft | 133 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 039 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 114 ft | 2,089 ftBeaver Creek | 239 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 040 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 84 ft | 2,006 ft | 163 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 041 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 112 ft | 1,980 ftBeaver Creek | 181 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 042 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 84 ft | 1,930 ft | 100 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 043 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 130 ft | 1,913 ftBeaver Creek | 55 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 044 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 122 ft | 1,802 ft | 115 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 045 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 107 ft | 1,712 ft | 221 ft | $18.75 |
| KELL | 046 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 107 ft | 1,819 ft | 141 ft | $18.75 |
| MANAGEMENT | 001 | type not stated | 855 ft | 314 ft | $18.75 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 002 | type not stated | 938 ft | 360 ft | $18.75 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 003 | type not stated | 1,009 ft | 235 ft | $18.75 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 004 | type not stated | 1,151 ft | 216 ft | $18.75 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 005 | type not stated | 1,068 ft | 221 ft | $18.75 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 006 | type not stated | 925 ft | 167 ft | $18.75 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 007 | type not stated | 930 ft | 93 ft | $18.75 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 008 | type not stated | 1,022 ft | 110 ft | $18.75 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 009 | type not stated | 1,067 ft | 157 ft | $18.75 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 010 | type not stated | 1,183 ft | 269 ft | $18.75 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 011 | type not stated | 1,292 ft | 259 ft | $18.75 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 012 | type not stated | 1,266 ft | 215 ft | $18.75 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 013 | type not stated | 1,358 ft | 81 ft | $18.75 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 014 | type not stated | 1,433 ft | 128 ft | $18.75 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 015 | type not stated | 1,443 ft | 106 ft | $18.75 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 016 | type not stated | 1,366 ft | 79 ft | $18.75 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 017 | type not stated | 1,225 ft | 113 ft | $18.75 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 018 | type not stated | 1,248 ft | 126 ft | $18.75 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 019 | type not stated | 1,141 ft | 201 ft | $18.75 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 020 | type not stated | 1,053 ft | 290 ft | $18.75 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX | unnamed record | 45 ft | $18.75 |
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.
25 of 46 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Cold Springs - Arapaho Roosevelt NF (CO)Arapaho National Forest · 6.3 mi
Pickle GulchArapaho National Forest · 6.3 miRainbow Lakes CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 6.5 mi
Columbine CampgroundArapaho National Forest · 8.6 mi
Pawnee CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 11 miFrom Denver, go north on Interstate 25 to US Highway 36 west to Boulder. Take Colorado Highway 119 (Canyon Boulevard) west for 22 miles to Nederland. Continue south for 4 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 Rollinsville, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 30°F, day 52°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 15°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Kelly Dahl 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 →