Kite Lake Campground
1Heads up1 fire 18 mi away
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Kite Lake Campground is located 5.5 miles northwest of Alma, Colorado, on County Road 8. It has five campsites, which are not recommended for trailers. Facilities include fire rings, tables and outhouse toilets, but there is no water or trash service.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Yes, the record doesn't say what kind
- “Facilities include fire rings, tables and outhouse toilets, but there is no water or trash service.”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…rings, tables and outhouse toilets, but there is no water or trash service.”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Fall color · reported 14 days ago, 17 km away
- Peak color
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. 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 · 3
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
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Camp Hale MemorialCamp Hale - Continental Divide National Monument · 12 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Alma, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 21°F, day 47°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 3°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
Kite Lake Campground is in Colorado’s 7th congressional district. Its representative, Brittany Pettersen (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →