Lynx Pass Campground
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The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
DESCRIPTION: Located in the Gore Pass area on the Routt National Forest. Lynx Pass campground is a small campground hosting 11 sites and can be found on Forest Service Road 270 between the towns of Kremmling, CO and Yampa, CO (off HWY 134) The Lynx Pass Campground and surrounding area offers outdoor enthusiasts an opportunity to enjoy the simple pleasure of being outside. The campground is surrounded in lodgepole pine offering mostly shade, with a secluded, natural and primitive feel and can accommodate tents, campers, and trailers. This campground is popular for big game hunting in the fall. Keep reading
Max Length for campers/trailers: 18 feet Amenities: Picnic table at each site Fire grate at each site Potable water Trash service 1 vault toilet Several trailheads nearby Elevation & Weather: At 8,989 ft, campers can expect cold evenings and cool mornings even during the warm summer months and snow-covered sites into the 2nd week of June.
Recreation
Opportunities at Lynx Pass: Mountain biking: Tepee Creek Trail #1173 , Morrison Divide (Muddy Slide) Trail #1174 E-Biking (allowed on motorized trails and roads ONLY): Morrison Divide (Muddy Slide) Trail #1174 ATV Trail: Morrison Divide (Muddy Slide) Trail #1174 (usda.gov) PLEASE NOTE: Trail is narrow and ALL ATVS MUST BE UNDER 50” in width . Violators will be fined. ATV's MUST BE TRAILERED FROM THE CAMPGROUND TO THE TRAILHEAD. Hiking trails (30-minute drive to the Sarvis Creek Wilderness Area near Stagecoach Reservoir): Sarvis Creek Wilderness Fishing is popular at Lagunita Lake just a short walk from the campground. Other Recreation Areas Nearby: 3.5 miles - Rock Creek Recreation Area 6 miles - Blacktail Creek Campground Red Dirt Reservoir and dispersed camping recreation area Closest Towns: Toponas, CO Yampa, CO Kremmling, CO Directions: Lynx Pass Campground can be accessed on its northern end via County Road 16 from Stagecoach State Park/Oak Creek, and from the southern end via State Highway 134. State Highway 134 can be accessed from either HWY 40 (Kremmling, CO) or from Steamboat Springs or Yampa, CO via HWY 131.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…each site Potable water Trash service 1 vault toilet Several trailheads nearby Elevation & Weather: At…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…at each site Fire grate at each site Potable water Trash service 1 vault toilet Several trailheads…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek
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
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Pumphouse Recreation AreaKremmling Field Office · 12 mi
Radium Recreation AreaKremmling Field Office · 13 miCatamount Bridge CampgroundColorado River Valley Field Office · 17 mi
Meadows Campground (CO)Routt National Forest · 19 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Yampa, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 25°F, day 55°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 7°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
Lynx Pass Campground 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 →