Marshall Park
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $26From, per site
- Sites
- 15All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
Marshall Park Campground is situated in an open meadow on the Rio Grande River with views of Bristol Head Peak and the La Garita Mountains. Campers enjoy trout fishing, boating and the area's diverse wildlife. It also makes for a great base camp for hunters in the area. Keep reading
Recreation
Anglers will find an abundance of rainbow trout in the Rio Grande, which is considered a trophy river. The river also welcomes wading and exploration. Off-road vehicle trails are nearby as well.
Facilities
Amenities include picnic tables and campfire rings. An accessible vault toilet with a night light is provided. Firewood may be purchased from the host. Campfire programs are presented periodically throughout the summer. No drinking water is available. Campers must bring their own supply.
Natural Features
The campground is located about 7 miles southwest of Creed, Colorado at an elevation of 8,800 feet. Campsites are open with few trees. The sun hits the campground in the late morning, after cool early morning temperatures. Rio Grande National Forest spans 1.86 million acres in south-central Colorado. The Continental Divide runs for 236 miles along most of the forest's western border, presenting a myriad of ecosystems from alpine desert to rugged wilderness. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (805) 434-1996.
Nearby Attractions
Head east of Creed for off-road vehicle trails like the Lost Trail #821 that runs for 11 miles and offers wonderful views of the surrounding mountains.
What the agency tells you
PMC & Recreation.gov policy states we will keep your reserved site until check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. If you haven't occupied it at any time during this period, your reservation is null and void and will be given to first come first serve campers. Your reservation will be a no show and no refund will be given.
All single campsite reservation fees are good for 6 people and 1 vehicle. The maximum number of people per site is 8 ($10.00 additional charge after 6 people). The maximum number of vehicles per site is 2 ($10.00 additional charge for 2nd vehicle). Any extra people/vehicle fees will be charged at the campground ($10/night per person/vehicle).
Bears frequent the area; keep all food out of sight in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from the area after eating
Everything else this campground posts · 10
No drinking water available; please bring your own supply
The camp host at this location cannot modify your reservation. Before your check-in date, you may cancel or modify your reservation online. After your check-out date, you have a 7 day period to request a refund online.
No electric hookups at this facility
This is a high elevation facility, please use caution when traveling from lower elevations
This campground has first-come, first-serve sites available but not guaranteed
The 14 day stay limit is strictly enforced. Camping for a period longer than 14 days during any 30-consecutive day period is prohibited. If you have booked back-to-back reservations, you will be asked to cancel all days after the first 14.
Click here for more information on Rio Grande National Forest
Check out the forest's campground description for specific information to Fish Your National Forest
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.
The Rio Grande National Forest continues to monitor the COVID-19 situation and evaluate potential impacts and adjustments to reservations and our reservation policies through Recreation.gov. Reservation holders will be notified via email and/or cell phone text messages if there are any changes affecting their reservation. In the event of delayed openings of some, part or all of the campgrounds and cabins to ensure safe social distancing, you will receive a full refund for your reservation. Please remember to review current recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and focus on recreating safely while protecting yourself, Forest Service employees and our volunteers.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 15 · 1 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 103 ft
- Paved pads
- 10 of 15
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…tables and campfire rings. An accessible vault toilet with a night light is provided. Firewood may be…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…periodically throughout the summer. No drinking water is available. Campers must bring their own supply.…”
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Meadow
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 21st darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 12 days ago, 4.7 km away
- Peak color
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.
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 · 16
What you actually pay
“The maximum number of vehicles per site is 2 ($10.00 additional charge for 2nd vehicle).” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $26 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking, plus the agency’s published $2 weekend rate on Friday and Saturday. 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
15 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 15 mapped sitesAll 15 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 15 of the 15 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| MARSHALL PARK | 001 | standard nonelectric | 95 ft | 105 ft | 261 ft | $26 |
| MARSHALL PARK | 002 | standard nonelectric | 66 ft | 93 ft | 222 ft | $26 |
| MARSHALL PARK | 003 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 93 ft | 189 ft | $26 |
| MARSHALL PARK | 004 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 116 ft | 72 ft | $26 |
| MARSHALL PARK | 005 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 116 ft | 94 ft | $26 |
| MARSHALL PARK | 006 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 125 ft | 71 ft | $26 |
| MARSHALL PARK | 007 | tent only nonelectric | 40 ft | 79 ft | $26 | |
| MARSHALL PARK | 008 | standard nonelectric | 79 ft | 30 ft | 124 ft | $26 |
| MARSHALL PARK | 009 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 30 ft | 95 ft | $26 |
| MARSHALL PARK | 010 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 87 ft | 91 ft | $26 |
| MARSHALL PARK | 011 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 69 ft | 116 ft | $26 |
| MARSHALL PARK | 012 | standard nonelectric | 103 ft | 69 ft | 122 ft | $26 |
| MARSHALL PARK | 013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 78 ft | 107 ft | $26 |
| MARSHALL PARK | 014 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 170 ft | 120 ft | $26 |
| MARSHALL PARK | 015 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 118 ft | 214 ft | $26 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Bristol Head CampgroundRio Grande National Forest · 9.0 miSilver Thread CampgroundRio Grande National Forest · 9.8 miRoad Canyon CampgroundRio Grande National Forest · 12 miFrom Creede, Colorado, travel 7 miles west on Colorado Highway 149 to Forest Road 523. Take Forest Road 523 one mile to the campground entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for City of Creede, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 26°F, day 61°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 6°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
Marshall Park 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 →