U.S. Forest Service · CO

Meeker Park Overflow Campground

ReservableOut of season, no booking; November 14 opens May 14.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$16From, per site
Sites
28All of them booked ahead

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices

In the agency’s own words

This campground offers 29 first-come, first-served Scan & Pay campsites. Sites are best for tent camping due to unpaved roads, steep hills and short pull-ins. Although not a full-service campground, Meeker Park Overflow Campground tends to fill to capacity on weekends due to its proximity to Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park. Keep reading

Facilities

Picnic tables, fire rings, and portable toilets are provided. There is no drinking water, electricity, hook-ups, dump stations, or showers. All campsites with a tent pad have a bear locker.

Nearby Attractions

Rocky Mountain National Park

What the agency tells you

Rule

A maximum of eight people are allowed per site. RVs, trailers or other vehicles must fit on the parking spur.

Rule

Dogs must be on a hand-held leash.

Rule

Potable water is not available at this site.

Everything else this campground posts · 5
Rule

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.

Rule

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.

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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.

Rule

https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/arp for more information on the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forest.

Rule

Check-Out is at 12 P.M. Check-In is at 2 P.M.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Tents and rigs

Sites
28
Hookups
None
Accessible sites
None listed
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Portable Toilets
PORTABLE TOILETS on 29 of 29 campsite records
Drinking water
None, bring your own
“…and portable toilets are provided. There is no drinking water, electricity, hook-ups, dump stations, or showers.…”
Dump station
Yes
Bear boxes
Yes
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

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.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On November 14, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 14, 2027.recreation.govAdd to calendar (.ics)
A night$16plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
A weekend$40DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Forest ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
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’ll write once, when the season that starts Fri, May 14 2027 is open for booking.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

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What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night$16
Single$16
These are next season’s rates, May 14, 2027 to Sep 4, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicle$8

“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

What a stay costs
One nightDerived$24
A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$40

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $16 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

29 records

All 29 records

SleepsUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 28 of the 29 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

Meeker Park01standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park02 Host Sitehost pad
Meeker Park03standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park04standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park05standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park06standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park07standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park08standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park09standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park10standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park11standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park12standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park13standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park14standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park15standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park16standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park17standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park18standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park19standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park20standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park21standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park22standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park23standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park24standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park25standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park26standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park27standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park28standard nonelectric$16
Meeker Park29standard nonelectric$16

The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.

25 of 29 listed

Getting there

the agency’s directions · the phone number
The phone530-529-0578
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

The weather

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

The land, and who answers for it

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.