Midland Group Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
Midland Group Campground is located along the Fraser River, just south of Winter Park. Visitors to the area enjoy hiking, biking, and fishing, with easy access to the town of Winter Park. This campground provides a rustic camping experience for group gatherings. Keep reading
Recreation
Hiking, biking, fishing and wildlife viewing are all accessible near the campground. Nearby Berthoud Pass is known for its scenic drive.
Facilities
Midland Group Campground provides for a minimally developed group camping experience for up to 36 people. There are five picnic tables, each with metal fire ring and a large area for tents and canopy structures. Bear-resistant food storage lockers are not yet available at this site. Portable toilets are provided for guest use, and water is available at Idlewild Campground about 3 miles north of Midland. The campground host will be located off-site at Idlewild.
Natural Features
Midland Campground sits at 9,500' elevation, along the Fraser River as it runs from its source near Berthoud Pass to its confluence with the Colorado River. Nearby trailheads and 4x4 roads provide access to Jim Creek, as well as the west side of historic Rollins Pass. The summit of Berthoud Pass provides further scenery and trail access. Afternoon thunderstorms can be expected during spring and summer months.
Nearby Attractions
Grocery shopping and restaurants are available in towns of Winter Park and Fraser. The Arapaho National Recreation Area and western portal of Rocky Mountain National Park are within an hour's drive.
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
Please Note: The site provides parking for up to 12 vehicles and a maximum of 36 people at one time. A combination to the site access gate can be obtained by contacting Vista Recreation at 530-529-0578 . Vehicle access to the lower camping site is determined on a case-by-case basis. Trailers are not recommended.
Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests.
RV water connections are not available; come with your water tank filled.
Everything else this campground posts · 12
Reservation holder must be present at check-in.
This campground has a 14 day stay limit.
Pets must be on a maximum length of 6ft leash.
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.
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 http://www.dontmovefirewood.org/
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 It is also required that you use bear resistant food storage lockers where these facilities are provided.
Click here for more information about Arapaho & Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/arp
Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
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 charge is applied for a vehicle outside of your camping unit. A camping unit is described as a camping vehicle towing a personal vehicle or a personal vehicle towing the camping unit. Tent campers are allowed the tent and 1 vehicle any vehicle above this will get an extra vehicle charge. Tent camping rule also applies to a camping unit a fixed to the back of a personal vehicle. 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 camphost. There is not a way to pay for extra vehicles when you make your reservation. 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.
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
- 1 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Portable Toilets
- “…are not yet available at this site. Portable toilets are provided for guest use, and water is available…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…toilets are provided for guest use, and water is available at Idlewild Campground about 3 miles north of…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 22 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 · 13
What you actually pay
“Any additional vehicles will be charged $8.00 per vehicle per night and will be collected by the camphost.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
“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
1 sites
All 1 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. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Midland Group | Group Site | group standard nonelectric | $100 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Idlewild CampgroundArapaho National Forest · 3.3 miMizpah CampgroundArapaho National Forest · 6.5 mi
St. Louis CreekArapaho National Forest · 7.3 mi
Columbine CampgroundArapaho National Forest · 11 miFrom Winter Park, travel 4.5 miles south on US Hwy 40. The campground is located on the east side of the road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Winter Park, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 21°F, day 56°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night -1°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
Midland Group 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 →