Mix Lake Campground
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $30From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
10,000-foot elevation. 22 campsites near Mix Lake. Convenient to the Conejos River, the San Juan Wilderness, Platoro Reservoir, and other nearby ponds and lakes. Numerous trailheads in the area. Mix Lake Campground is one mile west of Platoro in the Conejos River drainage. This is a good access point for the South San Juan Wilderness. Mix Lake, Platoro Reservoir, Conejos River, Lily Pond and Kerr Lake can all be accessed for fishing. Trail accesses include Lake Fork Trail 716 and Sawmill Gulch Trail. One can also visit the historic town of Platoro and the Mix Lake overlook is on-site. The campground has 22 sites with tables and fireplaces. 3 vault type toilets, refuse receptacles and pickup, ample parking with convenient trailer spaces and drinking water are provided
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “3 vault type toilets, refuse receptacles and pickup, ample parking with convenient trailer spaces and drinking water are provided”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…with convenient trailer spaces and drinking water are provided”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River
Phone before you drive
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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($30), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Platoro Cabin 1Rio Grande National Forest · 0.9 mi
Platoro Cabin 2Rio Grande National Forest · 0.9 mi
Stunner CampgroundRio Grande National Forest · 2.2 miLake Fork CampgroundRio Grande National Forest · 5.0 mi
Lake Fork(Rio Grande Natl ForeRio Grande National Forest · 5.8 mi
Elwood CabinRio Grande National Forest · 6.2 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for South Fork, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 23°F, day 55°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 2°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
Mix Lake Campground 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 →