Mogote
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $29From, per site
- Sites
- 42All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices
In the agency’s own words
Mogote Campground is located along the Conejos River, making it a perfect location for fishing and hiking. The pleasant campground is well shaded by groves of ponderosa pine and a mixture of cottonwood, spruce, willow and aspen. The campground is also in close proximity to the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, home of America's highest and longest, coal fired, steam operated narrow-gauge railroad. Keep reading
Recreation
The Conejos River is a Gold Medal River, offering a high potential for trophy trout fishing. Rainbow and brown trout are the most common species in the river. Popular hikes include the 15-mile Elk Creek Trail and the 10.9-mile South Fork Conejos Trail.
Facilities
Campsites are equipped with picnic tables and campfire rings with grills. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash bins are provided. An accessible toilet is located in the upper loop. No electric hookups are available. Firewood can be purchased on site.
Natural Features
The campground sits at an elevation of 8,400 feet, and is separated into an upper and lower loop. The lower loop sits along the fast-flowing Conejos River and many sites face the water. The campground is perched in a wooded section along the river valley. Rio Grande National Forest stretches across 1.86 million acres in south-central Colorado. The forest encompasses a myriad of ecosystems ranging from high elevation desert at 7,600 feet above sea level to rocky crags at over 14,300 feet in the majestic Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (805) 434-1996.
Nearby Attractions
The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad can be accessed from Antonito. The train makes a 640-mile journey through abandoned mining towns, creating great entertainment for young and old.
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 we will give it 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).
All double campsite reservation fees are good for 12 people and two vehicles. The maximum number of people per double site is 16 ($10.00 additional charge after 12 people). The maximum number of vehicles per site is 2 ($10.00 additional charge for over 2 vehicles). Any extra people/vehicle fees will be charged at the campground for $10/night per person/vehicle.
Everything else this campground posts · 11
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 off-road vehicles allowed.
Campers will need to bring their own equipment for use at the volleyball court or horseshoe pits.
No electric hookups at this facility.
This campground has first-come, first-serve sites but not guaranteed to be available
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.
Please fill your trailer prior to arriving. Trailers are not allowed to fill at any hydrants as it might contaminate the entire water system.
Weather conditions can change rapidly; please check prior to arrival
Click here for more information on the Rio Grande 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
- 42 · 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 43 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER (PEAK SEASON) on 1 of 43 campsite records
- 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, Creek
- Night sky · 122nd darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 2
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.
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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, $29 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
43 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 42 mapped sitesAll 43 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 42 of the 43 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| JGRP | G0J | group standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 700 ft | 769 ft | $90–$160 | |
| LOWE | 022 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 49 ft | 434 ft | $29 | |
| LOWE | 023 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 49 ft | 405 ft | $29 | |
| LOWE | 024 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 17 ft | 186 ft | $29 | |
| LOWE | 025 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 17 ft | 200 ft | $29 | |
| LOWE | 026 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 68 ft | 154 ft | $29 | |
| LOWE | 027 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 65 ft | 184 ft | $29 | |
| LOWE | 028 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 53 ft | 153 ft | $29 | |
| LOWE | 029 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 53 ft | 121 ft | $29 | |
| LOWE | 030 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 63 ft | 110 ft | $29 | |
| LOWE | 031 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 63 ft | 158 ft | $29 | |
| LOWE | 032 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 67 ft | 196 ft | $29 | |
| LOWE | 033 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 125 ft | 405 ft | $29 | |
| LOWE | 034 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 52 ft | 350 ft | $29 | |
| LOWE | 035 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 52 ft | 305 ft | $29 | |
| LOWE | 036 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 34 ft | 245 ft | $29 | |
| LOWE | 037 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 34 ft | 215 ft | $29 | |
| LOWE | 038 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 49 ft | 137 ft | $29 | |
| LOWE | 039 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 49 ft | 147 ft | $29 | |
| LOWE | 040 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 53 ft | 223 ft | $29 | |
| LOWE | 041 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 53 ft | 268 ft | $29 | |
| Pgrp | GOP | group standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | $90–$160 | ||
| UPPE | 001 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 42 ft | 719 ft | $29 | |
| UPPE | 002 Host | host pad | 60 ft | 26 ft | 830 ft | $29 | |
| UPPE | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 26 ft | 844 ft | $29 | |
| UPPE | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 45 ft | 883 ft | $29 | |
| UPPE | 005 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 105 ft | 1,000 ft | $29 | |
| UPPE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 14 ft | 1,078 ft | $29 | |
| UPPE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 14 ft | 1,092 ft | $29 | |
| UPPE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 58 ft | 1,118 ft | $29 | |
| UPPE | 009 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 58 ft | 1,071 ft | $29 | |
| UPPE | 010 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 25 ft | 1,045 ft | $29 | |
| UPPE | 011 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 25 ft | 1,023 ft | $29 | |
| UPPE | 012 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 88 ft | 862 ft | $29 | |
| UPPE | 013 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 110 ft | 953 ft | $29 | |
| UPPE | 014 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 88 ft | 843 ft | $29 | |
| UPPE | 015 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 37 ft | 762 ft | $29 | |
| UPPE | 016 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 37 ft | 725 ft | $29 | |
| UPPE | 017 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 31 ft | 700 ft | $29 | |
| UPPE | 018 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 31 ft | 704 ft | $29 | |
| UPPE | 019 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 58 ft | 715 ft | $29 | |
| UPPE | 020 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 111 ft | 696 ft | $29 | |
| UPPE | 021 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 42 ft | 684 ft | $29 |
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.
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.
25 of 43 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Aspen Glade (Rio Grande National Forest, CO)Rio Grande National Forest · 2.2 miAspen Glade CampgroundRio Grande National Forest · 2.3 mi
Elk Creek Campground (Rio Grande NF)Rio Grande National Forest · 8.5 miTrujillo Meadows CampgroundRio Grande National Forest · 12 miSpectacle Lake CampgroundRio Grande National Forest · 13 miFrom Antonito, Colorado, go west on Highway 17 about 15 miles to the campground access road. Turn right and travel 1/4 mile to the Upper Loop Road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Conejos, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 28°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 5°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
Mogote 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 →