Mollie B_white River
1Heads up1 fire 22 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 2625 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located approximately 14 miles east of Basalt, Colorado in White River National Forest, Mollie B White River Campground sits adjacent to the Ruedi Reservoir at an elevation just under 7,800 feet. Sites at this campground open up to views of the reservoir and starry nighttime skies. A mixed conifer forest hems in the shoreline, and nearby peaks offer an ideal setting for guests seeking recreation and relaxation. Keep reading
Recreation
Renowned for its fly fishing, Fryingpan River flows below Ruedi Dam. Here, large rainbow, brown, cutthroat and brook trout are plentiful in an area nicknamed the "toilet bowl." The fish feed on mysis shrimp, a small freshwater shrimp stocked in the lake. The stretch of river from the dam down to the confluence of Fryingpan and the Roaring Fork River has been designated as Gold Medal Waters by the Colorado Wildlife Commission. Special regulations in this area include fishing only with artificial flies and lures, and releasing all trout except brown trout, with a limit of 2 fish over 14 inches. For hikers and bikers, the Ruedi Trail, located north of the reservoir, climbs to the top of Red Table Mountain. The trailhead is located 200 feet north of the Jeep trail near the boat ramp and parking lot. This 8-mile trail gains over 3,000 feet in elevation, leading hikers to a spectacular panoramic view of the area. Boating, swimming, and water skiing are all possible. Interpretive programs are popular activities.
Facilities
Mollie B Campground has 27 standard sites suitable for tents, trailers, and RVs. There is a maximum length of 40 feet for RVs. The sites are equipped with picnic tables and campfire rings. Guests also have access to flush toilets and drinking water, but electrical hook-ups are not available. A boat ramp is available for use at this campground.
Natural Features
In the heart of the Rocky Mountains, the 2.3 million acre White River National Forest is a place of serenity and adventure, boasting 8 wilderness areas, 4 defined seasons, and 10 peaks surpassing 14,000 feet in elevation. Wildlife in the area abounds. Bighorn sheep navigate rocky ridges and bull elk bugle at dusk. Scenic rivers sustain populations of cutthroat, rainbow, and brown trout. Alpine regions provide habitat for pika and ptarmigan. These species, along with many others, depend on surrounding undeveloped wilderness, clean streams, and diverse forests to live.
Nearby Attractions
The nearby town of Aspen is a popular destination for visitors to the area. From downhill skiing and world-class fly fishing, to dining and resorts, there are a multitude of outdoor and indoor opportunites in this resort mountain town. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (801) 226-3564.
Charges & Cancellations
Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
What the agency tells you
This is Mollie B/White River Campground located in Carbondale, CO in the Sopris Ranger district; please do not confuse this campground with the Molly Brown Campground located in Leadville, CO
Please Note: One RV with tow per single site or one vehicle per tent site. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. Extra vehicle will be charged a per night fee and collected at the campground.
No boat trailers in campground; boat trailers must be parked in the Marina area
Everything else this campground posts · 12
All food, beverages, trash and scented items must be properly stored when not attended. Bear-proof food lockers are provided at each site and bear-proof trash receptacles are provided at the campground.
Prevent the spread of invasive species by inspecting and cleaning packs, equipment, and tires before using lake or trails
Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (ELEVEN) 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. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
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 dontmovefirewood.org.
Check out the forest's campground description for specific information to Fish Your National Forest
Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only.
Click here for more information about White River National Forest
Campers must occupy the site the first night at a campsite. This precents booking the site for Fri-Sun and showing up on a Saturday.
Campers may leave the site for 24 hours and must occupy the site otherwise. This allows a camper to say go for an overnight backpack trip in the woods for one night and come back to their campsite the next day.
Check in time is 2:00pm and Check out time is 11:00am It is imperative that you are clear from the site at 11:00am on your check out day so the host can come prepare the site for the next event. Please don't be the group that makes the incoming group have to wait.
Customer Service Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.WhiteRiver.Sopris@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 26
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…rings. Guests also have access to flush toilets and drinking water, but electrical hook-ups are not…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…also have access to flush toilets and drinking water, but electrical hook-ups are not available. A boat…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 12 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Ranger programs
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 302nd darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 20 km away
- Past peak
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 25 of the 26 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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 · 11
What you actually pay
“Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.” · 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
26 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 25 mapped sitesAll 26 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 26 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| MOLL | 023 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 73 ft | 227 ft | |
| MOLL | 024 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 73 ft | 218 ft | |
| MOLL | 025 | type not stated | 50 ft | 226 ft | $32 | |
| MOLL | 026 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 90 ft | 261 ft | |
| MOLL | 027 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 16 ft | 308 ft | |
| MOLL | 028 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 16 ft | 324 ft | |
| MOLL | 029 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 31 ft | 333 ft | |
| MOLL | 030 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 31 ft | 350 ft | |
| MOLL | 031 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 33 ft | 337 ft | |
| MOLL | 032 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 49 ft | 309 ftRuedi Reservoir | |
| MOLL | 033 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 17 ft | 242 ftRuedi Reservoir | |
| MOLL | 034 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 17 ft | 259 ftRuedi Reservoir | |
| MOLL | 035 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 45 ft | 215 ft | |
| MOLL | 036 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 45 ft | 174 ft | |
| MOLL | 037 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 13 ft | 130 ft | |
| MOLL | 038 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 40 ft | 123 ft | |
| MOLL | 039 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 13 ft | 143 ft | |
| MOLL | 040 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 40 ft | 113 ft | |
| MOLL | 041 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 73 ft | 99 ft | |
| MOLL | 042 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 77 ft | 92 ft | |
| MOLL | 043 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 58 ft | 84 ft | |
| MOLL | 044 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 36 ft | 88 ft | |
| MOLL | 045 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 59 ft | 131 ft | |
| MOLL | 046 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 36 ft | 108 ft | |
| MOLL | 047 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 29 ft | 189 ft | |
| MOLL | 048 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 29 ft | 218 ft |
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 26 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Little Maud CampgroundWhite River National Forest · 0.0 mi
Ruedi Marina CampgroundWhite River National Forest · 0.3 mi
Little Mattie CampgroundWhite River National Forest · 0.3 mi
Dearhamer CampgroundWhite River National Forest · 4.2 mi
Chapman Campground and GroupWhite River National Forest · 11 miElk Wallow CampgroundWhite River National Forest · 11 miTake I-70 west of Denver to Glenwood Springs Exit 116, Highway 82 to Basalt. At Basalt, take Frying Pan Road 15 miles to the Ruedi Complex Entrance. Take a right, then a left, and proceed to second campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Woody Creek, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 29°F, day 60°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 9°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Mollie B_white River 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 →