U.S. Forest Service · Gunnison National Forest · CO

Mosca Campground - Gunnison RD

1Heads up1 fire 30 mi away
Wildfire
Willow fire · 30 mi away · 7,359 acres · 92% contained · updated Oct 13, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.

This is how it should work.

Right now
OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
A night
$14From, per site
Season
May 23Opens May 23. No closing date published.
Drawn from the record · 9,980 ft · 20% tree cover · Spring Creek Reservoir within reach · Bortle 2 sky
9,980 ftElevation
397 ftWater · Spring Creek Reservoir
13.6 miE of Crested Butte, CO
20%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 126th darkest of 522 in CO
Opens May 23. No closing date published.Today

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Mosca Campground is located on the banks of Spring Creek Reservoir. A boat ramp and fishing site are located within the campground. Mountain bikers, hikers and four-wheel drive enthusiasts will enjoy this location and the variety of trail and roads its offers. There are 16 campsites.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Boat ramp
Yes
Source: Stated in the agency description

Around the campground

On the water
Reservoir, Creek
Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 25 km away
Peak color
Source: Stated in the agency description
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (25 km) · Oct 3, 2026

Nothing to book, just show up

One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $14 with nothing added. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.

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.

BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
A night$14Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$28DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 8

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night, from$14
Night per camping unit$14
Day for day use/picnic use in a campsite$6
Firewood bundle .$10
This campground is not reservable.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$14
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$28

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($14), 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
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today51°Sunny
Tonight26°Clear
Saturday55°Sunny
Saturday Night29°Mostly Clear

NWS forecast for Mount Crested Butte, CO

Typical weather

Typical May night 29°F, day 58°F.

Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 29°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

80°32°-20°

Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season

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.

Measured at: TAYLOR PARK, CO (USC00058184), 6 miles away and 801 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

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You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Who answers for this land

Jeff Hurd, official portrait

Mosca Campground - Gunnison RD 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: Today falls inside the season the agency publishes, and it has posted nothing else. That reading is ours. The U.S. Forest Service’s own database, though, flags it not open with no reason or date; the flag is named under How we know all this.
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (25 km) · Oct 3, 2026
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.
Nearest place of any size: Mount Crested Butte, CO, 12.8 mi ESE. Straight line.