Mountain Park
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $41–$81Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 5330 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Mountain Park Campground is located on the Cache la Poudre River, 40 miles northwest of Fort Collins, Colo., along Highway 14. Visitors enjoy the area for its great rafting, fishing and hiking opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
The Cache La Poudre River offers whitewater rafting and fishing. Anglers cast for brown, cutthroat and rainbow trout. Hiking, biking and horseback riding trails are in the surrounding area, including the Mt. McConnel Trail, William R. Kreutzer National Recreation Trail and Young Gulch Trail. Volleyball and basketball courts, a playground and horseshoe pits are located in the campground. Other popular activities include birding and wildlife viewing.
Facilities
The campground offers accessible single- and double-family sites, and a group site that can accommodate up to 75 people. Sites 1 through 32 have electric hookups. Sites 33 through 54 do not have hookups. Picnic tables, 12x15' tent pads, campfire rings and grills are provided, as are vault toilets and drinking water. Coin showers are located on-site. Dead and downed firewood may be gathered in the forest or purchased from the host.
Natural Features
The canyon's vegetation varies from dense forests to open meadows, surrounded by steep mountains. A forest of ponderosa pine trees covers the campground, which is situated on the banks of the Cache la Poudre River, Colorado's first National Wild and Scenic River. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 529-0578.
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
RV water and sewer connections are not available. Come with your RV/trailer water tank filled. Filling at campground hydrants cross-contaminates the system and is not allowed.
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
Additional sites may be available on a first-come, first-served basis before, during and after the reservation season
Everything else this campground posts · 8
https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/arp for more information on the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests
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.
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 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 camp host if you did not pay for the Extra Vehicle Add On. 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. Extra vehicles must fit on the parking spur at your site.
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.
Tents must fit on the pads provided. RVs, trailers or other vehicles must fit on the parking spur. Driving or parking off road is not permitted. The parking length ranges from 35 to 45 feet.
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
- 53 · 1 group
- Hookups
- 29 electric
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- 29
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…rings and grills are provided, as are vault toilets and drinking water. Coin showers are located…”
- Showers
- Coin Showers
- “Coin showers are located on-site.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…are provided, as are vault toilets and drinking water. Coin showers are located on-site. Dead and downed…”
- Playground
- Yes
- 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, Meadow
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Rafting
- Water sports
- Whitewater rafting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 429th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 2 days ago, 32 km away
- No change
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 30 of the 53 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 · 15
What you actually pay
“Any additional vehicles will be charged $8.00 per vehicle per night and will be collected by the camp host if you did not pay for the Extra Vehicle Add On.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $41–$81 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. 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.
“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
57 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 30 mapped sitesAll 57 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 53 of the 57 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 53 of the 57 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| BEAR | 001 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 108 ft | 464 ft | 206 ft | $41–$81 |
| BEAR | 002 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 105 ft | 510 ft | 179 ft | $41–$81 |
| BEAR | 003 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 85 ft | 533 ft | 227 ft | $41–$81 |
| BEAR | 004 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 85 ft | 536 ft | 272 ft | $41–$81 |
| BEAR | 005 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 113 ft | 542 ft | 187 ft | $41–$81 |
| BEAR | 006 | type not stated | 40 ft | 50/30 amp | 247 ft | 195 ft | $30 | ||
| BEAR | 007 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 79 ft | 225 ft | 262 ft | $41–$81 |
| BEAR | 008 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 73 ft | 303 ft | 255 ft | $41–$81 |
| BEAR | 009 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 67 ft | 181 ft | 291 ft | $41–$81 |
| BEAR | 010 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 77 ft | 261 ft | 208 ft | $41–$81 |
| BEAR | 011 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 67 ft | 172 ft | 229 ft | $41–$81 |
| BEAR | 012 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 59 ft | 239 ft | 136 ft | $41–$81 |
| BEAR | 013 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 66 ft | 174 ft | 149 ft | $41–$81 |
| BEAR | 014 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 59 ft | 249 ft | 77 ft | $41–$81 |
| BEAR | 015 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 68 ft | 207 ft | 59 ft | $41–$81 |
| BEAR | 016 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 67 ft | 319 ft | 108 ft | $41–$81 |
| BEAR | 017/018 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 98 ft | 409 ft | 159 ft | $41–$81 |
| BEAR | 019 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 67 ft | 346 ft | 175 ft | $41–$81 |
| BEAR | 020 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 73 ft | 448 ft | 253 ft | $41–$81 |
| BEAR | 021 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 73 ft | 376 ft | 239 ft | $41–$81 |
| BEAR | 022 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 58 ft | 379 ft | 143 ft | $41–$81 |
| BEAR | 023 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 93 ft | 466 ft | 116 ft | $41–$81 |
| BEAR | 024 | standard electric | 24 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 58 ft | 322 ft | 162 ft | $41–$81 |
| GRP | 1 | group standard area nonelectric | yes | 355 ft | 150 ft | 65 ft | $185 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 033 | type not stated | 195 ft | 245 ft | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 034 | type not stated | 120 ft | 99 ft | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 035 | type not stated | 137 ft | 71 ft | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 036 | type not stated | 226 ft | 24 ft | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 037 | type not stated | 137 ft | 140 ft | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 038 | type not stated | 123 ft | 267 ft | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 040 | type not stated | 128 ft | 164 ft | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 041 | type not stated | 205 ft | 59 ft | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 042 | type not stated | 122 ft | 100 ft | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 043 | type not stated | 116 ft | 70 ft | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 044 | type not stated | 105 ft | 62 ft | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 045 | type not stated | 215 ft | 48 ft | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 046 | type not stated | 197 ft | 61 ft | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 047 | type not stated | 96 ft | 126 ft | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 048 | type not stated | 96 ft | 197 ft | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 049 | type not stated | 177 ft | 228 ft | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 050 | type not stated | 73 ft | 283 ft | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 051 | type not stated | 76 ft | 345 ft | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 052 | type not stated | 41 ft | 413 ft | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 053 | type not stated | 17 ft | 476 ft | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 054 | type not stated | 47 ft | 545 ft | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 055 | type not stated | 147 ft | 340 ft | $30 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX | unnamed record | yes | $30 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX23 | unnamed record | $30 | ||||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX24 | unnamed record | $30 | ||||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX25 | unnamed record | $30 | ||||||
| MCCO | 026 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 145 ft | 349 ft | 209 ft | $41–$81 |
| MCCO | 027 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 103 ft | 372 ft | 125 ft | $41–$81 |
| MCCO | 028 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 70 ft | 400 ft | 86 ft | $41–$81 |
| MCCO | 029 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 70 ft | 469 ft | 22 ft | $41–$81 |
| MCCO | 030 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 80 ft | 484 ft | 89 ft | $41–$81 |
| MCCO | 031 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50/30 amp | yes | 80 ft | 526 ft | 156 ft | $41–$81 |
| MCCO | 032 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30 amp | 134 ft | 454 ft | 257 ft | $41–$81 |
The agency files 4 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 57 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Kelly Flats CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 0.7 mi
Dutch George CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 1.5 mi
Narrows (CO)Roosevelt National Forest · 2.0 miNarrows Campground: Upper and LowerRoosevelt National Forest · 2.1 mi
Stove PrairieRoosevelt National Forest · 3.8 mi
Jacks GulchRoosevelt National Forest · 4.4 miFrom Fort Collins, travel west on Colorado Highway 14, to Ted's Place, and continue up the Poudre Canyon to mile marker 98.8.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Red Feather Lakes, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 57°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 20°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
Mountain Park 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 →