U.S. Forest Service · Roosevelt National Forest · CO
Narrows Campground: Upper and Lower
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
6,460 ftElevation
263 ftWater · Cache la Poudre River
13.6 miNW of Laporte, CO
0%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 441st darkest of 522 in CO
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
The Narrows Campground is split into two sections, Upper and Lower. The Upper is located 32 miles northwest of Fort Collins on Colorado Highway 14, this campground is adjacent to the Cache la Poudre River. The area varies from dense forest to open meadow and is surrounded by steep mountains. Each of the seven sites contain a tent pad, fire grate and picnic table. All campsites with a tent pad have a bear locker. Popular activities include fishing, white water rafting and hiking. There is a day-use area associated with this facility providing six picnic sites each with a picnic table and grill. Keep reading
The Lower is located along Colorado Highway 14 adjacent to the Cache la Poudre River. This is a walk-in tent camping area with eight sites. Foot paths lead to the individual campsites. Each site has a tent pad, picnic table and fire grate. All campsites with a tent pad have a bear locker. This campground is situated in a ponderosa pine setting near the river. In addition to camping, fishing is the primary activity at this area. View a campground map .
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Source: Stated in the agency description
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Meadow
- Fall color · reported 14 days ago, 29 km away
- Past peak
Source: Stated in the agency description
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (29 km) · Oct 2, 2026
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.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 6
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
Check detailed fee information on www.recreation.gov or see general fees on our campground table .
Fees are discounted 25% when water is off.
Interagency Senior, Interagency Access, Golden Age and Golden Access passes provide cardholders half price for basic campground fees.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
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Mountain ParkRoosevelt National Forest · 2.1 mi
Kelly Flats CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 2.8 mi
Ansel WatrousRoosevelt National Forest · 4.3 mi
Narrows (CO)Roosevelt National Forest · 0.0 miDutch George CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 0.9 miStove PrairieRoosevelt National Forest · 1.9 miMountain ParkRoosevelt National Forest · 2.1 miKelly Flats CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 2.8 miAnsel WatrousRoosevelt National Forest · 4.3 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Today55°Sunny
Tonight35°Clear
Saturday73°Sunny
Saturday Night42°Mostly Clear
NWS forecast for Red Feather Lakes, CO
Source: National Weather Service, BOU forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
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.
90°32°10°
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.
Measured at: BUCKHORN MTN 1 E, CO (USC00051060), 9 miles away and 940 ft higher
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.
Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026
Who answers for this land
Narrows Campground: Upper and Lower 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 16, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (29 km) · Oct 2, 2026
Reported by: iNaturalist fall color observations, reported past peak · Oct 2, 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: Red Feather Lakes, CO, 9 mi SE (a census designated place). Straight line.