Narrows (CO)
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $29From, per site
- Sites
- 1514 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
Narrows Campground is located on the Cache la Poudre River, 32 miles northwest of Fort Collins, Colorado, 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. Other popular activities include birding and wildlife viewing.
Facilities
The campground offers accessible single-family sites, including eight walk-to tent sites. Each site is equipped with a 12x15' tent pad, a picnic table and a campfire ring with grill. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. 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. The campground is situated among ponderosa pine and aspen trees on the banks of the Cache la Poudre River, Colorado's first National Wild and Scenic River. The lower loop drops off steeply to the 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
Drinking water is available at the campground until Sept. 30. RV water connections are not available. Utility hookups 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
Off-road vehicle use is prohibited within the campground
Everything else this campground posts · 10
Sites may be available on a first-come, first-served basis before and after the reservation season
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.
Upper Narrows: Tents must fit on the pads provided. RVs, trailers or other vehicles must fit on the parking spur because driving or parking off road is not permitted. The parking length ranges from 30 to 50 feet. Lower Narrows: Parking spaces provided separate from the campsites.
All campsites with a tent pad have a bear locker.
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
- 15 · 8 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Paved pads
- 1 of 15
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…table and a campfire ring with grill. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Dead and downed…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…ring with grill. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Dead and downed firewood may be…”
- Firewood
- Sold here
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Meadow
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Mountain biking
- Rafting
- Water sports
- Whitewater rafting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 440th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 2 days ago, 33 km away
- No change
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 14 of the 15 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 · 14
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 rate for this season, $29 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
15 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 14 mapped sitesAll 15 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. 14 of the 15 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| LOWER | 008 | tent only nonelectric | 59 ft | 110 ft | $29 | |
| LOWER | 009 | tent only nonelectric | 58 ft | 75 ft | $29 | |
| LOWER | 010 | tent only nonelectric | 48 ft | 95 ft | $29 | |
| LOWER | 011 | tent only nonelectric | 58 ft | 22 ft | $29 | |
| LOWER | 012 | tent only nonelectric | 52 ft | 76 ft | $29 | |
| LOWER | 013 | tent only nonelectric | 44 ft | 24 ft | $29 | |
| LOWER | 014 | tent only nonelectric | 44 ft | under 10 ft | $29 | |
| LOWER | 015 | tent only nonelectric | 48 ft | 60 ft | $29 | |
| UPPER | 001 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 72 ft | 132 ft | $29 |
| UPPER | 002 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 67 ft | 152 ft | $29 |
| UPPER | 003 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 67 ft | 150 ft | $29 |
| UPPER | 004 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 60 ft | 157 ft | $29 |
| UPPER | 005 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 60 ft | 162 ft | $29 |
| UPPER | 006 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 71 ft | 159 ft | $29 |
| UPPER | 007 | type not stated | 60 ft | 186 ft |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Dutch George CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 0.8 mi
Stove PrairieRoosevelt National Forest · 1.9 mi
Mountain ParkRoosevelt National Forest · 2.0 mi
Kelly Flats CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 2.7 mi
Ansel WatrousRoosevelt National Forest · 4.4 miFrom Fort Collins, take Highway 14 northwest for 32 miles.
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
Narrows (CO) 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 →