North Crestone Creek Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Season
- May 1 – November 30Open May 1 through November 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
The campground stretches 0.7 mile up a mountain, along North Crestone Creek and offers 13 sites, 1 site is pull through. It is a rustic area with first come / first served camping sites nestled among Aspen, Juniper, Fir, and other riparian-loving trees. Because the sites are so far apart, each site has a feeling of secluded wilderness camping. Secure bear resistant food lockers available at all sites. Please don't use the food lockers as trash disposal. The campground is near to the Town of Crestone.
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
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 $10 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.
Every line of the receipt · 7
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($10), 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
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Alvarado CampgroundSan Isabel National Forest · 7.1 mi
Duncan CabinRio Grande National Forest · 11 miLake Creek (Co)San Isabel National Forest · 17 mi
Medano Pass Primitive Road CampsitesGreat Sand Dunes National Preserve · 18 mi
Backpacking Campsites in the Dunes or ForestGreat Sand Dunes National Park · 19 mi
Pinon Flats CampgroundGreat Sand Dunes National Park · 21 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Crestone, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 60°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical November night 19°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 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.
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
North Crestone Creek Campground 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 →