Olive Ridge
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $29–$58Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 5653 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Olive Ridge Campground is located within the Roosevelt National Forest, situated near the southeastern corner of Rocky Mountain National Park at an elevation of 8,350 feet. Keep reading
Recreation
Olive Ridge is close to the Wild Basin area of the Rocky Mountain National Park. Several trailheads are in the area, including Wild Basin, Finch Lake and Sandbeach Lake trails. Popular activities include fishing, hiking and mountain climbing.
Facilities
There are 56 sites in the campground. Twenty six are suitable for RV camping and 30 are more suitable for tents. Tents must be confined to the provided tent pads (14'x16'). There is a maximum of eight people per single site. Sites #26 and #39 are oversized and will accommodate 10 people at an additional fee. Each site has a picnic table and fire ring or grill. Vault toilets, and trash services are provided. Firewood is for sale in the campground.
Natural Features
This peaceful campground is heavily wooded with a mixture of ponderosa pine and aspen trees. The interior roads are gravel/dirt. Afternoon thunderstorms should be expected during the summer months.
Nearby Attractions
Rocky Mountain National Park's main entrance is 14 miles north of the campground, in Estes Park. With lush valleys and craggy peaks reaching elevations higher than 14,000 feet, visitors are provided opportunities for countless breathtaking experiences and adventures. Scenic driving, hiking, backpacking, fishing, horseback riding and wildlife viewing are popular activities in the park. Estes Park is a full-service community 15 miles from the campground. Dining, shopping, rafting, fly fishing, horseback riding and golfing opportunities await. Lake Estes offers boating, sailboarding and fishing. 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
There are not utility or water hook-ups, dump stations, or showers within the campground.
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
https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/arp for more information on the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests
Everything else this campground posts · 8
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. All campsites with a tent pad have a bear locker. RVs, trailers or other vehicles must fit on the parking spur. Driving or parking off road is not permitted.
Pets must be on a hand-held leash at all times.
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
- 56 · 2 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…a picnic table and fire ring or grill. Vault toilets, and trash services are provided. Firewood is for…”
- 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
- Lake
- Hiking
- Night sky · 484th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 2 days ago, 3.6 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 53 of the 56 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 · 16
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, $29–$58 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 Oct 1, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
56 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 53 mapped sitesAll 56 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 53 of the 56 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. 56 of the 56 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| DIPP | 001 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 41 ft | 1,164 ftFox Creek | 371 ft | $29–$58 | |
| DIPP | 002 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 87 ft | 1,196 ftFox Creek | 244 ft | $29–$58 | |
| DIPP | 003 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 87 ft | 1,253 ft | 218 ft | $29–$58 | |
| DIPP | 004 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 43 ft | 1,276 ft | 227 ft | $29–$58 | |
| DIPP | 005 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 43 ft | 1,278 ft | 233 ft | $29–$58 | |
| DIPP | 006 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 50 ft | 1,312 ft | 282 ft | $29–$58 | |
| DIPP | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 50 ft | 1,353 ft | 300 ft | $29–$58 | |
| DIPP | 008 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 68 ft | 1,362 ft | 321 ft | $29–$58 | |
| DIPP | 009 | type not stated | 50 ft | 50 amp | $29 | |||
| DIPP | 010 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 35 ft | 1,416 ft | 253 ft | $29–$58 | |
| DIPP | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 35 ft | 1,412 ft | 235 ft | $29–$58 | |
| DIPP | 012 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 37 ft | 1,449 ft | 203 ft | $29–$58 | |
| DIPP | 013 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 35 ft | 1,616 ft | 85 ft | $29–$58 | |
| DIPP | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 35 ft | 1,613 ft | 93 ft | $29–$58 | |
| DIPP | 015 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 73 ft | 1,549 ft | 162 ft | $29–$58 | |
| DIPP | 016 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 75 ft | 1,450 ft | 262 ft | $29–$58 | |
| DIPP | 017 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 75 ft | 1,403 ft | 236 ft | $29–$58 | |
| DIPP | 018 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 45 ft | 1,419 ft | 131 ft | $29–$58 | |
| DIPP | 019 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 45 ft | 1,378 ft | 97 ft | $29–$58 | |
| DIPP | 020 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 80 ft | 1,447 ft | 98 ft | $29–$58 | |
| DIPP | 021 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 50 ft | 1,408 ft | 115 ft | $29–$58 | |
| DIPP | 022 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 50 ft | 1,358 ft | 107 ft | $29–$58 | |
| DIPP | 023 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 58 ft | 1,296 ftFox Creek | 257 ft | $29–$58 | |
| DIPP | 024 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 58 ft | 1,245 ftFox Creek | 315 ft | $29–$58 | |
| PIKA | 040 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 84 ft | 1,127 ft | 112 ft | $29–$58 | |
| PIKA | 041 | type not stated | 30 ft | $29 | ||||
| PIKA | 042 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 84 ft | 1,101 ft | 52 ft | $29–$58 | |
| PIKA | 043 | type not stated | 60 ft | $29 | ||||
| PIKA | 044 | rv nonelectric | 24 ft | 84 ft | 1,015 ft | 83 ft | $29 | |
| PIKA | 045 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 44 ft | 998 ft | 159 ft | $29–$58 | |
| PIKA | 046 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 44 ft | 996 ft | 141 ft | $29–$58 | |
| PIKA | 047 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 66 ft | 913 ft | 57 ft | $29–$58 | |
| PIKA | 048 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 66 ft | 848 ft | 25 ft | $29–$58 | |
| PIKA | 049 | tent only nonelectric | 75 ft | 819 ft | 62 ft | $29 | ||
| PIKA | 050 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 26 ft | 809 ft | 146 ft | $29–$58 | |
| PIKA | 051 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 26 ft | 829 ft | 158 ft | $29–$58 | |
| PIKA | 052 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 94 ft | 762 ft | 284 ft | $29 | |
| PIKA | 053 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 104 ft | 788 ft | 172 ft | $29–$58 | |
| PIKA | 054 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 94 ft | 798 ft | 255 ft | $29–$58 | |
| PIKA | 055 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 36 ft | 936 ft | 123 ft | $29–$58 | |
| PIKA | 056 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 36 ft | 930 ft | 145 ft | $29–$58 | |
| SNEE | 025 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 58 ft | 1,135 ftFox Creek | 387 ft | $29–$58 | |
| SNEE | 026 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 41 ft | 1,129 ftFox Creek | 347 ft | $29–$58 | |
| SNEE | 027 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 69 ft | 1,101 ftFox Creek | 285 ft | $29–$58 | |
| SNEE | 028 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 72 ft | 1,055 ftFox Creek | 245 ft | $29–$58 | |
| SNEE | 029 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 57 ft | 960 ftFox Creek | 167 ft | $29–$58 | |
| SNEE | 030 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 57 ft | 932 ftFox Creek | 143 ft | $29–$58 | |
| SNEE | 031 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 73 ft | 865 ftFox Creek | 95 ft | $29–$58 | |
| SNEE | 032 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 94 ft | 760 ftFox Creek | 43 ft | $29–$58 | |
| SNEE | 033 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 94 ft | 721 ftFox Creek | 94 ft | $29–$58 | |
| SNEE | 034 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 36 ft | 730 ftFox Creek | 199 ft | $29–$58 | |
| SNEE | 035 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 36 ft | 703 ftFox Creek | 188 ft | $29–$58 | |
| SNEE | 036 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 19 ft | 691 ftFox Creek | 306 ft | $29–$58 | |
| SNEE | 037 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 19 ft | 708 ftFox Creek | 311 ft | $29–$58 | |
| SNEE | 038 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 84 ft | 721 ftFox Creek | 393 ft | $29–$58 | |
| SNEE | 039 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 223 ft | 942 ftFox Creek | 424 ft | $29–$58 |
25 of 56 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Meeker Park Overflow CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 2.4 mi
Rocky Mountain National Park Longs Peak CampgroundRocky Mountain National Park · 5.0 mi
Peaceful ValleyRoosevelt National Forest · 5.4 mi
Camp DickRoosevelt National Forest · 5.4 mi
PawneeRoosevelt National Forest · 5.8 mi
Rocky Mountain National Park Glacier Basin CampgroundRocky Mountain National Park · 9.1 miThe campground is located on the west side of Colorado Highway 7, between Allenspark and Meeker Park at mile-marker 14. It is approximately six miles north of the intersection of Colorado Highways 7 and 72 (which is 21 miles west-north-west of Lyons), 15 miles south of Estes park, and 29 miles north of Nederland.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Allenspark, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 30°F, day 57°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 16°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
Olive Ridge 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 →