One Mile
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $36From, per site
- Sites
- 18All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
One Mile Campground is located 18 miles from Gunnison, CO in the Taylor River Canyon. Visitors enjoy the area for its rafting, fishing and trail opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
The Taylor River can be accessed from the campground, and offers a calm stretch for rafting and kayaking. Anglers cast for rainbow and brook trout. The Fossil Ridge Wilderness Area is nearby. The Summerville and South Lottis trailheads provide access to the scenic, natural area. A number of off-road trails are found in the surrounding area, including Doctor Park Trail, Taylor River Trail and Taylor Vista Trail.
Facilities
The campground offers single-family campsites, all of which have electric hookups. Several sites are also accessible. Each site is equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring. Vault toilets are available but currently there is no drinking water. Please bring your own water or fill up at Lottis Creek Campground.
Natural Features
The campground lies on the banks of the Taylor River, at an elevation of 8,600 feet. Most sites are shaded by a stand of lodgepole pine and aspen trees. Summer temperatures are warm in the day and cool at night.
Nearby Attractions
Taylor Park Reservoir is approximately 13 miles from the campground, offering boating, fishing and swimming opportunities. A boat ramp and boat rentals are available there as well. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (928) 537-8888.
What the agency tells you
WATER IS NOT AVAILABLE at this campground - Please bring your own water or fill up at Lottis Creek Campground
Standard Single Family sites: Recreation Use Fee allows ONE camping unit ONLY.
Late Arrivals: campers are not considered a "no-show" until 24 hours after arrival date check in time. Our policy is that your site will not be released before that.
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Nearest dump station is approximately 16 miles north
Extra Vehicles: Cannot be paid for in advance - upon arrival coordinate with the host for payment and where to park.
FIRST COME FIRST SERVE sites must be booked in person. DO NOT call to determine availability, as they are only available on-site.
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.
Click here for more information on the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests
Opening and closing dates are weather permitting, please call 928-537-8888 for more information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 18
- Hookups
- 18 electric
- Longest rig
- 99 ft
- Accessible sites
- 3
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…with a picnic table and campfire ring. Vault toilets are available but currently there is no drinking…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…toilets are available but currently there is no drinking water. Please bring your own water or fill up at Lottis…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, River, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 173rd darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 14 days ago, 30 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $36 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.
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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
29 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 18 mapped sitesAll 29 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 18 of the 29 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. 18 of the 29 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.
| MANAGEMENT | XXX | unnamed record | 99 ft | yes | $33.97 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX1 | unnamed record | $33.97 | ||||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX10 | unnamed record | $33.97 | ||||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX2 | unnamed record | $33.97 | ||||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX3 | unnamed record | $33.97 | ||||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX4 | unnamed record | $33.97 | ||||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX5 | unnamed record | $33.97 | ||||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX6 | unnamed record | $33.97 | ||||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX7 | unnamed record | $33.97 | ||||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX8 | unnamed record | $33.97 | ||||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX9 | unnamed record | $33.97 | ||||||
| ONE | 001 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | 194 ft | 313 ft | 422 ft | $36 | |
| ONE | 002 | standard electric | 40 ft | 15/30 amp | 181 ft | 408 ft | 228 ft | $36 | |
| ONE | 005 | rv electric | 40 ft | 15/30 amp | yes | 169 ft | 440 ft | 52 ft | $36 |
| ONE | 006 | standard electric | 40 ft | 15/30 amp | 27 ft | 396 ft | 120 ft | $36 | |
| ONE | 007 | rv electric | 99 ft | 15/30 amp | 27 ft | 373 ft | 139 ft | $36 | |
| ONE | 008 | rv electric | 99 ft | 15/30 amp | 75 ft | 323 ft | 260 ft | $36 | |
| ONE | 009 | standard electric | 45 ft | 15/30 amp | 29 ft | 331 ft | 348 ft | $36 | |
| ONE | 010 | standard electric | 30 ft | 15/30 amp | 29 ft | 311 ft | 333 ft | $36 | |
| ONE | 012 | rv electric | 35 ft | 15/30 amp | 108 ft | 277 ft | 518 ft | $36 | |
| ONE | 013 | standard electric | 45 ft | 15/30 amp | 109 ft | 333 ft | 455 ft | $36 | |
| ONE | 014 | rv electric | 45 ft | 15/30 amp | 108 ft | 340 ft | 552 ft | $36 | |
| ONE | 015 | standard electric | 99 ft | 15/30 amp | 45 ft | 308 ft | 516 ft | $36 | |
| ONE | 016 | standard electric | 40 ft | 15/30 amp | 45 ft | 294 ft | 499 ft | $36 | |
| ONE | 017 | rv electric | 40 ft | 15/30 amp | 75 ft | 290 ft | 514 ft | $36 | |
| ONE | 020 | rv electric | 30 ft | 15/30 amp | 277 ft | 292 ft | 230 ft | $36 | |
| ONE | 021 | rv electric | 35 ft | 15/30 amp | yes | 66 ft | 320 ft | 64 ft | $36 |
| ONE | 022 | rv electric | 30 ft | 15/30 amp | yes | 52 ft | 351 ft | 114 ft | $36 |
| ONE | 023 | standard electric | 99 ft | 15/30 amp | 52 ft | 335 ft | 164 ft | $36 |
The agency files 11 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 29 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
From Gunnison, Colo., travel north on Colorado Highway 135 for 10 miles, to Almont. Turn right onto Taylor Canyon Road and proceed just over 8 miles to the campground entrance, which is on the right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Gunnison, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 25°F, day 54°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night -8°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
One Mile 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 →