Osprey (CO)
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $24From, per site
- Sites
- 13All of them booked ahead
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Recreation Great fishing in the South Platte River Facilities This campground has 13 campsites (8 campsites are first come first served and 5 are reservable) available for tent camping only. At an elevation of 6,200 feet, it is open year-round. This campground has picnic table and fire ring at each campsite. Portable toilets are available during peak season. There is no water available in this campground. You must bring all water needed for the duration of your stay. All dates are weather dependent. Visitors may expect full service from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day weekend. The area also has an extended season when services such as trash or a host may not be available during the fall, winter and spring. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.
What the agency tells you
This campground is for TENTS only! No RV's or travel trailers!
First 2 cars are included in the camping fee, all others are charged an $11.00/night fee.
Porta potties are available
Everything else this campground posts · 3
There is no water available in this campground. You must bring all water needed for the duration of your stay.
These campsites are along the river. There are no individual parking spurs but one big dirt parking lot. You park the car and walk-in to your campsite.
Campsites are very close to each other.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 13 · 13 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Portable Toilets
- “…table and fire ring at each campsite. Portable toilets are available during peak season. There is no water…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…are available during peak season. There is no water available in this campground. You must bring all…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Fall color · reported 10 days ago, 26 km away
- No change
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:41 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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 · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $24 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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:41 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
13 sites
All 13 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. 13 of the 13 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Osprey | 01 | tent only nonelectric | $24 |
| Osprey | 02 | tent only nonelectric | $24 |
| Osprey | 03 | tent only nonelectric | $24 |
| Osprey | 04 | tent only nonelectric | $24 |
| Osprey | 05 | tent only nonelectric | $24 |
| Osprey | 06 | tent only nonelectric | $24 |
| Osprey | 07 | tent only nonelectric | $24 |
| Osprey | 08 | tent only nonelectric | $24 |
| Osprey | 09 | tent only nonelectric | $24 |
| Osprey | 10 | tent only nonelectric | $24 |
| Osprey | 11 | tent only nonelectric | $24 |
| Osprey | 12 | tent only nonelectric | $24 |
| Osprey | 13 | tent only nonelectric | $24 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
OuzelPike National Forest · 2.0 miPlatte RiverPike National Forest · 3.9 miIndian Creek CampgroundPike National Forest · 4.7 mi
Indian Creek Equestrian CampgroundPike National Forest · 4.7 miFlat Rocks CampgroundPike National Forest · 4.8 mi
Rampart Range Recreation Area Designated Dispersed CampingPike National Forest · 4.8 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Roxborough Park, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 64°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 14°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
Osprey (CO) is in Colorado’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Lauren Boebert (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →