Peaceful Valley
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $18.75–$37.50Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 16All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Peaceful Valley Campground is situated in a glacial valley, on the banks of the Middle Saint Vrain Creek at an elevation of 8,500 feet in northern Colorado. The campground has some conifer trees with open grassy areas. Keep reading
Recreation
The Middle Saint Vrain Creek is a good fly-fishing stream where anglers cast for rainbow, brown and cutthroat trout. Many trails in the vicinity are open to hiking and biking, including Sourdough and Buchanan Pass Trails. Mountain biking is allowed on the first five miles of Buchanan Pass Trail. The Bunce School Roads are popular among off-road enthusiasts.
Facilities
There are 17 sites in the campground. Nine are suitable for RV camping and eight are more suitable for tents. Each site has a picnic table, fire ring and grill. The maximum vehicle length that can be accommodated is 45 feet, although no utility hookups are available. There is a maximum of eight people per site; site #17 is oversized and will accommodate ten people. The roads in the campground are paved. There is one hand pump with potable water, trash dumpsters, vault toilets and firewood is for sale.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the banks of the Middle Saint Vrain Creek in the mostly flat, glacial Peaceful Valley. A mixed conifer and aspen forest covers the area. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 529-0578.
Nearby Attractions
Rocky Mountain National Parkâ??s main entrance is 24 miles north in Estes Park. Estes Park is a full-service community.
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
No RV water connections are available. Utility hookups are not available; the nearest showers are 12 miles away, at Meeker Park Lodge.
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
Sites may be available on a first-come, first-served basis outside of the reservation season
Everything else this campground posts · 9
https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/arp for more information on the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forest
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
- 16 · 5 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- 10
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…with potable water, trash dumpsters, vault toilets and firewood is for sale. Natural Features The…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…the campground are paved. There is one hand pump with potable water, trash dumpsters, vault toilets…”
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Night sky · 493rd darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, 9.8 km away
- Peak color
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 14:45 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.
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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, $18.75–$37.50 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
recreation.gov availability, read 14:45 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
16 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 16 mapped sitesAll 16 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 16 of the 16 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. 16 of the 16 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.
| PEAC | 001 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 69 ft | 129 ft | 71 ft | $18.75–$37.50 | |
| PEAC | 002 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 61 ft | 146 ft | 52 ft | $18.75–$37.50 |
| PEAC | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 31 ft | 178 ft | 68 ft | $18.75–$37.50 |
| PEAC | 004 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 31 ft | 207 ft | 79 ft | $18.75–$37.50 |
| PEAC | 005 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 44 ft | 266 ft | 82 ft | $18.75–$37.50 |
| PEAC | 006 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 44 ft | 240 ft | 87 ft | $18.75–$37.50 |
| PEAC | 007 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 116 ft | 143 ft | 205 ft | $18.75–$37.50 |
| PEAC | 009 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 64 ft | 253 ft | 141 ft | $18.75–$37.50 |
| PEAC | 010 | walk to | 75 ft | 194 ft | 109 ft | $18.75 | ||
| PEAC | 011 | walk to | 75 ft | 120 ft | 151 ft | $18.75 | ||
| PEAC | 012 | walk to | 59 ft | 126 ft | 117 ft | $18.75 | ||
| PEAC | 013 | walk to | 59 ft | 182 ft | 60 ft | $18.75 | ||
| PEAC | 014 | walk to | 73 ft | 202 ft | 88 ft | $18.75 | ||
| PEAC | 015 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 64 ft | 306 ft | 109 ft | $18.75–$37.50 |
| PEAC | 016 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 83 ft | 326 ft | 85 ft | $18.75–$37.50 |
| PEAC | 017 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 73 ft | 255 ft | 136 ft | $18.75–$37.50 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Camp DickRoosevelt National Forest · 0.7 mi
PawneeRoosevelt National Forest · 3.2 mi
Pawnee CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 4.8 mi
Olive RidgeRoosevelt National Forest · 5.4 mi
Meeker Park Overflow CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 7.8 miRainbow Lakes CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 9.1 miFrom Denver, go north on Interstate 25 to U.S. Highway 36 west. Continue on U.S. 36 through Boulder to Lyons. Take Colorado Highway 7 and go approximately 12 miles, then Colorado Highway 72 for approximately 4 miles.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Hidden Lake, 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
Peaceful Valley 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 →