Pine Point (Vallecito Reservoir, CO)
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $31–$39Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 29All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Pine Point Campground is situated next to Vallecito Reservoir in southwestern Colorado. Visitors enjoy the area for its beautiful scenery and wide range of recreational activities, including boating, fishing and hiking. Keep reading
Recreation
Vallecito Reservoir is a very popular fishing lake, with anglers casting for German brown trout, cutthroat trout, rainbow trout, kokanee salmon and northern pike. Boating, water skiing and canoeing are popular activities. A sheltered area for boats and an open play area are just south of the campground. A variety of hiking and horseback riding trails are found in the area. The North Canyon Trail climbs through ponderosa pine and aspen forests. A short side trail leads to a scenic overlook of the lake. East Creek Trail provides access to a lightly used, scenic drainage where fly-fisherman can be seen casting for brook trout.
Facilities
The campground offers single-family sites, each equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided.
Natural Features
The Vallecito lake, which is Spanish for "little valley," sits at an elevation of 7,900 feet. A scenic forest of ponderosa pine covers the campground, which offers many shaded, lakefront sites with easy access to the shore. High peaks of the San Juan Mountains are visible to the northwest of the campground. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee including tax and applicable add-on for a campsite. Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee. No-Shows A no-show visitor is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. Staff will hold a campsite until check-out time on the day following the arrival date. No-shows are assessed $20.00 service fee and forfeit the first night's rate, taxes and applicable add-on for a campsite. Refunds Visitors may submit a refund request through their Recreation.gov profile within 7 days of the end date of their reservation. Refunds will not be issued after the 7 days has ended. Refunds for debit or credit card payments will be issued as a credit to the original bank or credit card used to pay. For check or cash purchases, Recreation.gov will mail a Treasury check for refunds of cash, check, or money order payments to the address associated with the reservation. Treasury check refunds may take up to 6-8 weeks to arrive. In the event of an emergency closure, the Recreation.gov team or facility manager will refund all fees and will attempt to notify you using the contact information within the Recreation.gov visitor profile.
What the agency tells you
Click here for more information on the San Juan National Forest
First Come First Served (FCFS) Campsites are also available at this campground. These campsites must be claimed in person. The contact center is unable to provide the availability by phone, so we recommend arriving early to secure a spot.
For general information about the San Juan National Forest, please call (970) 884-2512. Campsite availability is not available at this phone number
Everything else this campground posts · 1
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 29
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 5 of 30 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and campfire ring. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features The Vallecito lake,…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 208th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 9 days ago, 3.6 km away
- Patchy 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 rates for this season, $31–$39 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.
“Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee including tax and applicable add-on for a cam…” · this campground’s own no-show 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
30 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 30 mapped sitesAll 30 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 29 of the 30 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 87 ft | 219 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 87 ft | 289 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 75 ft | 183 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 75 ft | 245 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 007 - HOST | host pad | 30 ft | 70 ft | 163 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 70 ft | 216 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 94 ft | 135 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 79 ft | 168 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 80 ft | under 10 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 80 ft | 31 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 86 ft | under 10 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 86 ft | 26 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 64 ft | under 10 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 64 ft | 46 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 74 ft | under 10 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 85 ft | under 10 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 85 ft | 18 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 67 ft | 219 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 021 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 78 ft | 145 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 022 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 67 ft | 245 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 91 ft | 154 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 024 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 92 ft | 221 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 025 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 92 ft | 139 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 026 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 83 ft | 147 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 027 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 71 ft | 165 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 028 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 71 ft | 138 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 029 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 91 ft | 227 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 030 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 86 ft | 320 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 031 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 64 ft | 396 ft | $31–$39 |
| PINE POINT CAMPGROUND | 032 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 64 ft | 360 ft | $31–$39 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 30 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Pine Point CampgroundSan Juan National Forest · 0.0 mi
North Canyon CampgroundSan Juan National Forest · 0.5 mi
Middle MountainSan Juan National Forest · 0.6 mi
Graham Creek CampgroundSan Juan National Forest · 0.7 mi
Pine RiverSan Juan National Forest · 3.6 mi
Vallecito CampgroundSan Juan National Forest · 5.4 miFrom Bayfield, Colorado, turn north on County Road 501 for about 13 miles, to the Vallecito area. Turn right on County Road 501A and travel almost 4 miles to the campground, which is located on the left side of the road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Bayfield, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 30°F, day 61°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 7°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
Pine Point (Vallecito Reservoir, CO) 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 →