Radium Recreation Area
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $25From, per site
- Sites
- 18All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Managed By Kremmling Field Office The Radium Recreation Area is part of the Upper Colorado River Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA), providing opportunities for developed camping and river access. With over 100,000 annual visitors the sites facilities include 2 developed boat ramp sites, 9 vault toilets, day use and overnight parking, 16 single campsites and 2 Group Campsites and 3 day use shade structures. There is no potable water provided at this area. The area is used by visitors to access the river for floatboating and fishing opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Recreation opportunities include river access for fishing and floatboating. On-site picnic shelters provide visitors with opportunities to a covered area for relaxing and picnicking. Note – Radium Warm Springs Access: There are no designated trails from this area and there is no designated access to the Radium Warm Springs. Parking is not permitted along the narrow Radium Road between the Radium Recreation Area and Trough Road to ensure safe passage of vehicles and ensure clear passage for Emergency Vehicles when needed. Please respect the social trail closures and restoration conducted on BLM managed lands along Radium Road that protect area wildlife habitat including area Big Horn Sheep. The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Mugrage Site along Radium Road, including the restroom and social trail that accessed the Radium Warm Springs within the Radium State Wildlife Area, is closed for the protection of this important habitat. The BLM is looking at a potential future designated and developed trail from the Radium Recreation Area. Until a trail alignment along Radium Road is developed it is recommended that the easiest and safest way to access the Radium Warm Springs from Radium Recreation Area is to drive to Warm Springs Road 1.5 northeast along Trough Road. Follow the directional sign located at the intersection of Radium Road and Trough Road. A parking area and trailhead at the end of Warm Springs Road provides access to the Radium Warm Springs via the Warm Springs Trail open to foot travel only, or the Ol’ Warm Springs Trail which is open to Foot, Horse, Bicycle and eBike travel.
Facilities
Each campsite must be reserved through Recreation.gov and has varying space for parking (see parking size limitations before completing your reservation), a picnic table, a fire ring, and close proximity to a vault toilet and trash receptacles. Campsites 1-4 are walk-in sites and have parking for one vehicle without a trailer. Campsites 5-13 have pull through parking areas and can typically fit one to two vehicles and small trailers. Campsites 14-16 have pull in parking and is 30 feet in length or less. Additional vehicles not fitting within a campsite's designated parking must park in the general parking areas. There are no electric hook-ups and cell service non-existent without a booster. There are two boat ramps with restrooms.
Natural Features
The Radium Recreation Area is adjacent to the Colorado River next to the small town of Radium. The scenery within the area is a major component to the adjacent Colorado Headwaters National Scenic and Historic Byway and are important features that make this stretch of river Wild and Scenic Eligible.
Nearby Attractions
The town of Kremmling, CO is approximately 20 miles east from Radium Recreation Area where visitors can get supplies. Rancho Del Rio – a private resort along the Colorado river, has a small store with supplies and is a river access point for those recreating on the river. Rancho Del Rio is located approximately 6 miles west along Trough Road. Trough Road, which accesses the BLM Recreation Areas and Rancho Del Rio (private river access – fee site) is the Colorado Headwaters National Scenic and Historic Byway. Originating just east of Grand Lake on Highway 34, the byway ends at State Bridge.
What the agency tells you
All sites require a reservation through recreation.gov. Camping is limited to 14 consecutive days. Campsites must be attended within 24 hours of the 1st reserved day or may be cancelled. Campsites and personal belongings may not be left unattended for more than 24 hours during a given reservation period or may be cancelled. Single Campsites are limited to a maximum of 10 people and includes the 1st vehicle only. Group Campsites are limited to a maximum of 30 people and includes the 1st vehicle only. Additional vehicles must purchase and display a day use fee for each day onsite or have a valid Federal Agency Issued Season Pass for the Upper Colorado River SRMA, or a valid America The Beautiful Pass. Campsites become available by 1:00pm, after prior occupant leaves. Checkout time is 12:00pm. Any vehicle remaining at the Pumphouse or Radium Recreation Areas after 12:00pm must purchase a day use pass for that day or have a valid Federal Agency Issued Season Pass for the Upper Colorado River SRMA, or a valid America The Beautiful Pass. All vehicles (and any towed trailer) must be parked within the sites assigned parking area and MUST not be within the roadway. Vehicles and trailers are NOT PERMITTED to be parked off of the sites assigned parking areas and must remain on the graveled areas at all times. Vehicles and trailers that do not fit within the sites assigned parking must be parked in campground overflow parking or day use parking. Camping within vehicles in campground overflow parking or day use parking areas is NOT PERMITTED AT ANY TIME. Pets must be leashed or under the direct and immediate voice control of a responsible person at all times. Quiet Hours are between 10:00pm and 6:00am. NO OVERNIGHT MOORING OF ANY WATERCRAFT away from designated boat ramps during camping at Radium Recreation Area. Watercraft must be stored on trailers or within the campsite if not staged at a designated boat ramp. All fires must be fully extinguished when not being attended. Large trash bags should be deposited within the large trash bins located near the changing rooms or entrance to general parking. No dumping of Portable Toilets within the campground restrooms.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 18 · 4 walk-in, 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 18 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Little
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…include 2 developed boat ramp sites, 9 vault toilets, day use and overnight parking, 16 single campsites…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…and 3 day use shade structures. There is no potable water provided at this area. The area is used by visitors…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Fishing
- Paddle Boating
- Picnicking
- Rafting
- Water access
- Whitewater rafting
- Night sky · 268th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 2
- Cell signal · Cell signal · BLM says
- None
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 · 19
What you actually pay
“Campgrounds are closed with no service between December 1 - March 31. • Single Campsites - $25.00 per site - maximum of 10 people • Group Campsites - $75.00 per site - maximum of 30 people • Each reservation includes…” · the Bureau of Land Management’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $25 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
21 records
All 21 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. 14 of the 21 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Radium | 1 - Walk-In Site | walk to | 18 ft | ||
| Radium | 10 | standard nonelectric | $25 | ||
| Radium | 11 | standard nonelectric | $25 | ||
| Radium | 12 | standard nonelectric | $25 | ||
| Radium | 13 | standard nonelectric | $25 | ||
| Radium | 14 | standard nonelectric | $25 | ||
| Radium | 15 | standard nonelectric | $25 | ||
| Radium | 16 | standard nonelectric | yes | $25 | |
| Radium | 2 - Walk-In Site | walk to | 18 ft | ||
| Radium | 3 - Walk-In Site | walk to | 18 ft | ||
| Radium | 4 - Walk-In Site | walk to | 18 ft | ||
| Radium | 5 | standard nonelectric | $25 | ||
| Radium | 6 | standard nonelectric | $25 | ||
| Radium | 7 | standard nonelectric | $25 | ||
| Radium | 8 | standard nonelectric | $25 | ||
| Radium | 9 | standard nonelectric | $25 | ||
| Radium | Group Site A | group standard nonelectric | $75 | ||
| Radium | Group Site B | group standard nonelectric | $75 | ||
| Radium | Ramp 1 Day Use Shelter | day use | $10 | ||
| Radium | Ramp 2 Day Use Shelter | day use | $10 | ||
| Radium | Upper CO Day Use | day use | $10 |
The agency files 3 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Pumphouse Recreation AreaKremmling Field Office · 3.5 miBlacktail Creek CampgroundRoutt National Forest · 8.1 miLynx Pass CampgroundRoutt National Forest · 13 mi
Elliott Creek Campground (CO)White River National Forest · 13 mi
Piney Guard StationWhite River National Forest · 13 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for McCoy, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 23°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night -1°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Radium Recreation Area 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“…parking areas. There are no electric hook-ups and cell service non-existent without a booster. There are two boat ramps with restrooms.…”