Rampart Range Recreation Area Designated Dispersed Camping
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $22From, per site
- Sites
- 10098 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Rampart Range Recreation Area's Designated Dispersed Camping is operated by ExplorUS LLC. Camping is only allowed in numbered campsites and requires a fee. Trailhead parking within the Rampart Range Recreation Area is free. The Rampart Range Recreation Area is known for its motorized trail system (OHV's less than 50 inches in width), Devils Head Fire Lookout Tower, and climbing areas. Access to over 300 miles of motorized trails in this area, in addition to the motorized trails on the adjacent Pikes Peak Ranger District. Please use the Motor Vehicle Use Map (MVUM) for the South Platte Ranger District to determine your OHV route(s). All motorized vehicles must be registered with the State of Colorado and have a Forest Service approved spark arrestor. Keep reading
Recreation
Rampart Range Recreation Area is known for its motorized trail system, Devils Head Fire Lookout Tower, and climbing areas. Access to over 300 miles of trails in this area, in addition to the motorized trails on the adjacent Pikes Peak Ranger District. Hiking trail to the meadow below the Devils Head Fire Lookout Tower.
Facilities
No water is available in this area. Please bring water from home. There are vault toilets at most trailheads and port-a-potties in the area. Trash is "Pack in - Pack out"...please take your trash home with you.
Natural Features
The Rampart Range Recreation Area is home to the Devils Head Lookout Tower. The tower is staffed by a U.S. Forest Service fire lookout personnel. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (303) 647-2366.
Nearby Attractions
Motorized trail system, Devils Head Fire Lookout Tower, and climbing areas.
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. Group Sites Group Facility (including Cabins and Lookouts): A visitor who cancels a group overnight facility reservation less than 14 days before the arrival date will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use 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
- This area is closed for camping from December 1 through April 1 (weather dependent for opening April 1) - This area is a heavily used motorized area. - Please bring garbage bags; this is a 'pack in-pack out' facility - Thunderstorms are common; take extra precautions for lightning - Be bear aware; keep all food out of sight in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from area after eating - No firearms or fireworks - No RV hookups are available - For more information on Pike and San Isabel National Forests, click here - 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
- 100 · 6 group
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Please bring water from home. There are vault toilets at most trailheads and port-a-potties in the area.…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…Head Fire Lookout Tower. Facilities No water is available in this area. Please bring water from…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Meadow
- Climbing
- Lookout Tower
- Off Highway Vehicle Trails
- Picnicking
- Fall color · reported 10 days ago, 23 km away
- No change
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:40 UTC
recreation.gov lists 98 of the 100 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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 · 18
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $22 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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:40 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
100 sites
All 100 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. 100 of the 100 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| NFSR 300 | Site 1 (Rampart Range Road) | type not stated | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 10 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 11 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 12 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 13 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 14 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 15 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 16 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 17 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 18 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 19 (Rampart Range Road) | group standard nonelectric | $33 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 2 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 20 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 21 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 22 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 23 (Rampart Range Road) | group standard nonelectric | $33 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 24 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 25 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 26 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 27 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 28 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 29 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 3 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 30 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 31 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 32 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 33 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 34 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 35 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 36 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 37 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 38 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 39 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 4 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 40 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 41 (Rampart Range Road) | group standard nonelectric | $33 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 42 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 43 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 44 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 45 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 46 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 47 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 48 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 49 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 5 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 50 (Rampart Range Road) | group standard nonelectric | $33 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 6 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 61 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 65 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 66 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 67 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 68 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 69 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 7 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 70 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 71 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 72 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 73 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 74 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 8 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 300 | Site 9 (Rampart Range Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 348 | Site 85 (Long Hollow) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 502.B/503 | Site 79 (Jackson Creek) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 502.B/503 | Site 80 (Jackson Creek) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 502.B/503 | Site 81 (Jackson Creek) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 502.B/503 | Site 82 (Jackson Creek) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 502.B/503 | Site 83 (Jackson Creek) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 502.B/503 | Site 84 (Jackson Creek) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 502/503 | Site 75 (Jackson Creek) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 502/503 | Site 76 (Jackson Creek) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 502/503 | Site 77 (Jackson Creek) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 502/503 | Site 78 (Jackson Creek) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 507 | Site 51 (Rim Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 507 | Site 52 (Rim Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 507 | Site 53 (Rim Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 507 | Site 54 (Rim Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 507 | Site 55 (Rim Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 507 | Site 56 (Rim Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 507 | Site 57 (Rim Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 507 | Site 58 (Rim Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 507 | Site 59 (Rim Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 507 | Site 60 (Rim Road)(Tent/Small camper) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 507 | Site 62 (Rim Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 507 | Site 63 (Rim Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 507 | Site 64 (Rim Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 563 | Site 86 (Dakan Road) | group standard nonelectric | $33 |
| NFSR 563 | Site 87 (Dakan Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 563 | Site 88 (Dakan Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 563 | Site 89 (Dakan Road) | group standard nonelectric | $33 |
| NFSR 563 | Site 90 (Dakan Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 563 | Site 91 (Dakan Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 563 | Site 92 (Dakan Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 563 | Site 95 (Dakan Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 563 | Site 96 (Dakan Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 563 | Site 97 (Dakan Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 563 | Site 98 (Dakan Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| NFSR 563 | Site 99 (Dakan Road) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| S&P | Standard S&P | type not stated | $22 |
| Watson Park | Site 93 (Watson Park)(Tent Only) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| Watson Park | Site 94 (Watson Park) | standard nonelectric | $22 |
25 of 100 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Indian Creek Equestrian CampgroundPike National Forest · 1.3 miFlat Rocks CampgroundPike National Forest · 3.4 mi
Osprey (CO)Pike National Forest · 4.8 mi
OuzelPike National Forest · 6.4 miDevils Head CampgroundPike National Forest · 7.3 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 32°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
Rampart Range Recreation Area Designated Dispersed Camping 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 →