Rio Grande
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 7All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Rio Grande Campground This is a small, developed camping area in a grassy meadow, right on the banks of the Rio Grande. It is not recommended for large RVs or long/wide trailers because the access road going down into the site is narrow and steep. The campground has 7 camp sites with picnic tables and fire rings. Three sites are gravel pull-throughs and four sites are dead-end gravel spurs. There are no trash facilities, you must pack out all trash. No potable water. The campground offers fishing access to the Rio Grande River and is a put in / take out point for summer rafting. Keep reading
Even though the grounds sit next to State highway 149, there is little highway noise as the campsites sits down below the road next to the river bottom. The river is very near the campground and is a safety hazard to children if unsupervised. Seasons of Use: Campground open year round but may be inaccessible due to snow. General Information: 14-day camping limit. Campground not recommended for large RVs or long/wide trailers due to narrow and steep access road. No trash service or receptacles. Please pack out all garbage. Fires in designated fire rings only. Must have a Colorado Fishing License to fish in the river. This can be bear country. Remain "Bear Aware" and store food properly while camping. Pets must be on leash not longer than six feet in length Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (719) 657-3321.
What the agency tells you
Open year-round but may be inaccessible due to snow/weather conditions
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 7
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…facilities, you must pack out all trash. No potable water. The campground offers fishing access to the Rio…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Meadow
- Fishing
- Rafting
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 18:53 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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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 18:53 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
7 sites
All 7 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. 7 of the 7 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.