Road Canyon Campground
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Season
- April 1Opens April 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This small campground, located at the head of Road Canyon Reservoir, usually has vacancy when other upriver campgrounds are full. The area is in a fully open meadow, with no trees, and it is not screened from Rio Grande Reservoir Road. It has 6 camping units, each with a parking spur, table, and fire ring. An undeveloped overflow camping area is directly across the road. A vault type toilet is provided, but no trash receptacles (Please pack out your trash). No firewood or drinking water are available. There is fishing access and a boat launch at Road Canyon Reservoir.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “A vault type toilet is provided, but no trash receptacles (Please pack out your trash).”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Firewood
- Mentioned
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Meadow
- Fall color · reported 11 days ago, 23 km away
- Peak color
Phone before you drive
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 7
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($10), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
River HillRio Grande National Forest · 2.8 mi
Thirty MileRio Grande National Forest · 4.2 mi
Bristol Head CampgroundRio Grande National Forest · 5.1 miSilver Thread CampgroundRio Grande National Forest · 5.5 miNorth Clear Creek CampgroundRio Grande National Forest · 6.2 miRio Grande CampgroundRio Grande National Forest · 9.9 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for City of Creede, CO
Typical weather
Typical April night 20°F, day 50°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical April night 20°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 moreOutside the published season
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
Road Canyon Campground 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 →