Rocky Mountain National Park Aspenglen Campground
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- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $35From, per site
- Sites
- 5349 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
Aspenglen is located on the east side of Rocky Mountain National Park near Fall River Entrance. All campsites in Aspenglen Campground are available by reservation only and can be reserved via Recreation.gov. When making your campsite reservation, be aware that: Any sites that are open are listed as "A" for available; this means those campsites are available to be reserved. Any campsite listed as “NR” has Not Yet Released; this means that those campsites are not yet available to be reserved. A number of campsites are available to be reserved up to 6-months in advance on a rolling window. Keep reading
Some campsites are available to be reserved 2-weeks prior to your desired camping date. Some campsites are available to be reserved 1-week prior to your desired camping date. Is a Timed Entry Reservation Included with my Camping Reservation? Yes. Campers with reservations for Aspenglen Campground have a " Timed Entry+ Bear Lake Road " reservation included with your camping reservation. Your campground reservation will serve as your vehicle timed entry reservation. Campers can enter RMNP via the Grand Lake, Beaver Meadows or Fall River Entrances beginning at 1 p.m. on the first day of your camping reservation. Remember to print and bring a copy of your campground reservation with you and keep this in your vehicle. You will be asked to show your campground reservation confirmation at the park's entrance station upon arrival. When Can I Check into My Campsite? Check In begins at 1 p.m. for all campsites in Rocky Mountain National Park. What Time is Check Out? All campers must check out of their campsites in Rocky Mountain National Park by noon. How Many Nights Can I Stay at Aspenglen Campground? In Rocky Mountain National Park, there is a 7-night limit for all campgrounds during the summer season. This means that campers can stay a total of 7 nights inside the park. This limit includes overnight stays at all campgrounds. For instance, a camper could spend 7 nights at Aspenglen Campground or they could stay 3 nights at Aspenglen Campground and 4 at Timber Creek Campground.
Recreation
Rocky Mountain National Park has over 350 miles of hiking trails that range from flat lakeside strolls to steep mountain climbs. One of the most popular activities in the park is wildlife viewing. There are excellent wildlife viewing opportunities to see elk, Mule deer, Bighorn sheep, hawks, a wide range of songbirds and more throughout the park. Rocky Mountain National Park offers some unforgettable scenic views along of the land above trees, over 1/3 of the park is alpine tundra. Enjoy incredible scenic drives along Trail Ridge Road and Old Fall River Road.
Facilities
Aspenglen Campground contains several drive-to family sites for both tents and RVs. There are a few campsites that are more secluded. These are tent-only sites that campers have to walk to, located away from your vehicle's parking space. Each campsite is equipped with a picnic table, fire ring with grate, and tent pad. Roads and parking spurs are paved. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. Generators are only permitted to be used in Loop C. Generator Hours are in the mornings from 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. and in the afternoons from 4:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Natural Features
A pleasant mix of Douglas fir, Lodgepole pine, Ponderosa pine and the occasional Engelmann spruce forests the campground, offering equal amounts of sun and shade. Grasses, shrubs and seasonal wildflowers fill the open meadows. Wildlife is plentiful in the park: mule deer and the majestic Rocky Mountain elk are the most commonly spotted, although black bear, coyote, bighorn sheep and moose inhabit the region as well.
Nearby Attractions
The Town of Estes Park is a short drive from the campground, located outside of RMNP’s Beaver Meadows and Fall River Entrances. Dining, shopping, rafting, fly fishing, horseback riding, and golfing opportunities await. Lake Estes offers boating, sailboarding, and fishing.
What the agency tells you
Need to Know - You must scroll down and read all of the "Need to Know Information" below. By completing your camping reservation, you are agreeing to the following items. Use the scroll bar in this small window to scroll and read all the information. Camping space is extremely limited. Ensure your camping unit or equipment will fit in your chosen site. Other options may not be available. Be aware - Vehicles larger than 30-feet are not permitted in Aspenglen campground.
Entrance Fee - A park entrance fee is required to enter Rocky Mountain National Park, or show your annual or lifetime park pass. You may pay the entrance fee upon arrival. Pass Discounts on Camping. If you use a Senior or Access Pass for a camping fee discount while booking a reservation, you must present the pass and photo ID upon check-in.
Site Limits. Each site is limited to eight (8) persons and one camping unit (i.e., a tent, RV, or trailer/tow vehicle) plus one additional tent per standard nonelectric site. All tents shall be located on the tent pad. All additional camp structures must be self standing without impacts to vegetation or trees. Parking is limited to two (2) vehicles per site. A vehicle is defined as one vehicle, one trailer, one RV, or one towed unit. Each vehicle must be parked on the gravel or paved parking pad causing no resource degradation or encroachment onto the paved access road. Some sites will accommodate only one vehicle on the graveled parking pad. Extra vehicles must park in overflow areas. Maximum length of stay. The maximum length of stay during peak season is 7 nights. Please check the rules and regulations before making your reservation.
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Check-in Time. Check-in is after 1 p.m.
Be Advised: Trailer length is the total maxium vehicle length allowable. (Trailer Length = Trailer + Hitch + Vehicle)
Maximum Vehicle + Trailer Length = Vehicle + Trailer + Hitch = 30 ft at Aspenglen campground.
Generator Hours In Aspenglen Campground, generators are permitted in Loop C. Generators may be run in the morning from 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and in the evening from 4 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Generator use is not allowed in any campsites in Loops A and B.
No hookups. Aspenglen Campground does not offer RV hookups. No Dump Station. There is no dump station. The closest dump station is located at Moraine Park Campground. No Shower or Laundry. There are no shower or laundry facilities in the campground; portable showers are prohibited.
Note for RV Campers: If you plan on renting an RV or camping equipment and having it delivered to Rocky Mountain National Park, it is your responsibility to make sure that the individual or business that you are renting the equipment from has a valid permit to do business in the park. It is illegal to conduct business in a park area without a permit, contract, or other written agreement. Renting from a business or individual without a Commercial Use Authorization (CUA) with the park may leave you without accommodations as the RV/camping equipment may be turned away upon delivery.
Food Storage and Wildlife. Bears, deer, elk, raccoons and skunks frequent the area. All food, pet food, cooking utensils and other scented items must be stored in a vehicle or in food storage lockers located in the campground.
Firewood. Firewood is not available inside Aspenglen Campground. Firewood can be purchased at stores in Estes Park. Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.
Prohibited Wheeled Devices. Skateboards, rollerblades, scooters and similar devices are prohibited.
STOP THE SPREAD OF INVASIVE SPECIES. Remove plants, seeds, animals, and mud from boots, gear, pets, and vehicles. Clean your gear before entering and leaving the recreation site. Stay on designated roads and trails and follow local guidelines for firewood. CLEAN, DRAIN, DRY boats and any other recreational equipment that contacts water. Dispose of unwanted bait, worms, fish parts, or other organisms into the trash and not into the environment. For more information visit the National Invasive Species Information Center .
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 53 · 15 tent-only, 6 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 2 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 3
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - seasonal
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 7 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Meadow
- Accessible Swimming
- Amphitheater
- Backpacking
- Biking
- Canoeing
- Evening Programs
- Fishing
- Guided Interpretive Walks
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Ranger programs
- Kayaking
- Mountain Climbing
- Picnicking
- Night sky · 460th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, 3.6 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 49 of the 53 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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.
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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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $35 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
55 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 47 mapped sitesAll 55 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 50 of the 55 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 49 of the 55 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| A Loop | 001 | tent only nonelectric | 1 ft | 75 ft | 485 ft | 409 ft | $35 | |
| A Loop | 002 | tent only nonelectric | 1 ft | 70 ft | 414 ft | 364 ft | $35 | |
| A Loop | 003 | tent only nonelectric | 1 ft | 70 ft | 347 ft | 329 ft | $35 | |
| A Loop | 004 | tent only nonelectric | 1 ft | 133 ft | 215 ft | 259 ft | $35 | |
| A Loop | 005 | tent only nonelectric | 1 ft | yes | 126 ft | 309 ft | 220 ft | $35 |
| A Loop | A | walk to | 1 ft | 106 ft | 58 ft | 257 ft | $35 | |
| A Loop | B | walk to | 1 ft | 78 ft | 36 ftFall River | 315 ft | $35 | |
| A Loop | C | walk to | 1 ft | 57 ft | 27 ftFall River | 443 ft | $35 | |
| A Loop | D | walk to | 1 ft | 40 ft | under 10 ftFall River | 416 ft | $35 | |
| A Loop | E | walk to | 1 ft | 40 ft | 12 ftFall River | 382 ft | $35 | |
| B Loop | 006 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | 75 ft | 618 ft | 259 ft | $35 | |
| B Loop | 007 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | 75 ft | 608 ft | 237 ft | $35 | |
| B Loop | 008 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | 111 ft | 676 ft | 171 ft | $35 | |
| B Loop | 009 | standard nonelectric | 1 ft | 71 ft | 763 ft | 81 ft | $35 | |
| B Loop | 010 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | 114 ft | 812 ft | 86 ft | $35 | |
| B Loop | 011 | tent only nonelectric | 1 ft | 54 ft | 925 ft | 86 ft | $35 | |
| B Loop | 012 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | 54 ft | 945 ft | 115 ft | $35 | |
| B Loop | 013 | tent only nonelectric | 1 ft | 86 ft | 1,024 ft | 185 ft | $35 | |
| B Loop | 014 | walk to | 1 ft | 64 ft | 1,008 ft | 185 ft | $35 | |
| B Loop | 015 | tent only nonelectric | 1 ft | 64 ft | 972 ft | 181 ft | $35 | |
| B Loop | 016 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | $35 | ||||
| B Loop | 018-HOST | host pad | 21 ft | |||||
| B Loop | 019 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | 68 ft | 741 ft | 137 ft | $35 | |
| B Loop | 020 | tent only nonelectric | 2 ft | 68 ft | 747 ft | 189 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 021-HOST | host pad | 30 ft | |||||
| C Loop | 022 | tent only nonelectric | 1 ft | 85 ft | 563 ft | 415 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 023 | tent only nonelectric | 2 ft | 77 ft | 594 ft | 461 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 024 | tent only nonelectric | 1 ft | 74 ft | 518 ft | 446 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 025 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | 70 ft | 471 ft | 345 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 026 | tent only nonelectric | 2 ft | 74 ft | 556 ft | 401 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 027 | tent only nonelectric | 1 ft | 70 ft | 456 ft | 275 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 028 | standard nonelectric | 1 ft | 89 ft | 502 ft | 206 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 029 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | 84 ft | 412 ft | 161 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 030 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | yes | 68 ft | 401 ft | 87 ft | $35 |
| C Loop | 031 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | yes | 68 ft | 387 ft | 51 ft | $35 |
| C Loop | 032 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | 70 ft | 430 ftFall River | 183 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 033 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | 62 ft | 366 ftFall River | 167 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 034 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | 72 ft | 350 ftFall River | 244 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 035 | standard nonelectric | 1 ft | 70 ft | 419 ftFall River | 253 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 036 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | $35 | ||||
| C Loop | 037 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | 70 ft | 414 ftFall River | 447 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 038 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | 70 ft | 350 ftFall River | 421 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 039 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | 80 ft | 312 ftFall River | 334 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 041 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | 80 ft | 234 ftFall River | 282 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 042 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | 93 ft | 197 ftFall River | 345 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 045 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | 76 ft | 176 ftFall River | 212 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 046 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | 76 ft | 191 ftFall River | 136 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 047 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | 72 ft | 249 ftFall River | 188 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 048 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | 72 ft | 292 ftFall River | 149 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 049 | standard nonelectric | 2 ft | 62 ft | 342 ft | 140 ft | $35 | |
| C Loop | 050 | tent only nonelectric | 2 ft | 75 ft | 313 ft | 125 ft | $35 | |
| Winter Scan and Pay | Winter Scan and Pay | type not stated | ||||||
| 017 | type not stated | 1 ft | 835 ft | 141 ft | ||||
| 040 | type not stated | 2 ft | 291 ftFall River | 395 ft | ||||
| 043 | type not stated | 2 ft | 115 ftFall River | 274 ft |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It names them host pads. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
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Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
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Long Draw CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 12 miFrom Estes Park, CO:
Drive on U.S. Highway 34 west from Estes Park. The closest entrance to the park is the Fall River Entrance. The turn for Aspenglen Campground is approximately 0.2 miles from the entrance, located on the left side of the road.
From Grand Lake, CO:
Drive on U.S. Highway 34 east, which becomes Trail Ridge Road inside the park. Enter at the Grand Lake Entrance. Follow Trail Ridge Road east across the continental divide approximately 40 miles. When you come to Deer Ridge Junction, follow the signs for Fall River Road and turn left. Follow Fall River Road east past Horseshoe Park and look for the entrance to Aspenglen Campground on the right side of the road. Aspenglen Campground is approximately 0.2 miles before the exit to the park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Estes Park, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 30°F, day 57°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 16°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
Rocky Mountain National Park Aspenglen Campground 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 →