National Park Service · Rocky Mountain National Park · CO

Rocky Mountain National Park Longs Peak Campground

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Trail Ridge Road is Closed at Many Parks Curve & Milner Pass Due to recent winter storms, Trail Ridge Road is temporarily closed on the east side of the park at Many Parks Curve and at Milner Pass on the west side of the park. Call the Trail Ridge Road recorded line at 970-586-1222 for the most…
Alerts: National Park Service alerts API · Oct 17, 2026
ReservableBooking 6 months out; today unlocks April 17. Season not published.
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Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$30From, per site
Sites
2726 of them walk-up
9,370 ftElevation
621 ftWater · an unnamed pond
4.1 miSW of Estes Park, CO
26Walk-up sites
47%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices

In the agency’s own words

Longs Peak Campground is open for the summer camping season. This is a first-come, first-served campground that is open for tents only. Longs Peak Campground is located about 20 minutes south of Estes Park on CO Highway 7 and is in a forested area at an elevation of 9,500 feet (3000 m) above sea level. Longs Peak Campground has vault toilets and no water. Campers must bring their own water. The overnight camping fee for Longs Peak Campground does not include park entrance fees or timed entry reservations. Keep reading

Rocky Mountain National Park accepts payment for all entrance and campground fees in the form of debit/credit card only. Most credit/debit cards and digital forms of payment are accepted. To pay for overnight camping fees, campers can use the Scan & Pay function on the Recreation.gov Mobile App. It is easy to pay using the Scan and Pay feature. First, download the Recreation.gov Mobile App and then create or update an account. Additional directions are posted at Longs Peak Campground.

Facilities

Each campsite has one parking spot, a fire ring, and picnic table. There are 4 vault toilets available for use in the campground.

What the agency tells you

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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.

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Construction: There will be intermittent construction occurring in Longs Peak Campground beginning July 7. Signage and information will be available at the campground.

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Timed Entry Permits: Camping at Longs Peak Campground DOES NOT grant entrance into the park. You will require a Timed Entry Permit for recreating inside Rocky Mountain National Park. For more information and details please go to this site Rocky Timed Entry Permit System .

Everything else this campground posts · 10
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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 to the park. 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.

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Check-in Time. Check-in is after 1 p.m.

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Site Limits. Each site is limited to eight (8) persons and one camping unit (i.e., a tent,conversion van, truck camper) 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 one (1) vehicle 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. 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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Site Limits. Each site is limited to eight (8) persons and one camping unit (i.e., a tent, conversion van, truck camper) 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 one (1) vehicle per site. Vehicles must be parked on the gravel or paved parking pad causing no resource degradation or encroachment onto the paved access road. 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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No Water. There is no water and no drinking water at Long Peak No Hookups. There are no RV hookups available. No Dump Station. RVs are not permited at Longs Peak. No Shower or Laundry. There are no shower or laundry facilities in the campground; portable showers are prohibited.

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Food Storage and Wildlife. Bears, deer, elk, raccoons and skunks frequent the area. All food, pet food, cooking utensils and any other scented items must be stored in a food storage locker, located in the campground.

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Firewood. Firewood is not available for purchase at Longs Peak Campground. Firewood is available for purchase 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.

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Prohibited Wheeled Devices. The use of skateboards, rollerblades, scooters and other similar devices is prohibited.

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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 .

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ATTENTION: 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.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Tents and rigs

Sites
27 · 26 tent-only
Hookups
None
Accessible sites
None listed
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets - year round
Drinking water
None, bring your own
Stay limit
7 nights
recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Source: National Park Service and agency records

Around the campground

Night sky · 472nd darkest of 522 in CO
Bortle 4
Fall color · reported 3 days ago, 7.5 km away
Peak color
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (7.5 km) · Oct 14, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

recreation.gov lists 26 of the 27 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.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 17, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Max stay7 nightsthe facility record
A night$30plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
A weekend$68DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itNational Park ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
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What you actually pay

The sign priceNational Park Service
A night$30
Tent Only Nonelectric$30
These are next season’s rates, Jul 1, 2027 to Sep 6, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.
Longs Peak Campground is a first-come, first-served campground.
To pay for overnight camping fees, campers can use the Scan & Pay function on the Recreation.gov Mobile App.
It is easy to pay using the Scan and Pay feature.
First, download the Recreation.gov Mobile App and then create or update an account.
Additional directions are posted at Longs Peak Campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
What a stay costs
One nightDerived$38
A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$68

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $30 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

27 sites

All 27 sites

Up to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 26 of the 27 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

Longs Peak1tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak10tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak11tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak12tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak13tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak14tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak15tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak16tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak17tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak18tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak19tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak2tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak20tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak21tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak22tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak23tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak24tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak25tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak26tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak3tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak4tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak5tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak6tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak7tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak8tent only nonelectric$30
Longs Peak9tent only nonelectric$30
Longs PeakLongs Peak Campground Scan and Paytype not stated

25 of 27 listed

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the phone number

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

This Afternoon60°Sunny
Tonight37°Mostly Clear
Sunday58°Mostly Sunny
Sunday Night37°Partly Cloudy3% rain

NWS forecast for Allenspark, CO

Typical weather

Typical October night 23°F, day 55°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 5°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

80°32°0°

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.

Measured at: GRAND LAKE 1 NW, CO (USC00053496), 14 miles away and 650 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
North St. Vrain RNA4,527 acres · 7 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Lion Gulch6,581 acres · 8 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
North St. Vrain7,194 acres · 8 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Who answers for this land

Joe Neguse, official portrait

Rocky Mountain National Park Longs Peak 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: National Park Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (7.5 km) · Oct 14, 2026
Cell signal: the Park Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Allenspark, CO, 1.3 mi NW (a census designated place). Straight line.