Rocky Mountain National Park Longs Peak Campground
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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
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
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.
Construction: There will be intermittent construction occurring in Longs Peak Campground beginning July 7. Signage and information will be available at the campground.
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
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.
Check-in Time. Check-in is after 1 p.m.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Prohibited Wheeled Devices. The use of skateboards, rollerblades, scooters and other similar devices is 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 .
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 27 · 26 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- Stay limit
- 7 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
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
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.
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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, $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.
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
The sites
27 sites
All 27 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. 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 Peak | 1 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 10 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 11 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 12 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 13 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 14 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 15 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 16 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 17 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 18 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 19 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 2 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 20 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 21 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 22 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 23 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 24 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 25 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 26 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 3 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 4 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 5 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 6 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 7 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 8 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | 9 | tent only nonelectric | $30 |
| Longs Peak | Longs Peak Campground Scan and Pay | type not stated |
25 of 27 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
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PawneeRoosevelt 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 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.
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 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 →