Rosy Lane
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $28–$58Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 1815 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Rosy Lane Campground is located 17 miles from Gunnison, Colo., in the Taylor River Canyon. Visitors enjoy the area for its rafting, fishing and trail opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
The Taylor River can be accessed from the campground, and offers a calm stretch for rafting and kayaking. Anglers cast for rainbow and brook trout. The Fossil Ridge Wilderness Area is nearby. The Summerville and South Lottis trailheads provide access to the scenic, natural area. A number of off-road trails are found in the surrounding area, including Doctor Park Trail, Taylor River Trail and Taylor Vista Trail.
Facilities
The campground offers single-family campsites, each equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring. Site 008 has 15-Amp electric hookups. Site 004 is accessible. Campground now has potable drinking water available.
Natural Features
The campground lies on the banks of the Taylor River, at an elevation of 8,600 feet. Most sites are shaded by a stand of lodgepole pine and aspen trees. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (928) 537-8888.
Nearby Attractions
Taylor Park Reservoir is about 12 miles from the campground, with boating, fishing and swimming. A boat ramp and boat rentals are available.
What the agency tells you
WATER is now provided at this campground.
Standard Single Family sites: Recreation Use Fee allows ONE camping unit ONLY. Double & Group sites: Refer to Specific Site # for capacity limits. Extra Vehicles: Cannot be paid for in advance - upon arrival coordinate with the host for payment and where to park.
Late Arrivals: campers are not considered a "no-show" until 24 hours after arrival date check in time. Our policy is that your site will not be released before that.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
FIRST COME FIRST SERVE sites must be booked in person. DO NOT call to determine availability, as they are only available on-site.
Nearest dump station is 16 miles north of the campground
Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing organisms by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Click here for more information on the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests
Opening and closing dates are weather permitting, please call 928-537-8888 for more information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 18
- Hookups
- 1 electric
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…accessible. Campground now has potable drinking water available. Natural Features The campground lies on…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, River
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Horseback riding
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 157th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 31 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 15 of the 18 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.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
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.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 16
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $28–$58 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
23 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 15 mapped sitesAll 23 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 18 of the 23 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. 18 of the 23 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.
| MANAGEMENT | 003 | type not stated | 92 ft | 2,901 ft | $33.97 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 011 | type not stated | 102 ft | 2,117 ft | $33.97 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 018 | type not stated | 264 ft | 2,361 ft | $33.97 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX | unnamed record | 45 ft | $33.97 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX2 | unnamed record | $33.97 | ||||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX4 | unnamed record | $33.97 | ||||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX5 | unnamed record | $33.97 | ||||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX6 | unnamed record | $33.97 | ||||||
| ROSY | 001 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 108 ft | 274 ft | 2,615 ft | $28–$58 | ||
| ROSY | 002 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 108 ft | 240 ft | 2,713 ft | $28–$58 | ||
| ROSY | 004 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 148 ft | 82 ft | 2,892 ft | $28–$58 | |
| ROSY | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 113 ft | 133 ft | 2,746 ft | $28–$58 | ||
| ROSY | 006 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 126 ft | 150 ft | 2,568 ft | $28–$58 | ||
| ROSY | 007 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 84 ft | 121 ft | 2,418 ft | $28–$58 | ||
| ROSY | 008 | rv electric | 45 ft | 15 amp | 84 ft | 99 ft | 2,334 ft | $38 | |
| ROSY | 010 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 137 ft | 92 ft | 2,125 ft | $28–$58 | ||
| ROSY | 012 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 49 ft | 142 ft | 2,018 ft | $28–$58 | ||
| ROSY | 013 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 49 ft | 157 ft | 1,978 ft | $28–$58 | ||
| ROSY | 014 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 127 ft | 227 ft | 1,892 ft | $28–$58 | ||
| ROSY | 015 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 112 ft | 269 ft | 2,019 ft | $28–$58 | ||
| ROSY | 016 | rv nonelectric | 45 ft | 160 ft | 263 ft | 2,167 ft | $28 | ||
| ROSY | 017 | rv nonelectric | 45 ft | 177 ft | 281 ft | 2,340 ft | $28 | ||
| ROSY | 019 | rv nonelectric | 45 ft | 127 ft | 325 ft | 2,515 ft | $28 |
The agency files 5 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
From Gunnison, Colo., travel north on Colorado Highway 135 for 10 miles, to Almont. Turn right (northeast) on Taylor Canyon Road and proceed 7 miles to the campground entrance, which is on the left side of the road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Gunnison, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 25°F, day 54°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night -8°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Rosy Lane 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 →