Spruce Grove Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $24From, per site
- Sites
- 26All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
The beautiful Spruce Grove campground is positioned beside large rock outcroppings on Tarryall Creek. Magnificent hiking trails to the Lost Creek Wilderness Area are just steps away from the Creek Bridge. Located just 14 miles outside Lake George, Colorado, the area's wild inhabitants include black bear, mule deer, elk, bighorn sheep and bobcats. Keep reading
Recreation
From the campground, hikers and horseback riders can traverse the Lizard Rock Trail, a 2.5-mile trail that passes Hankins Pass Trail and intersects with the Brookside-McCurdy Trail. Along the route are interesting rock formations that some say look like a lizard. The extensive Brookside-McCurdy Trail is a former pack trail in the Lost Creek Wilderness that can be backpacked in five to seven days. Anglers seek rainbow and brown trout in both the creek and nearby lake. Due to the limited parking within the campground, anglers and day hikers are asked to park outside of the campground. A recommended fishing spot is 11 miles away at the Tarryall Reservoir.
Facilities
Spruce Grove offers nearly 27 reservable campsites. Parking aprons fit RVs up to 35 feet in length and a maximum of eight guests are allowed to stay. Drinking water from a hand pump, trash collection and vault toilets are among the amenities at Spruce Grove. Each site comes with a picnic table and a campfire ring.
Natural Features
The campground is perched along Tarryall Creek at an elevation of 8,600 feet, near Bayou Salado Reservoir. Campsites have little to no shade but are surrounded by mature spruce, aspen and plenty of good looking boulders. The area sits at the base of South Tarryall Peak and just north is McCurdy Mountain with a peak of 12,173 feet. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.
Nearby Attractions
Visitors enjoy the many great trails in the Lost Creek Wilderness, a 119,790-acre stretch of split boulders, rounded granite domes and knobs, rare granite arches, and forested scenic overlooks.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee including tax and applicable add-on for a campsite. Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee. No-Shows A no-show visitor is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. Staff will hold a campsite until check-out time on the day following the arrival date. No-shows are assessed $20.00 service fee and forfeit the first night's rate, taxes and applicable add-on for a campsite. Refunds Visitors may submit a refund request through their Recreation.gov profile within 7 days of the end date of their reservation. Refunds will not be issued after the 7 days has ended. Refunds for debit or credit card payments will be issued as a credit to the original bank or credit card used to pay. For check or cash purchases, Recreation.gov will mail a Treasury check for refunds of cash, check, or money order payments to the address associated with the reservation. Treasury check refunds may take up to 6-8 weeks to arrive. In the event of an emergency closure, the Recreation.gov team or facility manager will refund all fees and will attempt to notify you using the contact information within the Recreation.gov visitor profile.
What the agency tells you
Be bear aware; keep all food out of site in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from area after eating
This is a high elevation facility, please use caution when traveling from lower elevations
For more information on Pike and San Isabel National Forests, click here
Everything else this campground posts · 10
Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing organisms by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Firewood is available to purchase on site, depending on any fire ban. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
ATV's and off road vehicles are prohibited in the campground and Eleven Mile Canyon
The use, sale, and possession of all forms of cannabis on federal lands is illegal under federal law on federal land.
Shooting of any type is prohibited in the campground and Eleven Mile Canyon
Reservations are available up to 5 days prior to arrival date. Sites not reserved 5 days before become available on a ‘first come - first serve’ (FF) bases.
Dogs must be on a leash or tethered at all times.
Check-out time is 12:00pm. Check-in time is 2:00pm
This Campground has no accessibilty sites, the driveway is gravel as are the sites.
Two vehicles or one RV per site is included in the camping fee. $11.00 for a third vehicle. $11.00 fee for day use if not camping overnight.
Firewood is available for sale at host site for $10.00/bundle.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 26 · 15 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 36 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 27 of 27 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER (SEASONAL) on 27 of 27 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek
- Biking
- Climbing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 447th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 10 days ago, 29 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $24 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.
“Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee including tax and applicable add-on for a cam…” · this campground’s own no-show terms
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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
27 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 26 mapped sitesAll 27 records
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.
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 197 ft | 495 ft | $24 |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 002-Host | host pad | 36 ft | 438 ft | ||
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 003 | tent only nonelectric | 88 ft | 148 ft | $24 | |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 004 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 107 ft | $24 | |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 005 | tent only nonelectric | 64 ft | 11 ft | $24 | |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 006 | tent only nonelectric | 64 ft | 71 ft | $24 | |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 007 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 91 ft | $24 | |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 008 | tent only nonelectric | 86 ft | 16 ft | $24 | |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 009 | tent only nonelectric | 86 ft | 32 ft | $24 | |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 010 | tent only nonelectric | 104 ft | 37 ft | $24 | |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 011 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 33 ft | 168 ft | $24 |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 84 ft | 162 ft | $24 |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 49 ft | 159 ft | $24 |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 44 ft | 141 ft | $24 |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 44 ft | 160 ft | $24 |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 76 ft | 154 ft | $24 |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 018 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 76 ft | 120 ft | $24 |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 019 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 59 ft | 129 ft | $24 |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 20 ft | 130 ft | $24 |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 021 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 20 ft | 113 ft | $24 |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 022 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 63 ft | 256 ft | $24 |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 63 ft | 303 ft | $24 |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 024 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 16 ft | 371 ft | $24 |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 025 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 16 ft | 355 ft | $24 |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 026 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 29 ft | 416 ft | $24 |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 027 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 29 ft | 443 ft | $24 |
| SPRUCE GROVE CAMPGROUND | 028 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 33 ft | 186 ft | $24 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 27 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Round MountainPike National Forest · 7.6 mi
Pulver Mountain Group SitePike National Forest · 7.7 mi
Happy MeadowsPike National Forest · 10 miLost ParkPike National Forest · 10 miFrom areas west of Lake George, Colorado, drive east on Highway 24 and turn left on CR 77 (Tarryall Road) just before Lake George. Continue on CR 77 about 15 miles to Spruce Grove Campground, located on the right. The campground sign and entrance sit back off CR 77.
From areas east of Lake George, drive west on Hwy 24 through Lake George and turn right on CR 77 (first paved road). Drive about 15 miles to Spruce Grove Campground located on the right. The campground sign and entrance sit back off CR 77.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Westcreek, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 26°F, day 57°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night -1°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
Spruce Grove Campground is in Colorado’s 7th congressional district. Its representative, Brittany Pettersen (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →