St. Louis Creek
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $29From, per site
- Sites
- 1817 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
St. Louis Creek Campground is located at 8,900' near the Fraser Experimental Forest, four miles southwest of the Town of Fraser, CO. Visitors to the area enjoy hiking, biking, and fishing, as well as easy access to the town of Fraser. This campground provides a rustic camping experience with access to standard amenities. Keep reading
Recreation
Hiking, biking, fishing and wildlife viewing are all accessible near the campground.
Facilities
St. Louis Creek Campground provides 18 non-electric single-party units with picnic tables, metal fire rings and bear-resistant food storage lockers. Vault toilets, trash service and drinking water are available to campground guests. A campground host is on site.
Natural Features
Located near the Fraser Experimental Forest, a 23,500 acre outdoor research area with elevations ranging from 8,800'-12,000', St Louis Creek Campground provides access the rugged Vasquez and Byers Peak Wilderness Areas. Nearby trailheads include Byers Peak Trailhead and St. Louis Lake Trailhead. Afternoon thunderstorms can be expected during spring and summer months.
Nearby Attractions
Grocery shopping and restaurants are available in Fraser, Winter Park, and Granby. The Arapaho National Recreation Area and western portal of Rocky Mountain National Park are within an hour's drive.
Charges & Cancellations
Modifications for this campground must be made through Recreation.gov or by calling the call center at 1-877-444-6777 PRIOR to your reservation start date. Customers and contact center agents cannot modify reservations on or after the check-in date.
What the agency tells you
Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests.
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
No RV water connections are available; come with your water tank filled.
Everything else this campground posts · 12
Reservation holder must be present at check-in.
This campground has a 14 day stay limit and a maximum of 8 people per site.
Pets must be on a maximum length of 6ft hand-held leash.
This is Bear Country! For bear and human safety, keep a clean campsite and do not place food or other attractants in your tent. For more information about visiting bear country, contact Colorado Parks and Wildlife at http://wildlife.state.co.us It is also required that you use bear resistant food storage lockers where these facilities are provided.
Click here for more information about Arapaho & Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/arp
Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
All campsites must be occupied within 26 hours of the beginning of the reservation. If not present the site will be rented by first come first serve basis.
EXTRA VEHICLE FEES: One vehicle is included in your reservation. Any additional vehicles will be charged $8.00 per vehicle per night and will be collected by the camp host if you did not pay for the Extra Vehicle Add On. One vehicle consists of one camper being towed by vehicle, or any other vehicle towed behind camper. One van or one truck with camper attached counts as one vehicle. Extra vehicles must fit on the parking spur at your site.
Two tents maximum per site. RVs, trailers or other vehicles must fit on the parking spur. Driving or parking off road is not permitted. Maximum Vehicle Length is 25 feet.
Modifications for this campground must be made through Recreation.gov PRIOR to your reservation start date. Customers and contact center agents cannot modify reservations on or after the check-in date.
Check-Out is at 12 P.M. Check-In is at 2 P.M.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 18
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 55 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Little
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and bear-resistant food storage lockers. Vault toilets, trash service and drinking water are available to…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Vault toilets, trash service and drinking water are available to campground guests. A campground…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Biking
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 459th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 7 days ago, 9.8 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 17 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 · 13
What you actually pay
“Any additional vehicles will be charged $8.00 per vehicle per night and will be collected by the camp host if you did not pay for the Extra Vehicle Add On.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $29 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.
“Modifications for this campground must be made through Recreation.gov or by calling the call center at 1-877-444-6777 PRIOR to your reservation start date. Customers and contact center agents cannot modify reservations on or after the check-in date.” · this campground’s own 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 · 7
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
18 sites
All 18 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. 17 of the 18 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| St. Louis Creek | 0 | rv nonelectric | 32 ft | $29 |
| St. Louis Creek | 1 | rv nonelectric | 29 ft | $29 |
| St. Louis Creek | 10 | rv nonelectric | 55 ft | $29 |
| St. Louis Creek | 11 | rv nonelectric | 55 ft | $29 |
| St. Louis Creek | 12 | rv nonelectric | 24 ft | $29 |
| St. Louis Creek | 13 | rv nonelectric | 27 ft | $29 |
| St. Louis Creek | 14 | rv nonelectric | 25 ft | $29 |
| St. Louis Creek | 15 | type not stated | ||
| St. Louis Creek | 16 | rv nonelectric | 38 ft | $29 |
| St. Louis Creek | 17 | rv nonelectric | 38 ft | $29 |
| St. Louis Creek | 2 | rv nonelectric | 25 ft | $29 |
| St. Louis Creek | 3 | rv nonelectric | 25 ft | $29 |
| St. Louis Creek | 4 | rv nonelectric | 55 ft | $29 |
| St. Louis Creek | 5 | rv nonelectric | 30 ft | $29 |
| St. Louis Creek | 6 | rv nonelectric | 54 ft | $29 |
| St. Louis Creek | 7 | rv nonelectric | 43 ft | $29 |
| St. Louis Creek | 8 | rv nonelectric | 26 ft | $29 |
| St. Louis Creek | 9 | rv nonelectric | 29 ft | $29 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Idlewild CampgroundArapaho National Forest · 4.4 miJim Creek CampgroundArapaho National Forest · 6.6 mi
Midland Group CampgroundArapaho National Forest · 7.3 miRobbers Roost CampgroundJames Peak Protection Area (National) · 8.5 miMizpah CampgroundArapaho National Forest · 11 mi
Horseshoe CampgroundArapaho National Forest · 13 miFrom Fraser, travel 4 miles southwest on County Road 73 (St. Louis Creek Road). The campground is located on the south 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 Fraser, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 21°F, day 56°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
St. Louis Creek 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 →