Stove Prairie
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $29From, per site
- Sites
- 9All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
Stove Prairie Campground is located on the Cache la Poudre River, 26 miles northwest of Fort Collins, in north central Colorado. Visitors enjoy the area for its great rafting, fishing and hiking opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
The Cache la Poudre River offers whitewater rafting and fishing. Anglers cast for brown, cutthroat and rainbow trout. Hiking, biking and horseback riding trails are in the surrounding area, including the Mt. McConnel Trail, William R. Kreutzer National Recreation Trail and Young Gulch Trail. Other popular activities include birding and wildlife viewing.
Facilities
The campground offers eight accessible, single-family campsites. Four sites are walk-to tent sites. Each site is equipped with a 12-by-15 tent pad, table and campfire ring with grill. Accessible vault toilets are provided. Dead and downed firewood may be gathered in the surrounding forest, or purchased from the campground host.
Natural Features
The canyon's vegetation varies from dense forests to open meadows, surrounded by steep mountains. The campground is situated among ponderosa pine and aspen trees on the banks of the Cache la Poudre River, Colorado's first National Wild and Scenic River. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 529-0578.
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
No RV water connections are available.
All campsites with a tent pad have a bear locker. 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
Sites may be available on a first-come, first-served basis before and after the reservation season
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https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/arp for more information on the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests
Come with your RV/trailer water tank filled. Filling at campground hydrants cross-contaminates the system and is not allowed.
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.
ONLY 8 people allowed per site. Check-in with host at Ansel Watrous prior to setting up camp.
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.
Fire Restrictions: Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed.
Tents must fit on the pads provided.
RVs, trailers or other vehicles must fit on the parking spur. Driving or parking off road is not permitted. The parking length ranges from 30 to 55 feet.
Pets must be on a hand-held leash.
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
- 9 · 4 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- 4 of 9
- Accessible sites
- 9
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and campfire ring with grill. Accessible vault toilets are provided. Dead and downed firewood may be…”
- Firewood
- Sold here
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Meadow
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Mountain biking
- Rafting
- Water sports
- Whitewater rafting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 448th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 2 days ago, 31 km away
- Patchy 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.
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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
9 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 9 mapped sitesAll 9 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. 9 of the 9 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| STOVE PRAIRIE | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 59 ft | 170 ft | $29 |
| STOVE PRAIRIE | 002 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 59 ft | 187 ft | $29 |
| STOVE PRAIRIE | 003 | walk to | yes | 34 ft | 122 ft | $29 | |
| STOVE PRAIRIE | 004 | walk to | yes | 17 ft | 160 ft | $29 | |
| STOVE PRAIRIE | 005 | walk to | yes | 17 ft | 152 ft | $29 | |
| STOVE PRAIRIE | 006 | walk to | yes | 93 ft | 96 ft | $29 | |
| STOVE PRAIRIE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 29 ft | 91 ft | $29 |
| STOVE PRAIRIE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 29 ft | 83 ft | $29 |
| STOVE PRAIRIE | 009 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 37 ft | 98 ft | $29 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Narrows (CO)Roosevelt National Forest · 1.9 mi
Ansel WatrousRoosevelt National Forest · 2.5 mi
Dutch George CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 2.8 mi
Mountain ParkRoosevelt National Forest · 3.8 mi
Kelly Flats CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 4.5 miFrom Fort Collins, take Highway 14 northwest for 26 miles, to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Red Feather Lakes, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 34°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 15°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
Stove Prairie 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 →