Sunshine Campground - Norwood RD
1Heads up1 fire 16 mi away
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $28From, per site
- Season
- May 23 – October 7Open May 23 through October 7
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Sunshine Campground is a single loop, paved campground with 15 campsites nestled in a dense aspen forest featuring a small mountain lake. Maximum spur length - 35 feet. A spectacular view of Sunshine Peak is visible from many sites. The campground is convenient to Telluride and its many shops and restaurants. No water available for 2024 season.
Facilities
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…and its many shops and restaurants. No water available for 2024 season.”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 11 km away
- Patchy color
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $28 with nothing added. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 7
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($28), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
MatterhornUncompahgre National Forest · 3.1 mi
Matterhorn CabinUncompahgre National Forest · 3.2 mi
South MineralSan Juan National Forest · 8.5 miWoods LakeUncompahgre National Forest · 9.0 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Mountain Village, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 23°F, day 57°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 23°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 moreOutside the published season
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
Sunshine Campground - Norwood RD 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 →