Teal
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $32From, per site
- Sites
- 16All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This location is available on a first-come, first-served basis only. Visitors are required to physically arrive at the campground to purchase and claim a site. Once on-site, you may be able to pay for your campsite(s) by scanning a QR code using the Recreation.gov mobile app, and the Scan and Pay feature. If this option is available, you will need to first download the free Recreation.gov mobile app https://www.recreation.gov/mobile-app prior to your arrival as some remote areas have limited or no cellular service. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 16
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Around the campground
- Fall color · reported 8 days ago, 30 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.
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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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $32 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
17 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 16 mapped sitesAll 17 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. 16 of the 17 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.
| Scan and Pay | Standard | standard nonelectric | 288 ft | 260 ft | $32 |
| Teal | 01 | standard nonelectric | 161 ft | 150 ft | $32 |
| Teal | 02 | standard nonelectric | 112 ft | 309 ft | $32 |
| Teal | 03 | standard nonelectric | 112 ft | 324 ft | $32 |
| Teal | 04 - Host | host pad | 266 ft | ||
| Teal | 05 | standard nonelectric | 250 ft | 95 ft | $32 |
| Teal | 06 | standard nonelectric | 275 ft | 484 ftWilliams Creek Reservoir | $32 |
| Teal | 07 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 574 ft | $32 |
| Teal | 08 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 598 ftWilliams Creek Reservoir | $32 |
| Teal | 09 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 587 ftWilliams Creek Reservoir | $32 |
| Teal | 10 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 577 ftWilliams Creek Reservoir | $32 |
| Teal | 11 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 566 ftWilliams Creek Reservoir | $32 |
| Teal | 12 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 551 ftWilliams Creek Reservoir | $32 |
| Teal | 13 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 639 ftWilliams Creek Reservoir | $32 |
| Teal | 14 | standard nonelectric | 96 ft | 423 ft | $32 |
| Teal | 15 | standard nonelectric | 96 ft | 390 ft | $32 |
| Teal | 16 | standard nonelectric | 133 ft | 384 ft | $32 |
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.
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Williams Creek CampgroundSan Juan National Forest · 1.0 mi
Cimarrona (CO)San Juan National Forest · 2.3 mi
Palisades Horse CampSan Juan National Forest · 3.1 mi
BridgeSan Juan National Forest · 3.5 mi
Thirty MileRio Grande National Forest · 15 mi
River HillRio Grande National Forest · 15 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Piedra, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 23°F, day 59°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
Teal 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 →