Teal Lake Group Campsite
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 18All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Teal Lake Group Site and Campground is set along a small yet scenic lake in north central Colorado in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. Located in the Routt National Forest at an elevation of 9,000-ft., the lake is popular for trout fishing and lies close to a wilderness area with a variety of hiking and off-highway vehicle trails. Keep reading
Recreation
Trout fishing and boating are popular activities in the clear, calm waters of Teal Lake. Only electric boats and non-motorized boats are permitted. Off-road vehicle enthusiasts have easy access to the Grizzly-Helena Trail nearby. Hiking is great in the nearby Mount Zirkel wilderness, though hikers must drive to the trailheads.
Facilities
Teal Lake provides 17 individual campsites and one group site for up to 30 people. Campsites are private and have ample space. The group site has four picnic tables and two campfire rings for groups to gather.
Natural Features
Teal Lake is a 50-acre lake surrounded by a rocky shoreline and pine-fir forest. Some previously forested areas of the campground have been thinned due to pests and thus have more sun than others. Black bear, bobcat, coyote, elk, mule deer and moose are just some of the many animals that inhabit the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland. The area is generally snow-free from Memorial Day to Labor Day, but visitors should come prepared for anything, including freezing temperatures and snow during summer.
Nearby Attractions
The closest town is Walden, Colorado. Many more outdoor opportunities exist in the nearly 3 million acres of surrounding national forests and grasslands, including hiking, biking, camping, horseback riding, OHV riding, fishing, hunting, sightseeing and winter sports.
What the agency tells you
This campground has 17 campsites and 1 Group site. Reservable sites are site #3, site #9, and site #001 (Group Site). The rest of the campground is on a first come, first serve basis.
Group Site Parking area is limited to 7 vehicles
The lake is for non-motorized and electric boats only
Everything else this campground posts · 4
This is a high elevation facility; please use caution when traveling from lower elevations
Click here for more information on the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests
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.
The Group Site is designed for tent and/or car camping. Parking space becomes limited when hauling a RV. Parking area is roughly a 50' X 50'gravel lot
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 18 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Fishing
- Picnicking
- Wildlife viewing
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, $20 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
36 records · the site map
All 36 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. 17 of the 36 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | 01 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| A | 02 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| A | 03 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| A | 04 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| A | 05 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| A | 06 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| A | 07 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| A | 08 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| A | 09 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| A | 10 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| A | 11 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| A | 12 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| A | 13 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| A | 14 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| A | 15 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| A | 16 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| A | 17 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| MANAGEMENT | XXX | unnamed record | 330 ft | $33.97 |
| MANAGEMENT | XXX1 | unnamed record | 84 ft | $33.97 |
| MANAGEMENT | XXX10 | unnamed record | 284 ft | $33.97 |
| MANAGEMENT | XXX11 | unnamed record | 358 ft | $33.97 |
| MANAGEMENT | XXX12 | unnamed record | 481 ft | $33.97 |
| MANAGEMENT | XXX13 | unnamed record | 421 ft | $33.97 |
| MANAGEMENT | XXX14 | unnamed record | 455 ft | $33.97 |
| MANAGEMENT | XXX15 | unnamed record | 379 ft | $33.97 |
| MANAGEMENT | XXX16 | unnamed record | 393 ft | $33.97 |
| MANAGEMENT | XXX17 | unnamed record | 362 ft | $33.97 |
| MANAGEMENT | XXX2 | unnamed record | 268 ft | $33.97 |
| MANAGEMENT | XXX3 | unnamed record | 208 ft | $33.97 |
| MANAGEMENT | XXX4 | unnamed record | 176 ft | $33.97 |
| MANAGEMENT | XXX5 | unnamed record | 199 ft | $33.97 |
| MANAGEMENT | XXX6 | unnamed record | 188 ft | $33.97 |
| MANAGEMENT | XXX7 | unnamed record | 216 ft | $33.97 |
| MANAGEMENT | XXX8 | unnamed record | 208 ft | $33.97 |
| MANAGEMENT | XXX9 | unnamed record | 230 ft | $33.97 |
| TEAL | 001 | group standard area nonelectric | 84 ft |
The agency files 18 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is 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.
25 of 36 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Grizzly Creek Guard Station2.1 mi
Summit Lake CampgroundRoutt National Forest · 4.9 mi
Hidden Lakes CampgroundRoutt National Forest · 5.4 miGranite CampgroundRoutt National Forest · 7.6 mi
Dry Lake Campground (CO)Routt National Forest · 9.9 mi
Dumont CampgroundRoutt National Forest · 13 miFrom Walden: Take Highway 14 west for approximately 11 miles to Hebron. Turn right on County Road 24 driving west. After approximately 10 miles the road becomes Forest Road 60 and passes the Grizzly Creek Guard Station. Turn right on Forest Road 615. Drive approximately 3 miles and turn right into the Teal Lake Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Steamboat Springs, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 25°F, day 55°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 7°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 Lake Group Campsite 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 →