Tigiwon Community House
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This place has sites and nobody may sleep in them.Ask for camping here →
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The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
The historic Tigiwon Community house is a large day-use cabin, perfect for family reunions, parties or weddings. Nestled in a forested setting, this facility has an expansive view of Colorado's Gore Range. Keep reading
Recreation
Encompassing a landscape of rivers, mountains, trails, and forest roads, the White River National Forest is one of the top recreation Forests in the nation. The Community House is a few miles below a trailhead which accesses the Holy Cross Wilderness Area. Several trails lead into this special place, please learn about wilderness ethics and regulations before hiking.
Facilities
Tigiwon Community House is a day-use area only. Overnight camping is prohibited. The historic Tigiwon Community house is a relatively large, one room cabin. Amenities both inside and outside the cabin are Accessible. Outside, visitors will have access to four 10-foot picnic tables, two charcoal grills, a fire pit, a horseshoe pit and vault toilets. Inside amenities include four tables, bench seating around the room and a stone fireplace.
Natural Features
In the heart of the Rocky Mountains, the 2.3 million acre White River National Forest is a place of serenity and adventure, boasting eight wilderness areas and ten peaks surpassing 14,000 feet in elevation. The White River National Forest was established in 1891 as the White River Plateau Timber Reserve, the second such reserve to be named in the United States.
Nearby Attractions
Tigiwon Community House is in the heart of the Vail Valley. It is inbetween the Holy Cross and Eagles Nest Wilderness Areas which abound with hiking trails. The valley floor has mountain bike trail opportunties. The Eagle and Colorado Rivers flow through the valley and offer many floating and fishing opportunities.
Charges & Cancellations
1-50 people = $85 51 -100 people = $135 101-200 people = $185
What the agency tells you
The road to the Community House is narrow and rocky, but passable for most passenger cars
Fees for facility are as follows: 1-50 people = $85.00 51-100 people = $110.00 101-150 people = $160.00 151-200 people = $210.00
This is a day-use area only; overnight camping prohibited
Everything else this campground posts · 12
There is no drinking water or electricity hook-ups at this site. Use of generators is prohibited.
The road is closed in winter and spring (November 23 to June 20) to motor vehicles except snowmobiles
Summer day use is from 8:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m.
The facility is locked with a combination lock
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.
Amplified music is permitted between 8 am and 10 pm. Music shall be 80 decibels or less as to not disturb other forest users.
Pre-paid food and drink vendors and an event officiant are permissible so long as the vendor and/or officiant only provide services to the guests of the event. No other service shall be offered to other recreation visitors.
Flowers and other decorations are allowed so long as all items are removed immediately post event and not be allowed to blow away or be strewn about the site. Decoration shall not be affixed to natural features such as trees, rocks, or other vegetation.
Commercial filming and still photography are permissible so long as the products are only available to the client who booked the venue. No other re-sale is allowable.
Additional pre-paid seating and appropriately sized tents are permissible at this venue. All tents and seating shall be placed on hardened surfaces.
Release or throwing of animals, vegetation, or any other materials is prohibited. This is a natural forest environment, and all celebratory items shall reflect the setting.
All vendor-provided equipment shall be removed by site check out time as described on Recreation.gov. The reservation holder is responsible for removal of all equipment and conduct of their vendor.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…grills, a fire pit, a horseshoe pit and vault toilets. Inside amenities include four tables, bench…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Biking
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Fall color · reported 12 days ago, 13 km away
- Peak color
Nothing here to sleep in
The agency files 1 record here and marks it day use, not overnight. On its own record there’s nothing here to spend the night in.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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Every line of the receipt · 9
What you actually pay
“1-50 people = $85 51 -100 people = $135 101-200 people = $185” · 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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 records · the site map
All 1 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 1 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
| TIGIWON COMMUNITY | COMMHO | day use | 3,800 ft | 66 ft |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Camp Hale MemorialCamp Hale - Continental Divide National Monument · 9.1 mi
Camp Hale East Fork GroupCamp Hale - Continental Divide National Monument · 10 mi
Gore Creek CampgroundWhite River National Forest · 11 miFrom Denver, go approximately 105 miles to exit 171. Take Highway 24 south through the town of Minturn to the Tigiwon Road/Forest Service Road 707 and turn right. Follow the Tigiwon Road approximately 6 miles to the Community House. Make sure you pick up a free Motor Vehicle Use Map either at the White River National Forest webpage or at the office located in Minturn. This map will direct you to what Forest Service roads are open to motorized travel by the kind of vehicle and time of year.
The parking area in front of the community house can accommodate approximately 15-20 cars.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Minturn, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 24°F, day 51°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 3°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 · a letter you can send
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
Tigiwon Community House 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 →
Who can change it · 3
The agency’s own record files sites here and marks every one of them day use. The draft asks whether any could open to overnight camping, and if not, why.
- The member who votes the moneyJoe NeguseU.S. Representative · Colorado’s 2nd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJohn W. HickenlooperU.S. Senator · Colorado
- Your senator, on the same appropriationMichael F. BennetU.S. Senator · Colorado
Read the draft, or change the wording
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Tigiwon Community House has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Joe Neguse, I’m a constituent in Colorado’s 2nd district. Tigiwon Community House, White River National Forest, Colorado carries 1 record on the U.S. Forest Service’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Tigiwon Community House (White River National Forest, Colorado) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Tigiwon Community House has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear John W. Hickenlooper, I’m a constituent in Colorado. Tigiwon Community House, White River National Forest, Colorado carries 1 record on the U.S. Forest Service’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Tigiwon Community House (White River National Forest, Colorado) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Tigiwon Community House has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Michael F. Bennet, I’m a constituent in Colorado. Tigiwon Community House, White River National Forest, Colorado carries 1 record on the U.S. Forest Service’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Tigiwon Community House (White River National Forest, Colorado) via campanac.com