Timberline Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $27–$54Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 24All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Timberline Campground, near Kenosha Pass, is about 7 miles southwest of the small town of Grant. The abundance of aspens at the site creates impressive fall scenery along the forested hillside. Wildlife in the area includes golden eagles, elk, mule deer, moose, chipmunks and porcupines. Keep reading
Recreation
The Colorado Trail is located within one mile of the campground and offers abundant hiking, biking and horseback riding opportunities. The epic 471-mile trail stretches across Colorado from Denver to Durango. Visitors may also enjoy fishing in Hoosier Creek.
Facilities
No drinking water is available and the roads through the campground are dirt and gravel. Each loop has a parking spur, picnic table, campfire ring and grill. There are 2 vault toilets within the campground. Firewood may be purchased at the nearby Kenosha Pass Campground.
Natural Features
The family campsites are divided into two loops, that are separated by a rise. Both loops sit among a stand of aspen, spruce and lodgepole pines along Hoosier Creek. The campground sits at an altitude of 9,700 feet and features mild summer temperatures and cool nights.
Nearby Attractions
Fairplay, Colorado, once a frontier boomtown, is home to the South Park City Museum, which includes 34 authentic historical buildings and 60,000 artifacts. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.
Charges & Cancellations
Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee including tax and applicable add-on for a campsite. Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee. No-Shows A no-show visitor is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. Staff will hold a campsite until check-out time on the day following the arrival date. No-shows are assessed $20.00 service fee and forfeit the first night's rate, taxes and applicable add-on for a campsite. Refunds Visitors may submit a refund request through their Recreation.gov profile within 7 days of the end date of their reservation. Refunds will not be issued after the 7 days has ended. Refunds for debit or credit card payments will be issued as a credit to the original bank or credit card used to pay. For check or cash purchases, Recreation.gov will mail a Treasury check for refunds of cash, check, or money order payments to the address associated with the reservation. Treasury check refunds may take up to 6-8 weeks to arrive. In the event of an emergency closure, the Recreation.gov team or facility manager will refund all fees and will attempt to notify you using the contact information within the Recreation.gov visitor profile.
What the agency tells you
There is no potable water at the campground; Water is available at Kenosha Pass Campground
Please bring garbage bags; this is a 'pack it in-pack it out' facility
Thunderstorms are common; take extra precautions for lightning
Everything else this campground posts · 6
This is a high elevation facility, please use caution when traveling from lower elevations
Be bear aware; keep all food out of sight in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from area after eating
No firearms or fireworks
No RV hookups are available
For more information on Pike and San Isabel National Forests, click here
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 24
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 36 ft
- Accessible sites
- 22
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campfire ring and grill. There are 2 vault toilets within the campground. Firewood may be purchased at…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…fishing in Hoosier Creek. Facilities No drinking water is available and the roads through the campground…”
- Firewood
- Sold here
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 439th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 14 days ago, 25 km away
- Peak color
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:24 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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 rates for this season, $27–$54 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.
“Cancellations Individual Campsites: Cancellations up to 2 days before a reservation start date incur a $10.00 cancellation fee. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee including tax and applicable add-on for a cam…” · this campground’s own no-show 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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 16:24 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
25 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 24 mapped sitesAll 25 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. 24 of the 25 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Loop 1 | 001 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 125 ft | 1,363 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop 1 | 002- Host site | host pad | 45 ft | yes | 1,304 ft | ||
| Loop 1 | 003 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 21 ft | 1,283 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop 1 | 004 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 21 ft | 1,279 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop 1 | 005 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 23 ft | 1,289 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop 1 | 006/007 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | yes | 17 ft | 1,292 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop 1 | 008 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | yes | 17 ft | 1,308 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop 1 | 009 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | yes | 18 ft | 1,346 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop 1 | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 18 ft | 1,362 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop 1 | 011 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | yes | 20 ft | 1,371 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop 1 | 012 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 23 ft | 1,399 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop 1 | 013 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 20 ft | 1,391 ft | $27–$54 | |
| Loop 1 | 014 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 32 ft | 1,423 ft | $27–$54 | |
| Loop 1 | 015 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | yes | 51 ft | 1,473 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop 2 | 017 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 43 ft | 1,349 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop 2 | 018 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | yes | 31 ft | 1,307 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop 2 | 019 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | yes | 31 ft | 1,287 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop 2 | 020 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 40 ft | 1,282 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop 2 | 021/022 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | yes | 40 ft | 1,299 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop 2 | 023/024 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 48 ft | 1,396 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop 2 | 025/026 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 37 ft | 1,439 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop 2 | 027 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 37 ft | 1,476 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop 2 | 028/029 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 39 ft | 1,512 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop 2 | 030 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 85 ft | 1,566 ft | $27–$54 |
| Loop 2 | 031 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 208 ft | 1,555 ft | $27–$54 |
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 agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Kenosha Pass CampgroundPike National Forest · 1.3 miHandcartPike National Forest · 4.0 miHall ValleyPike National Forest · 4.2 mi
Aspen (CO)Pike National Forest · 4.2 miLodgepole CampgroundPike National Forest · 4.3 miFrom Denver, Colorado, take Highway 285 southwest to Park County Rd. 58. Turn right at County Rd. 58 and follow road to Forest Road 125. Turn right and follow road about 0.5 miles to the campground entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Montezuma, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 29°F, day 50°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 12°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
Timberline Campground is in Colorado’s 7th congressional district. Its representative, Brittany Pettersen (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →