U.S. Forest Service · Rio Grande National Forest · CO

Upper Beaver Creek Campground

The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
Right now
Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
A night
$10From, per site
Drawn from the record · 8,540 ft · 26% tree cover · Beaver Creek within reach · Bortle 2 sky
8,540 ftElevation
294 ftWater · Beaver Creek
17.7 miSW of Del Norte, CO
26%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 181st darkest of 522 in CO

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

The campground is composed of two sections laid out under ponderosa pine. Parking on several sites is side-by-side providing little privacy between sites. The nearby Beaver Creek Reservoir features a boat ramp and fishing for brown, brook and rainbow trout and kokanee salmon.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Boat ramp
Yes
Source: Stated in the agency description

Around the campground

On the water
Reservoir, Creek
Fall color · reported 12 days ago, 32 km away
Peak color
Source: Stated in the agency description
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (32 km) · Oct 5, 2026

Phone before you drive

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.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 17, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
A night$10Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$20DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 8

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night, from$10
Single site - $27 to $31/night.
Double site - $54 to $58/night.
Day-use - $12/day (picnicking).
Shoulder Season - $10/night Fee envelopes and a collection box are provided near the entrance.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$10
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$20

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($10), 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
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

This Afternoon58°Sunny
Tonight36°Partly Cloudy
Sunday57°Mostly Sunny4% rain
Sunday Night39°Slight Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Cloudy18% rain

NWS forecast for South Fork, CO

Typical weather

Typical October night 30°F, day 63°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.

90°32°0°

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.

Measured at: DEL NORTE 3ENE, CO (USC00052184), 21 miles away and 695 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
Tewksberry6,670 acres · 2 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Beaver Mountain7,141 acres · 2 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Trout Mountain / Elk Mountain33,454 acres · 6 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Who answers for this land

Jeff Hurd, official portrait

Upper Beaver Creek Campground 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice.
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (32 km) · Oct 5, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: South Fork, CO, 2.6 mi SSW. Straight line.