West Lake
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $41–$81Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 3635 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
West Lake Campground is located 48 miles northwest of Fort Collins, in north central Colorado, near the village of Red Feather Lakes. Visitors enjoy the area for its canoeing, fishing and trail opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Canoeing and fishing are popular activities on the 25-acre, no-wake West Lake. Anglers cast for rainbow and lake trout. Several additional lakes are in the vicinity. Many hiking, biking and horseback riding trails are in the surrounding area, including the 1.5-mile West Lake Trail and 4-mile Mount Margaret Trail. Several off-road vehicle trails are located within five miles of the campground. Other popular activities include viewing wildlife and visiting nearby Redfeather Visitor Center.
Facilities
The campground offers 31 accessible single- and double-family campsites, with electric hookups. Five additional sites are designated for tent camping only and do not have hookups. Each site contains a tent pad, picnic table and campfire ring with grill. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Firewood may be gathered in the forest or purchased from the campground host.
Natural Features
The campground is situated in a ponderosa pine forest, on the shore of West Lake, at an elevation of 8,200 feet. Afternoon thunderstorms can be expected during spring and summer months. Due to the mountain pine beetle infestation and removal of hazardous trees, some sites have reduced shade. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (530) 529-0578.
Nearby Attractions
The small village of Red Feather Lakes is nearby, offering limited dining options, gift shops, general stores, a library, post office and golf course.
Charges & Cancellations
Modifications for this campground must be made through Recreation.gov or by calling the call center at 1-877-444-6777 PRIOR to your reservation start date. Customers and contact center agents cannot modify reservations on or after the check-in date.
What the agency tells you
Drinking water is available until Sept. 30 each year. Sewer and water hookups are not available. Come with your RV/trailer water tank filled. Filling at campground hydrants cross-contaminates the system and is not allowed.
This is bear country! For bear and human safety, keep a clean campsite and do not place food or other attractants in your tent. For more information about visiting bear country, contact Colorado Parks and Wildlife at http://wildlife.state.co.us
Boating is restricted to small watercraft, powered by hand, wind or electric motors
Everything else this campground posts · 9
Off-road vehicles are prohibited within the campground
https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/arp for more information on the Arapaho and Roosevelt 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.
All campsites must be occupied within 26 hours of the beginning of the reservation. If not present the site will be rented by first come first serve basis.
EXTRA VEHICLE FEES: One vehicle is included in your reservation. Any additional vehicles will be charged $8.00 per vehicle per night and will be collected by the camp host if you did not pay for the Extra Vehicle Add On. One vehicle consists of one camper being towed by vehicle, or any other vehicle towed behind camper. One van or one truck with camper attached counts as one vehicle. Extra vehicles must fit on the parking spur at your site.
Fire Restrictions: Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed.
Tents must fit on the pads provided. RVs, trailers or other vehicles must fit on the parking spur. Driving or parking off road is not permitted. The parking length ranges from 35 to 80 feet.
Modifications for this campground must be made through Recreation.gov PRIOR to your reservation start date. Customers and contact center agents cannot modify reservations on or after the check-in date.
Check-Out is at 12 P.M. Check-In is at 2 P.M.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 36 · 5 walk-in
- Hookups
- 30 electric
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- 36
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…table and campfire ring with grill. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Firewood may be…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…ring with grill. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Firewood may be gathered in the…”
- Store
- Nearby
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Biking
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 398th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 35 of the 36 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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 · 14
What you actually pay
“Any additional vehicles will be charged $8.00 per vehicle per night and will be collected by the camp host if you did not pay for the Extra Vehicle Add On.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $41–$81 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.
“Modifications for this campground must be made through Recreation.gov or by calling the call center at 1-877-444-6777 PRIOR to your reservation start date. Customers and contact center agents cannot modify reservations on or after the check-in date.” · 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 · 7
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
36 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 34 mapped sitesAll 36 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 34 of the 36 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 35 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.
| WEST LAKE | 01 | walk to | yes | 70 ft | 80 ftWest Lake | 248 ft | $28 | ||
| WEST LAKE | 02 | walk to | yes | 70 ft | 122 ftWest Lake | 289 ft | $28 | ||
| WEST LAKE | 03 | walk to | yes | 96 ft | 217 ftWest Lake | 332 ft | $28 | ||
| WEST LAKE | 04 | walk to | yes | 46 ft | 156 ftWest Lake | 204 ft | $28 | ||
| WEST LAKE | 05 | walk to | yes | 46 ft | 175 ftWest Lake | 240 ft | $28 | ||
| WEST LAKE | 06 | standard electric | 35 ft | 15 amp | yes | 72 ft | 187 ftWest Lake | 134 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 07 | standard electric | 31 ft | 15 amp | yes | 64 ft | 245 ftWest Lake | 52 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 08 | standard electric | 31 ft | 15 amp | yes | 74 ft | 306 ftWest Lake | 22 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 09 | standard electric | 30 ft | 15 amp | yes | 64 ft | 267 ftWest Lake | 101 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 10 | standard electric | 32 ft | 15 amp | yes | 80 ft | 224 ftWest Lake | 179 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 11 | standard electric | 40 ft | 15 amp | yes | 133 ft | 362 ftWest Lake | 151 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 12 | standard electric | 30 ft | 15 amp | yes | 81 ft | 193 ftWest Lake | 251 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 13 | type not stated | 33 ft | 15 amp | yes | ||||
| WEST LAKE | 14 | standard electric | 30 ft | 15 amp | yes | 120 ft | 159 ftWest Lake | 162 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 15 | standard electric | 30 ft | 15 amp | yes | 157 ft | 160 ftWest Lake | 97 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 16 | standard electric | 30 ft | 15 amp | yes | 86 ft | 324 ftWest Lake | 222 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 17 | standard electric | 37 ft | 15 amp | yes | 97 ft | 204 ftWest Lake | 304 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 18 | standard electric | 36 ft | 15 amp | yes | 96 ft | 235 ftWest Lake | 230 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 19 | standard electric | 31 ft | 15 amp | yes | 83 ft | 372 ftWest Lake | 143 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 20 | standard electric | 30 ft | 15 amp | yes | 115 ft | 273 ftWest Lake | 106 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 21 | standard electric | 30 ft | 15 amp | yes | 83 ft | 385 ftWest Lake | 65 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 22 | standard electric | 34 ft | 15 amp | yes | 112 ft | 400 ftWest Lake | 101 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 23 | standard electric | 33 ft | 15 amp | yes | 131 ft | 268 ftWest Lake | 95 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 24 | standard electric | 30 ft | 15 amp | yes | 94 ft | 359 ftWest Lake | 187 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 25 | standard electric | 30 ft | 15 amp | yes | 135 ft | 159 ftWest Lake | 322 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 26 | standard electric | 34 ft | 15 amp | yes | 215 ft | 90 ftWest Lake | 479 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 27 | standard electric | 30 ft | 15 amp | yes | 113 ft | 153 ftWest Lake | 269 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 28 | standard electric | 30 ft | 15 amp | yes | 113 ft | 74 ftWest Lake | 171 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 29 | standard electric | 30 ft | 15 amp | yes | 94 ft | 387 ftWest Lake | 280 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 30 | standard electric | 30 ft | 15 amp | yes | 103 ft | 430 ftWest Lake | 383 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 31 | standard electric | 30 ft | 15 amp | yes | 48 ft | 435 ftWest Lake | 513 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 32 | standard electric | 30 ft | 15 amp | yes | 119 ft | 286 ftWest Lake | 334 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 33 | standard electric | 30 ft | 15 amp | yes | $41–$81 | |||
| WEST LAKE | 34 | standard electric | 30 ft | 15 amp | yes | 48 ft | 449 ftWest Lake | 561 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 35 | standard electric | 30 ft | 15 amp | yes | 132 ft | 347 ftWest Lake | 514 ft | $41–$81 |
| WEST LAKE | 36 | standard electric | 30 ft | 15 amp | yes | 101 ft | 479 ftWest Lake | 588 ft | $41–$81 |
25 of 36 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Redfeather Ranger StationRoosevelt National Forest · 0.3 mi
Dowdy LakeRoosevelt National Forest · 0.6 mi
Bellaire Lake CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 2.8 mi
North Fork Poudre CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 7.6 mi
Kelly Flats CampgroundRoosevelt National Forest · 8.7 mi
Mountain ParkRoosevelt National Forest · 9.0 miFrom Fort Collins, take Highway 287 north approximately 24 miles to Livermore. Turn west on County Road 74 and continue 24 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Red Feather Lakes, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 29°F, day 56°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 15°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
West Lake 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 →