Colorado and Wyoming Campground Help

RockyMtnHi2 · 05-14-2015, 08:14 AM

We were just notified that our reserved campsite for Memorial Day weekend (May 21-25) has been cancelled due to flooding. Being the start of the camping season, there is absolutely nothing reservable available in the recreation.gov system. Does anyone have any information on Colorado and/or Wyoming campgrounds with non-reservable, first-come-first-serve sites? Any places that you've had good luck with in the past? We do not need hookups. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

BirchyBoy · 05-14-2015, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by RockyMtnHi2

We were just notified that our reserved campsite for Memorial Day weekend (May 21-25) has been cancelled due to flooding. Being the start of the camping season, there is absolutely nothing reservable available in the recreation.gov system. Does anyone have any information on Colorado and/or Wyoming campgrounds with non-reservable, first-come-first-serve sites? Any places that you've had good luck with in the past? We do not need hookups. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

St. Vrain?

ReserveAmerica.com is where I book mine. It lists the sites that are first-come-first-served as well.

**JRTJH** · 05-14-2015, 01:27 PM

If you go to this site: http://coloradostateparks.reserveamerica.com/ and put in your dates, it will show you all of the state parks in Colorado that have available reservations, those that are "phone confirm only" and those that are "walk up only".
I just checked and there were reservations available at Steamboat Lake, eleven mile, Yampa River, Crawford, John Martin Reservoir. There were others as well, but I've no idea whether or not they are "select sites" or just "so so" campgrounds.

RockyMtnHi2 · 05-14-2015, 01:46 PM

Thank you, John. Great resource I had forgotten about. We'll surely find something there.

RockyMtnHi2 · 05-14-2015, 01:47 PM

Birchy, thanks. Do you ever take chances with the first-come-first-serve spots around here?

BirchyBoy · 05-14-2015, 01:49 PM

We spent a couple nights at Stagecoach, near Steamboat Springs, a couple years ago. We were going to go Steamboat for a new nights as well, but the campground had been hit hard by beetle kill and we didn't think we would have enjoyed it. We went back to Stagecoach.

It's nothing spectacular, but the lake is very good and you can rent boats. That was the trip that got us into RV'ing!

http://www.stagecoachmarinastore.com...tagecoach.html

BirchyBoy · 05-14-2015, 01:49 PM

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Birchy, thanks. Do you ever take chances with the first-come-first-serve spots around here?

I haven't. Most are too far away for me to take a chance like that.

RockyMtnHi2 · 05-15-2015, 05:44 AM

We're all set! Must have stumbled upon a cancellation at Curt Gowdy State Park in Wyoming. Never been there before, but it looks like a beautiful place. Most sincere thanks for the help!

BirchyBoy · 05-15-2015, 06:04 AM

Have fun! That looks like a good place. The site says the RV sanitary dump is closed indefinitely. Better take it easy on the waste

koko · 05-17-2015, 08:11 AM

Curt Gowdy is an awesome place. They have great bike trails if that's one of your things. Glendo State Park is also very nice.

BOWWOW · 05-18-2015, 07:08 AM

We are going to Cinnabar Park in Albany, WY near Rob Roy reservoir later this year. I'm sure it is snowed in right now and considering recent snowfall it will be until sometime in July. We are headed down towards Durango to Mancos on Thursday with the atv's. I'm guessing it will be a mudfest again this year. Last year we saw 3 trucks and 5ver's chained together trying to pull out of a soggy campsite. They were close enough to the road that I was able to help them out. I'm curious what any campsite above 9,000 ft will be like in Colorado, cold I bet.

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