USDA Forest Service · Colorado

White River National Forest campsites, sold out? Here's how spots come back.

📍 Colorado 🏕️ 38 campgrounds

How booking at White River National Forest works

Reservations for White River National Forest are made through Recreation.gov. In peak season, the most popular campgrounds are typically claimed within minutes of each release — which is why the park reads as "sold out" for most of the year.

Sold out is not final, though. People book far ahead and plans change, so cancellations return to the official calendar throughout the season — with no announcement, at any hour. A cancelled site is bookable by whoever sees it first.

Booking facts

Managed byUSDA Forest Service
Book throughRecreation.gov
Campgrounds38
Official listingRecreation.gov

Campgrounds in White River National Forest

Set a watch on the whole park, or go straight to the campground you want — each one has its own availability and cancellation pattern:

Peak One115 sites
Prospector107 sites
Heaton Bay87 sites
Chapman Campground and Group (CO)84 sites
Difficult Campground48 sites
Cow Creek South (CO)44 sites
Bogan Flats Campground and Group37 sites
Redstone37 sites
Deep Lake Campground29 sites
North Fork (CO)28 sites
Lowry Campground27 sites
Mollie B_White River26 sites
Gore Creek Campground25 sites
Blue River Campground (CO)24 sites
Marvine Campground23 sites
Yeoman Campground23 sites
Little Maud Campground22 sites
Prairie Point Campground (CO)22 sites
Camp Hale Memorial21 sites
Willows Campground (CO)21 sites
Elliott Creek Campground (CO)20 sites
Little Mattie Campground19 sites
South Fork (White River, CO)18 sites
Shepherds Rim Campground16 sites
Silver Bell Campground14 sites
Dearhamer Campground13 sites
Cow Creek North (CO)12 sites
East Marvine10 sites
Ruedi Marina Campground8 sites
Horse Thief7 sites
Silver Queen Campground6 sites
Silver Bar Campground4 sites
East Maroon Portal Picnic Site2 sites
Windy Point Group (Co)2 sites
Camp Hale East Fork Group1 sites
Maroon Bells Amphitheatre1 sites
Piney Guard Station1 sites
Tigiwon Community House1 sites

How ItOpened watches White River National Forest

We scan the official Recreation.gov calendar for White River National Forest around the clock. The second a site that matches your dates and equipment opens up, you get a text with a direct link to that exact site. You book it yourself, in your own account, at the normal price. We never book, hold, or resell anything — monitoring is all we do, and it's what your fee pays for. Openings are first-come, so a text beats an email every time.

Page data refreshed 2026-10-29. Availability facts come from the official directory listing for White River National Forest; cancellation statistics come from our own scanning logs.