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Rocky Mountain National Park Timber Creek Campground is on the park's west side near Grand Lake, run by the National Park Service. It has tent and RV sites, with an official RV limit of 30 ft. A reservation here counts as Rocky Mountain National Park timed entry for the rest of the park, but not the Bear Lake Road corridor.
This weekend (Fri, Nov 6 – Sun, Nov 8): Closed for season. Closed for the season since noon Oct 5, 2026; NPS hasn't posted summer 2027 dates yet. Moraine Park is the only park campground open in winter. Source: NPS — Rocky Mountain National Park: Camping
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| Site | Fr 6 | Sa 7 | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| A001 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| A003 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| A004 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| A005 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| A006 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| A007 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| A008 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| A009 walk to | – | – | $35 |
| A010 walk to | – | – | $35 |
| A011 walk to | – | – | $35 |
| A012 walk to | – | – | $35 |
| A013 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| A014 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| A015 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| A017 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| A018 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| B020 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| B021 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| B022 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| B023 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| B024 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| B025 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| B026 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| B027 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| B028 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| B029 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| B030 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| B034 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| B036 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| B037 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| B038 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| B039 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| B040 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| B041 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| B043 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| B044 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| B050 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
| B051 walk to | – | – | $35 |
| B052 walk to | – | – | $35 |
| C053 standard nonelectric | – | – | $35 |
✓ available · R reserved · X not available · C closed · W first come, first served · N not yet released
No timed entry reservation is listed for this date in the rest of the park.
Rules checked October 17, 2026 · Source: NPS Rocky Mountain National Park timed entry page (updated May 14, 2026). Campground entry rules apply to reservations at Moraine Park, Glacier Basin, Aspenglen, Timber Creek.
Rules checked October 17, 2026 · Source: NPS Rocky Mountain National Park timed entry page (updated May 14, 2026) · Full guide and campground matrix
Managed by National Park Service (Rocky Mountain National Park, west side). Official facts link to their source; “Listing” facts come from the Recreation.gov listing. Anything we can't source says so.
Nearby parks (straight-line): Rocky Mountain National Park 15.3 mi
Official limit 30 ft (NPS max RV/trailer length for Timber Creek). Official road and access notes apply. Unsure if your rig fits? Check it in the Estes Park Rig Fit tool
16018 US HWY 34
17.3 mi from downtown Estes Park (straight-line)
11.7 mi to Bear Lake (straight-line)
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Timber Creek Campground sits on the park's west side along the Colorado River at about 8,900 feet (3,000 m), roughly eight miles north of the Grand Lake entrance and reached by following Trail Ridge Road across the park if you're coming from the Estes Park side. The site's character is shaped by recent disturbances mountain pine beetle and wildfire removed much of the mature canopy, so campsites are exposed with little natural shade; that openness, however, makes it easy to see regrowth in the surrounding forest, wildflower-filled meadows in summer, and frequent wildlife such as mule deer and …
xu l ★ 5 · Oct 2025awesome and amazing place!!!!!!
Vernon L ★ 5 · Oct 2025The campground was clean, neat and quiet. The check in was easy and my tent site level and without any obstructions.
Ryan Y ★ 4 · Oct 2025Great spot on the western side of the park, especially if you're into the Elk Rut and everything that comes with it, which includes their singing throughout the night haha. The bathrooms here were some of the worst among National Park campgrounds we've stayed in and there isn't any hot water available, if that's important to you. We stayed at campsite 86 and although we loved the fact it felt pretty spacious, there were some bug issues to note. In the morning, the flies really come out if you're cooking breakfast once the sun hits your site. On the flip side, if you come back before sunset, those white little flies invade your campsite until the sun fades down for the night. If you're like we were, where you pretty much stay out in the park from sun up to sun down, that won't matter a ton, but if you're someone that likes to enjoy your campsite during the day it may be a bit of a drag when enjoying the scenery. Perhaps this is something that happens in the first week of October, and I should note that site 86 looks out to a little pond of standing water about 150 feet away, so our thought was maybe that made it a bigger issue than we thought it should've. Only other notable thing is it's about a 90-minute to the Glacier Gorge area in the east part of the park. Grand Lake, the town 10 miles south of this campsite, seems like a place you should really explore if you're staying multiple days. That lake is enormous and the surrounding town has everything you'd want from shops to coffee to restaurants, etc. Last note. Buy the firewood from the campsite. It burned so much better than the bundle we got in Grand Lake.
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