About Bear Lake Campground
**9/26/2024: This campground is now closed for the season and will re-open for the 2025 season. ** The Bear Lake Campground is located 11 miles outside of Yampa, Colorado on Forest Service Road 900. The campground opens annually June 15th (varies with weather). You can find the typical range of outdoor recreation, from fishing and boating, to great hiking and also popular for big game hunting during the fall. There are 43 campsites (3 double-site and 1 triple-site), vault toilets, potable water, and trash services. The sites are surrounded with a mixed conifer and aspen stand. Though Bear Lake is located outside the campground, the campsites do not offer lake views and only a few have views of the Flat Tops. (This campground can accomodate trailers up to 30 feet in length. (For those with longer trailers, we recommend the designated camp sites outside the campground which can accomodate…
- Fees: $20/single site, $30/double site, $40/triple site per day **Must pay with exact cash or check as credit cards are not accepted. **
- Season: Mid-June – Early-Mid October (Weather dependent)
- Managed by: USFS - Medicine Bow-Routt NFs and Thunder Basin NG
- Where: 14 mi southwest of Phippsburg, CO · 40.0465, -107.07431
Things to do:
Official page for this camp (fees, closures, booking)
Weather by month
Typical daily highs and lows (°F), 1991–2020 NOAA normals. Best months: Jul–Aug (comfortable days, mild nights, little rain). Nights below freezing: Oct–May.
Fly over it in 3D, check today's weather and fire news, plan the drive and print a trip plan.
Trails near camp
| Trail | Open to | From camp | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mandall Lakes | Horse | 0.1 mi | 5.3 mi |
| Rams Horn Lake | ATV road | 1.3 mi | 1.6 mi |
| Dome Creek | ATV road | 1.3 mi | 1.5 mi |
| Sand Creek | Horse | 1.9 mi | 10.1 mi |
| Ute-Heart Lake | ATV / OHV, Dirt bike | 2.3 mi | 7.0 mi |
| Smith Lake | Hiking | 2.4 mi | 0.7 mi |
Straight-line distance from camp, from Forest Service, BLM, state and OpenStreetMap trail data.
Good to know
No signal at camp
From the carriers' FCC coverage maps, which tend to be generous.The Milky Way casts shadows and the sky is crowded with stars.
Class 1 of 9, from NASA/NOAA night-light data.Dump station: 19.9 mi
Nearest of each within 25 miles, straight-line.