Rock Creek Campground
- May–Sep
- best months
Is Rock Creek Campground open right now?
Alert in the area
The Forest Service lists 3 alerts for Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest.
Access Impact: Big Creek Lakes Dam Project
Agency alert covering Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · USFS · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest
Trail & Access Impact: Stillwater Reservoir Project
Agency alert covering Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · USFS · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest
Snowy Range - 2026 Active Vegetation Operations
Agency alert covering Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · USFS · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest
As of · Source: USFS · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest. Agencies don't list every closure — check before you go.
- At 8,900 ftHigh camp: expect cold nights, even in summer
- Yampa Ranger DistrictMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest
Rock Creek Campground is a Forest Service site in the Yampa Ranger District of the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest in Colorado. It sits in the high country, and the nearest town is Yampa, about 16 miles away. The site has vault toilets, and no fees are required to use it. That makes it a simple base for an overnight stay in the forest, with no cost to set up camp. Summer is the most comfortable time to visit. Typical averages from the nearby Yampa weather station show July highs around 79°F with lows near 46°F, and the station sits about 1,000 feet lower than the campground, so temperatures here run cooler. Blacktail Creek Campground is about 2.4 miles away, and Lynx Pass Campground is about 3.7 miles away. Mountain bikers can ride Old Highway Road, about 2.2 miles off, and paddlers can head to Rock Creek, about 4.1 miles away.
Local outfitters
- Rancho Del Rio13 mi away
- Backdoor Sports30 mi away
Not on Roamze yet. Their page has how to reach them.
- old highway roadMountain biking2.2 mi
- Blacktail Creek CampgroundCamping2.4 mi
- radium roadMountain biking2.7 mi
- blacktail roadMountain biking2.7 mi
- Lynx Pass CampgroundCamping3.7 mi
- Rock CreekCanoeing4.1 mi
Electric WallRock climbingPhoto: Loco Steve, CC BY 3.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)9.7 mi- Apple CiderRock climbingPhoto: Loco Steve, CC BY 3.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)9.8 mi
Source: Roamze catalog (indexable pages within 10 miles, PostGIS distance)
Rancho Del RioCamping · ~21 min drivePhoto: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)
Red Mountain RV ParkCamping · ~23 min drivePhoto: inkknife_2000 (7.5 million views +), CC BY-SA 2.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)
Pinnacle CampgroundCamping · ~32 min drivePhoto: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)- McKindley Group CampgroundCamping · ~33 min drivePhoto: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Dumont CampgroundCamping · ~39 min drive
- Lynx Pass CampgroundCamping · ~6 min drive
- Red Dirt Reservoir CamgroundCamping · ~13 min drive
- Pumphouse Recreation AreaCamping · ~15 min drive
- Radium Recreation AreaCamping · ~16 min drive
- Wolford CampgroundCamping · ~21 min drive
Best time to visit Rock Creek Campground
Best months: May–September. Best months have typical highs of 55–85 °F, lows of 30 °F or warmer (32 °F where the station doesn't record snow), at most one snowy day and no more than 12 wet days.
Jan
32° / 7°
12 wet
Feb
34° / 9°
11 wet
Mar
43° / 17°
10 wet
Apr
52° / 24°
11 wet
May
62° / 33°
10 wet
Jun
74° / 40°
8 wet
Jul
79° / 46°
10 wet
Aug
77° / 45°
11 wet
Sep
70° / 37°
9 wet
Oct
57° / 27°
8 wet
Nov
42° / 17°
9 wet
Dec
32° / 8°
11 wet
Typical high / low (°F) and days with rain or snow, 1991–2020. Measured at Yampa, CO, 16.2 mi away at 7,857 ft. The station sits about 1,000 ft lower than this place, so expect it a little cooler here. This station doesn't record snowfall. Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020.
