St Charles Campground - Lake Isabel in CO -- Campground & RV Camping in Colorado
St Charles Campground - Lake Isabel in CO
U.S. Forest Service allows overnight stays only at the designated sites here.
St. Charles Campground sits at 8,600 feet in the Wet Mountains along the boulder-lined banks of St. Charles Creek, one mile west of Lake Isabel. Shaded by aspens and tall Douglas firs, the facility accommodates tent and small trailer camping. Each site includes a tent pad, bear-proof food locker, picnic table, fire ring, and fire pedestal. Amenities feature accessible vault toilets, hand-pumped drinking water, and trash dumpsters. Anglers fish for brook trout in the creek and rainbow trout at the lake, while nearby options include the Snowslide and Cisneros trails.
Road difficulty 1 of 5 -- an easy drive in. Recorded as maintained for passenger-car comfort, paved, pitching to 6%. Flat ground is scarce -- under a tenth of the terrain within a few hundred yards is level.
Saint Charles River runs 0.1 mi off. Saint Charles Peak stands 3,168 ft above the site, 3.9 miles northwest. Exposed here -- the nearest through road is 0.1 miles off, a 15-site campground. The nearest town, Colorado City, is 12 mi off.
September normals 44–69°F, 2.2″ rain. Monthly averages, PRISM 1991–2020.
Set by U.S. Forest Service. Stage 1 and 2 orders change within days -- check the current order before you build a fire.
fs.usda.gov