Rock Creek Rd in CO -- Camping Rules & Access

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Rock Creek Rd in CO

Road corridorPike and San Isabel NFs, South Park Ranger District

19 mi from Blue River

Maps 9,400 ft

Camping permission not confirmed

A stay limit is confirmed. It does not establish permission to camp here.

Pike-San Isabel National Forests ↗

Stay limit: 14 days · within 30 days · then move 20 mi
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Road Access

Difficult
  • Road difficulty 4 of 5: a difficult drive in.
  • Recorded as maintained for high-clearance vehicles, dirt, pitching to 30%, 100% of it on a shelf.
  • Estimated climb: 470 ft, with sustained grades near 18% and pitches to 40%.

Setting

Fairly secluded
  • Well separated here, with the nearest through road 0.8 miles off.
  • Coleman Spring lies 0.3 mi off.
  • South Twin Cone Peak stands 2,927 ft above the map pin, 5.3 miles north.

Rules

  • Camping within 100 feet of a body of water (such as a lake, stream, pond, or river) unless in a Forest Service developed recreation site or designated dispersed site.
  • Current fire orders

Climate averages

October normals 24–54°F, 1.2″ precipitation. Monthly averages, PRISM 1991–2020.