About North Fruita Desert Campground
Number of accommodations: 142
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2026 Season availability
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Reviews (304)
What Guests Are Saying
North Fruita Desert Campground offers a fantastic location right off the North 18 Road trails, making it ideal for mountain biking enthusiasts. The campground features spacious, clean sites with good amenities, and recent road paving has improved access significantly. While some reviews noted issues with toilet paper availability and occasional overcrowding, the overall experience is praised for its excellent trail access and well-maintained facilities.
What Guests Are Saying
North Fruita Desert Campground offers a fantastic location right off the North 18 Road trails, making it ideal for mountain biking enthusiasts. The campground features spacious, clean sites with good amenities, and recent road paving has improved access significantly. While some reviews noted issues with toilet paper availability and occasional overcrowding, the overall experience is praised for its excellent trail access and well-maintained facilities.
Review Summary
Nora O
VerifiedJune 6, 2022 • Stayed at: G18, Loop: G
It was nice and convenient
Patrick S
VerifiedJune 2, 2022 • Stayed at: D05, Loop: D
The mtn bike trails are the best! A little windy while was there but nice none-the-less.
Paul and Alison N
VerifiedJune 2, 2022 • Stayed at: D06, Loop: D
The reservation system is cumbersome. I sadly feel that customer service is not a priority and that there is a serious disconnect between the "system" and the parkstaff and customers. Is the only goal to make money?? That is what it seems like to all of us who have seen the befores and afters of this system.
Eric R
VerifiedMay 31, 2022 • Stayed at: G24, Loop: G
It's always hard to see one of your favorite places change, but we appreciate the management of the highly used camping areas, both for the sanitary additions of the bathrooms and the campsites and parking lot. Thanks to the employees who got it done and keep it running, keep up the good work!
The generous sizes of the sites is terrific. Hopefully people respect the boundaries and it can continue to be loosely managed, we sure do like sharing sites with multiple campers and cars etc.
It's also a bonus to be able to reserve a spot ahead of time when you're driving from 4hrs away down out of the mountains after work. Hopefully the no-show policy can get worked out, there seemed to be a huge number of empty spaces during the peak weekends we spent there this past May.
See you again soon!
Russell P
VerifiedMay 28, 2022 • Stayed at: G10, Loop: G
Site and bathroom were in great condition.
Maria S
VerifiedMay 24, 2022 • Stayed at: C15, Loop: C
This particular spot is definitely meant for non-tent campers. The picnic table and fire pit take up the entire flat area and don’t leave any real estate for a tent of really any size.
Torrey K
VerifiedMay 23, 2022 • Stayed at: A02, Loop: A
Campground is well organized. Vault toilets are clean. Space between campsites gives a good sense of privacy at least in the A loop. A trash dumpster would be helpful.
Stephen S
VerifiedMay 22, 2022 • Stayed at: B12, Loop: B
Great campsite situated pedal strokes from the goods! Glad it is more regulated in order to preserve.
Lauren A
VerifiedMay 20, 2022 • Stayed at: B03, Loop: B
Toilets, campsites, everything was very clean. The camp host was committed to providing an excellent experience. Not only did he re-stock toilet paper multiple times a day, he was really nice as well.
I just wish it wasn't so windy so we could have had more campfires.
Mary B
VerifiedMay 19, 2022 • Stayed at: B07, Loop: B
The best thing about this campground is the awesome location to some of the best trails anywhere. I did not know they added a new section which is where I had a site. Luckily I went by the day before and discovered this. The campground hosts were very nice.
I had ab17’ trailer and when I started looking for a level site, there were few to be found. The site I ended up getting was very nice and big If I had a tent or truck camper I would stay there again but not with a trailer.
Location North Fruita Desert Campground
Address:
18 Road
Fruita, CO, 81521
United States
Take Interstate 70 west to Fruita (exit 19). Turn north onto Cherry Street and take the first right onto Aspen Avenue. Go through the roundabout and continue on Aspen to Maple Street. Take a left on Maple Street and then travel north. The street will turn into 17.5 Road. Take a right on N.3 Road and then a left on 18 Road. Travel approximately 7 miles on 18 Road to the trailhead, event area and lower campground. Continue 1.5 miles north to reach the upper campground loops.
Latitude & Longitude: 39.334 / -108.704
Policies & Rules
| Category | About |
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| General |
The following campsites are available for reservation up to six months in advance of your stay: Sites A1 through A14 Sites B1 through B12 Sites G1 through G23 Sites H1 through H5 Group sites D9, D11 and G24 Sites J5 through J7 Sites K8 through K15The following campsites are available for reservation up to four days in advance of your stay: Sites C1-C21 Sites D1-D11 Sites E1-E12 Sites F1-F12 Sites J1 through J4 Sites K1 through K7 |
| General |
Campsites are limited to 10 people and two vehicles
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