About Rocky Mountain National Park Timber Creek Campground
Number of accommodations: 79
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Dump Station
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2026 Season availability
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Reviews (425)
What Guests Are Saying
Timber Creek Campground in Rocky Mountain National Park offers a beautiful, quiet setting with abundant wildlife, including elk and moose. The campground features clean facilities, friendly staff, and a good location for accessing trails and nearby Grand Lake. While some sites are close together and lack privacy, visitors appreciate the peaceful atmosphere and overall camping experience in this less crowded area of the park.
What Guests Are Saying
Timber Creek Campground in Rocky Mountain National Park offers a beautiful, quiet setting with abundant wildlife, including elk and moose. The campground features clean facilities, friendly staff, and a good location for accessing trails and nearby Grand Lake. While some sites are close together and lack privacy, visitors appreciate the peaceful atmosphere and overall camping experience in this less crowded area of the park.
Review Summary
Daniel P
VerifiedNovember 11, 2025 • Stayed at: A018, Loop: Loop A
Nice campground. Timber creek runs along the perimeter of the campground. Trails flow the creek as well, but don’t appear on the park map. Elk and moose in the area. Great stargazing at night.
Daniel H
November 11, 2025
Unlike some other campgrounds at RMNP, this place has private little campsites with good access to spartan bathrooms (cold water only, no showers, not terribly clean). This is a rather remote area for most visitors, as it is at the far west side of the park with no access to the nice places on the eastern side. But as a pure camping experience, it is pretty good.
xu l
VerifiedOctober 15, 2025 • Stayed at: C053, Loop: Loop C
awesome and amazing place!!!!!!
Vernon L
October 15, 2025
The campground was clean, neat and quiet. The check in was easy and my tent site level and without any obstructions.
Ryan Y
VerifiedOctober 12, 2025 • Stayed at: D086, Loop: Loop D
Great spot on the western side of the park, especially if you're into the Elk Rut and everything that comes with it, which includes their singing throughout the night haha. The bathrooms here were some of the worst among National Park campgrounds we've stayed in and there isn't any hot water available, if that's important to you. We stayed at campsite 86 and although we loved the fact it felt pretty spacious, there were some bug issues to note. In the morning, the flies really come out if you're cooking breakfast once the sun hits your site. On the flip side, if you come back before sunset, those white little flies invade your campsite until the sun fades down for the night. If you're like we were, where you pretty much stay out in the park from sun up to sun down, that won't matter a ton, but if you're someone that likes to enjoy your campsite during the day it may be a bit of a drag when enjoying the scenery. Perhaps this is something that happens in the first week of October, and I should note that site 86 looks out to a little pond of standing water about 150 feet away, so our thought was maybe that made it a bigger issue than we thought it should've. Only other notable thing is it's about a 90-minute to the Glacier Gorge area in the east part of the park. Grand Lake, the town 10 miles south of this campsite, seems like a place you should really explore if you're staying multiple days. That lake is enormous and the surrounding town has everything you'd want from shops to coffee to restaurants, etc.
Last note. Buy the firewood from the campsite. It burned so much better than the bundle we got in Grand Lake.
Carolyn M
VerifiedOctober 10, 2025 • Stayed at: D096, Loop: Loop D
I was glad to have a place to stay for the night, but it was not a comfortable stay.
My site was one of three parking spaces the size of spaces at a regular parking lot. The vehicle next to me was an RV that had to maneuver quite a bit to get into the space without hitting my car. There wasn't much room for either of us to open doors and get in and out. No privacy 😪.
Also, there was no "comfort station"/bathroom in the loop that I was in.
Jeremy D
VerifiedOctober 9, 2025 • Stayed at: B023, Loop: Loop B
This specific site is really private within trees. Amenities are nice within the overall campground, but most sites have little privacy. Lack of noise from the river or road makes sound carry easily.
Lynn O
VerifiedOctober 7, 2025 • Stayed at: A017, Loop: Loop A
Nice campsite. Basic but fine
Elizabeth G
VerifiedOctober 6, 2025 • Stayed at: D093, Loop: Loop D
Campsites are very close together. Small pine trees separate campsites so there is privacy but that doesn't help if someone shows up in the next campsite with a loud generator. Also it is a long walk from sites in loop D to the bathroom. Otherwise the campground is beautiful.
Greg Q
VerifiedOctober 6, 2025 • Stayed at: C060, Loop: Loop C
Wonderful campground. The trees have grown back nicely after the beetle infestation. Short walk to the Colorado River. No cell service. I had elk in my campsite every morning.
Location Rocky Mountain National Park Timber Creek Campground
Address:
16018 Us Hwy 34
Grand Lake, CO, 80447
United States
From Grand Lake, Colorado:
Drive north on U.S. Highway 34 and enter Rocky Mountain National Park via the Grand Lake Entrance. Drive along Trail Ridge Road for 8 miles (13 km) from the park entrance and follow signs to Timber Creek Campground. The campground will be on the left.
From Estes Park, Colorado:
Enter Rocky Mountain National Park via the Beaver Meadows or Fall River Entrances. Follow Trail Ridge Road west for approximately 35 miles, crossing the Continental Divide. The entrance to Timber Creek Campground is located on the right side of the road.
Latitude & Longitude: 40.3792 / -105.85
Elevation: 2731 feet
Policies & Rules
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Need to Know - You must scroll down and read all of the "Need to Know Information" below.
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Camping space is extremely limited. Ensure your camping unit or equipment will fit in your chosen site. Other options may not be available.
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Entrance Fee. A park entrance fee is required to enter Rocky Mountain National Park, or show your annual or lifetime park pass. You may pay the entrance fee upon arrival.
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Check-in Time. Check-in begins at 1 p.m. |
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Site Limits. Each site is limited to eight (8) persons and one camping unit (i.e., a tent, RV, or trailer/tow vehicle) plus one additional tent per standard nonelectric site. All tents shall be located on the tent pad. All additional camp structures must be self standing without impacts to vegetation or trees. Parking is limited. Some sites can only accommodate one (1) vehicle. Each vehicle must be parked on the gravel or paved parking pad causing no resource degradation or encroachment onto the paved access road. Some sites will accommodate only one vehicle on the graveled parking pad. Extra vehicles must park in overflow areas.Maximum length of stay. The maximum length of stay during peak season is 7 nights. Please check the rules and regulations before making your reservation. |
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Be Advised: Trailer length is the total maxium vehicle length allowable.
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Maximum Vehicle + Trailer Length = Vehicle + Trailer + Hitch = 30 ft at Timber Creek campground. |
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No Hookups. There are no RV hookups available.
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Food Storage and Wildlife. Bears, deer, elk, raccoons and skunks frequent the area. All food, pet food, cooking utensils and other scented items must be stored in a food storage locker, located in the campground. |
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Firewood. Firewood is available for purchase inside Timber Creek Campground or in the Town of Grand Lake.
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Prohibited Wheeled Devices. The use of skateboards, rollerblades, scooters and other similar devices is prohibited. |
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STOP THE SPREAD OF INVASIVE SPECIES. Remove plants, seeds, animals, and mud from boots, gear, pets, and vehicles. Clean your gear before entering and leaving the recreation site. Stay on designated roads and trails and follow local guidelines for firewood. CLEAN, DRAIN, DRY boats and any other recreational equipment that contacts water. Dispose of unwanted bait, worms, fish parts, or other organisms into the trash and not into the environment. For more information visit the National Invasive Species Information Center . |
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ATTENTION: If you plan on renting an RV or camping equipment and having it delivered to Rocky Mountain National Park, it is your responsibility to make sure that the individual or business that you are renting the equipment from has a valid permit to do business in the park. It is illegal to conduct business in a park area without a permit, contract, or other written agreement. Renting from a business or individual without a Commercial Use Authorization (CUA) with the park may leave you without accommodations as the RV/camping equipment may be turned away upon delivery. |
