Riverside (CO)

Great location and was a positive experience with two little ones and three pups. Really enjoyed the environment and especially the river.

Nice hillside with trees behind the site. Provides some shade when it's hot. Short walk across the street to the river.

Nice hillside with trees behind the site. Provides some shade when it's hot. Short walk across the street to the river.

Stayed in spot #5. Tent camping. Great little space, but a 50 yard hike to the car, including down some rough stairs built into a small gulley of sorts. Do not recommend this site if you have littles and if you don’t want to haul all of your food and utensils to the car each night to keep them away from bears. The river is right across the road, but it was too high and too fast for us to play in it much.

I have camped in 11 mi Canyon for five years now I really like Riverside this time not so much. This is the first time staying there that they had no water to be shared with the campers. I think this is wrong and really unacceptable. I was told that the water was for the camp host only, and that if I needed water, I could go down to Springer Gulch or one of the other camp grounds that have water. we’re paying $22 a night to camp on a piece of dirt with a vault toilet? Tell me how this makes sense. Further talking to the camp post, they said it would be impossible to keep water because everybody would be hoarding the water. My suggestion would be you have a piece of paper there with a pencil have a sign out front limited to five or 5 gallons per campsite per day, this way, everybody gets a chance of having some type of water I was also told that it is posted on the website that Riverside is a dry campground.(no water) I looked on website Recreation.gov and I don’t see it? You have roughly 18 campsites at $22 a night times seven days a week $2,772 total. How much money do you really need to make that you can’t supply water my rent is done just like any other government entity. Most likely nothing will be done about it. Thanks

Stayed in spot #5. Tent camping. Great little space, but a 50 yard hike to the car, including down some rough stairs built into a small gulley of sorts. Do not recommend this site if you have littles and if you don’t want to haul all of your food and utensils to the car each night to keep them away from bears. The river is right across the road, but it was too high and too fast for us to play in it much.

I have camped in 11 mi Canyon for five years now I really like Riverside this time not so much. This is the first time staying there that they had no water to be shared with the campers. I think this is wrong and really unacceptable. I was told that the water was for the camp host only, and that if I needed water, I could go down to Springer Gulch or one of the other camp grounds that have water. we’re paying $22 a night to camp on a piece of dirt with a vault toilet? Tell me how this makes sense. Further talking to the camp post, they said it would be impossible to keep water because everybody would be hoarding the water. My suggestion would be you have a piece of paper there with a pencil have a sign out front limited to five or 5 gallons per campsite per day, this way, everybody gets a chance of having some type of water I was also told that it is posted on the website that Riverside is a dry campground.(no water) I looked on website Recreation.gov and I don’t see it? You have roughly 18 campsites at $22 a night times seven days a week $2,772 total. How much money do you really need to make that you can’t supply water my rent is done just like any other government entity. Most likely nothing will be done about it. Thanks

The campgrounds are cute, however very small, little to no privacy available no matter what site you’re at. Thankfully the sites aren’t expensive because we left and went to a close by dispersed site we like. We were disappointed because we were looking forward to camping near the water. If you don’t mind sharing space while you camp, you won’t mind this but we wanted to get away, so it didn’t work for our needs.

The campgrounds are cute, however very small, little to no privacy available no matter what site you’re at. Thankfully the sites aren’t expensive because we left and went to a close by dispersed site we like. We were disappointed because we were looking forward to camping near the water. If you don’t mind sharing space while you camp, you won’t mind this but we wanted to get away, so it didn’t work for our needs.

Nice view of the river from this campsite. The major negative is that it is a walk in tent site and directly uphill. If you aren’t in good physical shape or can’t carry heavy camp gear 60yards uphill, this isn’t the site for you. High traffic area as far as the road goes and my glutes have not recovered from how many trips up and down hill it takes to set up camp or go to the bathroom. Bring a wagon!