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2026 Season availability
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Reviews (31)
What Guests Are Saying
Transfer Campground offers a beautiful setting with friendly and helpful hosts, making for a pleasant camping experience. Visitors appreciate the cleanliness and maintenance of the grounds, along with well-kept bathrooms and stunning scenery. However, some minor downsides include a busy nearby road, limited shade, and the absence of trash service, which require some planning for future visits.
What Guests Are Saying
Transfer Campground offers a beautiful setting with friendly and helpful hosts, making for a pleasant camping experience. Visitors appreciate the cleanliness and maintenance of the grounds, along with well-kept bathrooms and stunning scenery. However, some minor downsides include a busy nearby road, limited shade, and the absence of trash service, which require some planning for future visits.
Review Summary
Donnivon H
VerifiedJuly 27, 2022 • Stayed at: 001, Loop: Transfer
The camp host, Dan, was excellent. He met us as soon as we were pulling up and gave us all the information we could need. He even had hand drawn maps for some of the bike trails if we wanted to do them.
The directions need to be updated on the app and was difficult to find proper direction but once we had them it was a nice long gravel drive with an amazing scenic view right before the campground.
Willow O
VerifiedJuly 26, 2022 • Stayed at: 007, Loop: Transfer
Beautiful site in a cute campground near a number of trailheads. Camp host was knowledgeable and made us feel right at home!
Richard E
VerifiedJuly 9, 2022 • Stayed at: 011, Loop: Transfer
Incredibly clean, bathrooms were spotless . Dan the host is incredible. By the way the campsites, views, hiking, are spectacular. A+
James P
VerifiedSeptember 13, 2021 • Stayed at: H03, Loop: Equestrian
Dan is an AMAZING host! The campsites are impeccably clean. He has successfully balanced his hospitality with allowing us privacy. The campground is beautiful and the area is wonderfully relaxing. The bathrooms were clean and fresh- it was hard to believe they were pit toilets and used so frequently.
My only frustration is with the fire rings in the main campground- they are too tall which means a larger fire needs to be built to enjoy it. This seems to contradict the idea of making them safer by preventing sparks. Also, the air holes are halfway up the fire ring instead of down at the base. Fires need oxygen.
James P
VerifiedSeptember 13, 2021 • Stayed at: 006, Loop: Transfer
Dan VandenBerg is an amazing host. the campground was super clean and quiet.
Joel W
VerifiedAugust 14, 2021 • Stayed at: H03, Loop: Equestrian
The camp was great. It was near many varied riding opportunities. Dan, the camp host, was very helpful in every way. I didn't rate five stars due to no natural water nearby.
ELLEN P
VerifiedAugust 7, 2021 • Stayed at: 007, Loop: Transfer
Lovely campground in pristine, healthy forest. Clean restrooms, fresh water, beauty galore! Tent platform worked great during the raging storm we experienced, allowing the rain to run somewhere else. Also, campground is only ten miles from Mancos, on a pretty well maintained road, so stocking up on supplies was easy. Several nice hiking trails right out of the campground. Only downside is the occasional ATV noise. They aren't allowed in the campground we stayed in, but have their own campground nearby. Hate those things. Wish they were prohibited from public lands.
Jim W
VerifiedAugust 5, 2021 • Stayed at: 011, Loop: Transfer
Our host Dan was great! Really cared about the campers & if they needed anything, stopped by each day to check on us. Had two intense storms with heavy lightning, he went out in them making sure we were alright & sharing information about lightning & safety. Campground & bathrooms were clean and well kept. All of this and in a setting right in the aspen, beautiful.
Dianne S
VerifiedJuly 23, 2021 • Stayed at: 006, Loop: Transfer
Dan was the best camp-host ever, he stopped by and said hi, answered any questions, made sure we had everything we needed and even helped remove little stumps so we don't trip, available for questions and made suggestions on items to see. Amazing campgrounds, no garbage removal you need to pack it out.
John C
VerifiedJuly 17, 2021 • Stayed at: 011, Loop: Transfer
The camp host, Dan was awesome. Cows came into the camp ground due to a breach in the fencing. They were pretty annoying for a couple of days.
Location & Directions for Transfer Campground
17541 Fs 565, Mancos, CO 81328 United States
Elevation: 2,720 ft
Getting There
<p>From Mancos, CO: travel 1/4 mi north on Hwy 184, turn right on West Mancos Road (Forest Road 561) and travel 10.5 mi to the campground. Most of the road is unpaved, but has a good gravel surface. PLEASE NOTE that the Horse Sites are located b...
From Mancos, CO: travel 1/4 mi north on Hwy 184, turn right on West Mancos Road (Forest Road 561) and travel 10.5 mi to the campground. Most of the road is unpaved, but has a good gravel surface. PLEASE NOTE that the Horse Sites are located before reaching the campground on the opposite side of the road off FSR 561, a totally separate area.
Highway access
Transfer Campground is accessible via Hwy 184, which connects to US Highway 160 approximately 15 miles to the south.
Policies & Rules
General
- The extended summer season will continue starting 9/28 through 10/19/2025, FCFS only campsites. No Water will be available during this time. Please plan accordingly. Restrooms will still be available. No trash service. "Pack It in - Pack It Out". Group campsite is not open during this time.
- Although livestock is not allowed in the main campground, there are campsites for stock users OUTSIDE the main campground ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE of Forest Rd. 561, with H01, H02, H03 & H04 sites adjacent to a corral. PLEASE NOTE that the Horse Sites are located before reaching the campground on the opposite side of the road off FSR 561, a totally separate area.
- Click here for more information on the San Juan National Forest
- Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing organisms by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
- First come first serve sites available
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