Alvarado Campground

Campground neat and clean. Enjoyed visit and look forward to next visit. Host did not come and introduce himself. Sure do miss previous host, Steve Scarlotta.

Unfortunately, our experience wasn't the best. If you camp in a camper this campground is ideal with well placed bathrooms and utilities. Unfortunately my son and I are hammock and tent campers, and between the other campers filling their water at the spigot across from our site at 2300 and the wind gusts coming off the mountain, we only stayed a night. We found a disbursed camping site the next morning off Hermit Pass right on the water and stayed the rest of our planned trip there. Hope your trip to Alvarado is better, and support our state and national parks!

Campground is nice, good spacing and quiet. Camp host very friendly. The roads in the campground need some work. The trails (especially Venable trail) is badly in need of maintenance. Trees fallen everywhere, poor signage, washed-out and rocky. Forest service is not doing their jobs well on the trails.

Our campsite number 39 was situated on a hillside with not much area to set up a tent. I am not even sure how this is even a legit site?? I rated our stay good because we were able to move to an open site that was flat and a typical campsite. If we could not have moved I would have rated our stay poor. DO NOT rent campsite number 39!!!!

Such a beautiful campground with endless trails to hike directly from the campground. If you enjoy bird watching this is such a delightful place to go. We saw Western Tanagers and a female hummingbird bird sitting on her nest. There are several streams to enjoy. There is good cell phone coverage. Don’t miss stopping at Sugar and Spice Mountain (Mennonite) bakery in Westcliffe.

Very peaceful campground. Stunning views all around. Privacy as well. We had to move our tent to a flatter spot near our car because our site was on a hill but no complaints, everything was great! Would stay at the campground again.

We love camping at Alvarado campground. The only complaint is the speed in the campground, very very few people drive the speed limit causing lot of dust and hazardous conditions for the small children playing around the campground & using the bathrooms

came here for two nights to get away from the city. it rained every day, but we still had a great time. the host went above and beyond to make sure we were comfortable. all the other campers were respectful, and the grounds are well-appointed with restrooms, spigots (sign at the entrance says "don't drink the water" - not sure if that's a year-round thing, though), and trash receptacles. i was surprised that there did not seem to be food storage boxes at this campground. perhaps they will be added later, but for now, be aware you have to keep your food items in your car or hang them for bear safety.

Love the campground, but all the water spigots were off. They really should place a notification on their website so you know in advance.

Site 37 is quite literally the worst site in the campground. Uneven, overgrown, no real obvious place to put a tent, or anything else really. The parking for the site also leaves much to be desired for anything larger than a small SUV. This site either needs to be overhauled or removed. Luckily we were able to work with the camp host and find an open site that wasn't reserved for the time we were there. Otherwise, our time at the campsite was amazing. Will definitely make another trip here.