Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Allenspark Dispersed Camping
Drive-up · public land · CO · 40.25454, -105.40848
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Ask about this camp →A mapped lead, not an agency listing. Somebody marked this as a campsite; we could not match it to a land-manager record. Worth checking rather than counting on. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Allenspark Dispersed Camping
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 7,476 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Allenspark Dispersed CampingNIFC · AirNow
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Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Allenspark Dispersed Camping · Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests · CO
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- GGrocery7 mi
- LLaundry7 mi
- ShShower7 mi
- WWater7 mi
- FFuel7 mi
- DDump7 mi
- +Urgent care8 mi
- @Mail8 mi
- OOutfitter8 mi
- EVEV fast charger8 mi
- HHardware8 mi
- MMechanic10 mi
- RxPharmacy10 mi
- PPropane17 mi
- AAir-up20 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 7 mi out.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Allenspark Dispersed Camping
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
7,476 ft
Ground slope
5.5% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~7.3 mi · industrial lead
State
CO
Coordinates
40.25454, -105.40848
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Allenspark Dispersed Camping · Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests · CO (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureWest Fork Little Thompson River · ~0.6 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townBig Elk Meadows · ~1.3 mi
- Nearest rail line~7.3 mi · industrial lead
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~6.8 mi
- FuelFerncliff Food & Fuel · ~7.0 mi
- Propane / LPGAmeriGas · ~22.1 mi
- Dump station~7.4 mi
- GroceriesMeeker Park Lodge Store · ~6.6 mi
- PharmacyRocky Mountain Pharmacy · ~10.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicLyons Health and Wellness · ~7.5 mi
- HardwareHardware · ~8.5 mi
EV charging — from Allenspark Dispersed Camping · Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests · CO — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger7.7 mi straight-line E — Sandstone Park, Lyons, CO (at a park) · JULE · CHAdeMO, CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 6 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-02-13 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach52 within 25 mi · 236 within 50 · 349 within 100 · 431 within 150
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)7.6 mi — SVVSD LYONS ES · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Pricing at the fast charger$0.50 per kWh (as listed by AFDC)
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 449668 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Allenspark Dispersed Camping · Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests · CO — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletLion Gulch · ~4.2 mi N · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSouth St. Vrain No. 6 · ~6.1 mi S · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletMeeker Park · ~6.6 mi W · USFS
- Portable toiletMeeker Park · ~6.7 mi W · USFS
Coming out here — Allenspark Dispersed Camping · Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests · CO
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps West Fork Little Thompson River as a perennial river, ~0.6 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 5.5% — gentle. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (1 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- Rail line mapped ~7.3 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as an industrial lead. No track the atlas classes as a main line is mapped within 10 mi. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in it.
- Assume no services at all. Most dispersed camping in a national forest has none: no tap, no power, no dump, often no toilet. Everything you need, you bring.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
Open Allenspark Dispersed Camping elsewhere
Other camps near Allenspark Dispersed Camping
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Meeker Park~6.7 mi · fee
- Olive Ridge Campground~6.8 mi · fee
- Pole Hill Road Dispersed Camping~7.8 mi
- Allenspark Dispersed Camping~8.2 mi
The unit that manages Allenspark Dispersed Camping
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Allenspark Dispersed Camping are set by Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Copeland Lake at 8,570 ft, about 9 miles away. It sits about 1,094 ft higher than this camp, so treat it as a guide rather than a reading for this spot. We do not repeat a depth here, because any number we stored would be stale by the time you read it — the station publishes today's.
How we know this — Allenspark Dispersed Camping
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
How it was placed
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
Contributed, not agency-listed. A mapper marked this as a campsite. We have not matched it to a land-manager record, so it stays at Likely.
What we don’t know about Allenspark Dispersed Camping
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Allenspark Dispersed Camping
Winter vs summer roads →Finding water out here →Reading a forest MVUM →How to read this page →All field notes →