Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Crow Valley
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · CO · 40.64406, -104.33991
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Crow Valley · Pawnee National Grassland · CO
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 702.4 (Crow Valley Cg Group Sites), 20 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as crushed aggregate or gravel surface and maintenance level 4 – moderate degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 702.4 (Crow Valley Cg Group Sites), 20 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles Apr 15 – Nov 30. That season ends after Nov 30.
MVUM record for FR 702.4 (Crow Valley Cg Group Sites): “04/15-11/30” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
From the Forest Service's own Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW, Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026), straight-line from the pin to the nearest mapped segment. The nearest segment is not necessarily the way in, a maintenance level is the agency's class and not a report on today, and a road's season is the road's — it is not a campground order. What the levels mean → What an MVUM is →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Crow Valley
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4,827 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Crow ValleyNIFC · 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 Crow Valley · Pawnee National Grassland · CO
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater0 mi
- @Mail1 mi
- FFuel1 mi
- GGrocery17 mi
- MMechanic21 mi
- HHardware21 mi
- LLaundry22 mi
- ShShower22 mi
- +Urgent care22 mi
- DDump22 mi
- RxPharmacy25 mi
- EVEV fast charger27 mi
- AAir-up35 mi
- OOutfitter36 mi
- PPropane37 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 1 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 — Crow Valley
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
4,827 ft
Ground slope
1.4% · flat
State
CO
Coordinates
40.64406, -104.33991
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Crow Valley · Pawnee National Grassland · CO (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureCrow Creek · ~0.1 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Drinking waterWater · ~0.1 mi
- FuelFuel · ~1.0 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~22.3 mi
- GroceriesGrover Market Basket & Country Deli · ~16.6 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~25.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicKendra Beeners NP: Family Medicine · ~22.1 mi
- HardwareContinental Supply - Carquest Auto · ~21.1 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Crow Valley · Pawnee National Grassland · CO — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger27.3 mi straight-line SW — Regency Center Place of Greeley (Greeley, CO) · Electrify America · CCS · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 53 within 50 · 296 within 100 · 383 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)27.7 mi — Target - Tesla Supercharger, Greeley
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO27.6 mi — HION NETWORK GREELEY PL1, Greeley
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)21.8 mi — Jackson Lake State Park, Orchard, CO (at a public site) · RIVIAN_WAYPOINTS · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Country Inn & Suites Greeley, Greeley, 26.6 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily · AFDC lists it “$0.30 per kWh”
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- 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 279374 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Crow Valley · Pawnee National Grassland · CO — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletCrow Valley · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletCrow Valley · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletCrow Valley Ballfield · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletCrow Valley Bird Walk · at this camp · USFS
Coming out here — Crow Valley · Pawnee National Grassland · CO
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Crow Creek as an intermittent stream, ~0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as intermittent — expect it dry for part of the year. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 1.4% — flat. 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.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on it.
- 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 Crow Valley elsewhere
Other camps near Crow Valley
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Steward J. Adams Education Site~0.2 mi · fee
The unit that manages Crow Valley
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Crow Valley are set by Pawnee National Grassland, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Crow Valley
Source
U.S. Forest Service recreation data
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
Developed FEE campground (not free) - review | published 2026-08-01: fee campground, labelled as fee per policy (label, do not hide) | Fee 2026-08-22: $17 per single site per night and $25 per double site -- NOT $77. The $77 is the rate for a reserved group site (Lark, Plover or Hawk, 1-30 people), and the Forest Service recreation dataset wrongly carries that group figure as this record's single-site rate. Day use of the group picnic area is separate: $84 per day for 1-50 people, $169 for 51-100, $255 for 101-150 and $339 for 151-200. Interagency Senior and Access passes halve the basic campground fee. Two agency sources agree on $17/$25/$77: the campground page (updated Aug 11 2026) and the ARP campground status table (updated Aug 20 2026), which gives the season as May 1 to Nov 8. recreation.gov lists $25 standard and $77 group for May 1 to Nov 7 2026. Pawnee National Grassland. Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/arp/recreation/crow-valley-campground, https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/arp/conditions and https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/233845.
Nearest MVUM road
US Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW_MVUM_01, layer 1), Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026. Straight-line distance from the pin to the nearest mapped segment within 1 mi; surface type, maintenance level and open dates are the agency's own values for that segment, expanded from its codes and otherwise unedited. Nothing here says which road reaches the site.
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
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Crow Valley
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.
- Whether that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- Whether the site itself closes on its own schedule — only the road's season is on record
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- 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 — Crow Valley
What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Cold-weather camping →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →