Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Hahns Peak Lake
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · CO · 40.83950, -106.99669
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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 — Hahns Peak Lake · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · CO
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 486.1 (Hahns Peak Lake Cg), 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 486.1 (Hahns Peak Lake Cg), 20 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles Jun 15 – Dec 1. That season ends after Dec 1.
MVUM record for FR 486.1 (Hahns Peak Lake Cg): “06/15-12/01” 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 Hahns Peak Lake
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 8,419 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Hahns Peak LakeNIFC · 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 Hahns Peak Lake · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · CO
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- GGrocery2 mi
- DDump2 mi
- WWater3 mi
- LLaundry3 mi
- ShShower3 mi
- @Mail10 mi
- FFuel24 mi
- HHardware24 mi
- RxPharmacy26 mi
- EVEV fast charger26 mi
- OOutfitter26 mi
- +Urgent care27 mi
- MMechanic28 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 2 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Propane. Plan those before you head up.
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 — Hahns Peak Lake
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
8,419 ft
Ground slope
4.1% · gentle
State
CO
Coordinates
40.83950, -106.99669
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Hahns Peak Lake · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · CO (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureHahns Peak Lake · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Drinking waterWater · ~2.6 mi
- FuelMaverik · ~24.4 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~2.4 mi
- GroceriesColumbine General Store · ~1.9 mi
- PharmacyLyon Drug · ~25.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicUCHealth Urgent Care · ~27.4 mi
- HardwareACE Hardware · ~24.4 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Hahns Peak Lake · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · CO — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger25.8 mi straight-line S — 910 Yampa St, Steamboat Springs, CO · LOOP · CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-07-15 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 7 within 50 · 66 within 100 · 381 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)36.2 mi — Craig, CO - Tesla Supercharger, Craig
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO27.2 mi — MAVERIK SB SPRINGS PL1, Steamboat Springs
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)3.2 mi — Steamboat Lake State Park, Steamboat Springs, 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
- Pricing at the fast charger$35 monthly service fee; $0.48 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 453140 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Hahns Peak Lake · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · CO — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletHahns Peak Lake · at this camp · USFS
- RestroomHahns Peak Lake · at this camp · USFS
- RestroomHahns Peak Lake Eastside · ~0.7 mi SE · USFS
- RestroomColumbine · ~2.5 mi NE · USFS
Coming out here — Hahns Peak Lake · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · CO
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Hahns Peak Lake as a perennial lake or pond, ~0.1 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 4.1% — 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.
- 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 Hahns Peak Lake elsewhere
Other camps near Hahns Peak Lake
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Hinman Park~10.6 mi · fee
- Seedhouse~12.6 mi · fee
- Seedhouse~12.8 mi · fee
- Hog Park Cg~14.7 mi · fee
The unit that manages Hahns Peak Lake
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Hahns Peak Lake are set by Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Elk River at 8,710 ft, about 2 miles away. It sits about 291 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 — Hahns Peak Lake
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 | auto:usfs-fee 2026-08-20: US Forest Service developed campground, agency coordinates, agency states a fee. No dollar amount in the agency record -- expect a charge and confirm the current rate before you go. Not field-verified. | Fee 2026-08-21: $26 per night, single site. Exact change or a check if paying cash at the campground -- no credit cards are accepted on site unless you reserved on recreation.gov first. Caveat: the recreation.gov rates feed for this campground shows $52 per night, but it shows that identical $52 for every season from 2020 through 2028 without ever changing, which does not read as a live 2026 price; the forest page (updated Jun 3 2026, flagged Site Open) is the better source. Budget $26 and be ready for $52. Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/mbrtb/recreation/hahns-peak-lake-campground and https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/231863.
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 Hahns Peak Lake
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 — Hahns Peak Lake
When the high country opens →Winter vs summer roads →Camping near a reservoir →Dispersed camping tips →All field notes →