Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Teal Lake
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · CO · 40.58509, -106.60711
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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 — Teal Lake · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · CO
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 615.1D (Teal Lake Campground), 40 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 615.1D (Teal Lake Campground), 40 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 615.1D (Teal Lake Campground): “01/01-12/31” 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 Teal Lake
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 8,831 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Teal 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 Teal 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
- WWater11 mi
- @Mail14 mi
- FFuel14 mi
- GGrocery14 mi
- RxPharmacy14 mi
- OOutfitter14 mi
- ShShower14 mi
- EVEV fast charger14 mi
- +Urgent care14 mi
- HHardware14 mi
- LLaundry14 mi
- MMechanic20 mi
- DDump20 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 14 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 — Teal Lake
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
8,831 ft
Ground slope
8.6% · noticeable
State
CO
Coordinates
40.58509, -106.60711
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Teal Lake · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · CO (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureTeal Lake · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townSteamboat Springs · ~13.6 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelSpace Station · ~13.7 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~20.1 mi
- GroceriesNatural Grocers · ~13.7 mi
- PharmacyLyon Drug · ~13.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicUCHealth Urgent Care · ~14.2 mi
- HardwareACE Hardware · ~14.4 mi
EV charging — from Teal Lake · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · CO — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger13.9 mi straight-line SW — 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 reach3 within 25 mi · 12 within 50 · 215 within 100 · 407 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)38.1 mi — Kremmling, CO - Park Avenue - Tesla Supercharger, Kremmling
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO14.1 mi — MAVERIK SB SPRINGS PL1, Steamboat Springs
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)13.4 mi — STEAMBOAT SPR SKI TIME 1, Steamboat Springs, CO · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port 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 Teal Lake · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · CO — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletTeal Lake · at this camp · USFS
- RestroomNewcomb Creek · ~1.0 mi N · USFS
- RestroomGrizzly · ~1.7 mi N · USFS
- RestroomGrizzly Guard Station · ~2.0 mi S · USFS
Coming out here — Teal Lake · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · CO
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Teal 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 8.6% — noticeable. 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 Teal Lake elsewhere
Other camps near Teal Lake
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Summit Lake~4.8 mi · fee
- Hidden Lakes~5.4 mi · fee
- Granite Campground~7.6 mi · fee
- Routt County~8.2 mi
The unit that manages Teal Lake
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Teal 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 Tower at 10,610 ft, about 5 miles away. It sits about 1,779 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 — Teal 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 2026-08-27: $20 per night for a single site, and $40 per night for the group site, which the forest caps at 21 people. Exact cash or check only, payment instructions on the kiosk. Read the sourcing carefully here: the $20 single-site rate comes from the forest page alone (updated Aug 20 2025). The recreation.gov listing in the agency record, facility 232425, is 'TEAL LAKE GROUP CAMPSITE' -- the GROUP booking, not the single sites -- and its $40 group rate agrees with the forest page, so it corroborates the $40 but is not a second source for the $20. Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/mbrtb/recreation/teal-lake-campground and https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/232425.
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 Teal 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 — Teal Lake
When the high country opens →Winter vs summer roads →Camping near a reservoir →Power off-grid →All field notes →