Camp ObserverCimarron Campground (CO)
Camp site features
Across 22 camp sites:
- Pets allowed: 1 of 22 sites
- Largest party: 8 people
Fees
All campsites at Cimarron Campground are first-come, first-served. This campground uses Scan & Pay to accept on-site payment through the Recreation.gov mobile app. Download the app ahead of your visit to arrive ready!
Directions
Cimarron Campground is located 20 miles (32 km) east of Montrose between mile markers 112 and 113 on U.S. Highway 50, at the site of a historic narrow gauge railroad town.
Stay Limit
Check in from 1 PM, check out by 1 PM.
Reviews
Greg Q
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Reviewed a month ago
Cimarron is a very nice campground, near the highway but quiet, It was uncrowded in early September, even on the weekend, with only 6 of 24 cites occupied. There is a small store and gas station next door. The campground has adequate shade. The bathrooms were closed but next door at the visitor center there are nice bathrooms with flush toilets. It is located only 10 miles from Black Canyon NP and about 20 from Curecanti NRA.
Now the bad stuff, choose your site very carefully based on the lay of the land, and I suggest staying away from site 18. The second week of September I had multiple thunderstorms come through with heavy rains. A river of thick, slippery, adobe mud came right through my site (18), surrounding my truck and trailer, I am very glad i was not in a tent. I drove around and some some sites were fine, mine seemed to get the worst of it. Luckily I knew rain was a possibility and had put away all chairs, solar panels, etc.
Gianni C
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Reviewed 4 months ago
There was basically no one else here on a Friday night in July! Site is near the highway so you hear some traffic noise, but not too bad. Biggest inconvenience is the bathrooms all being closed, so you have to take a short drive to the Mesa Creek trailhead to use the pit toilet there.
Ron A
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Reviewed 5 months ago
Good quiet campground. Toilet facilities weren’t working. Needs mowing
Michael P
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Reviewed 6 months ago
Quiet small park nice that it had flushing toliets
Kenneth B
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Reviewed a year ago
Our second stay here in a few years, a nice overnight visit next to the canyon and historic railroad stock loading displays. The sites are basic but have some privacy from each other. We were car camping in a tent. The restrooms were temporarily out of service for upgrades but the ones at the visitor building were clean and just a short walk away. There were only a few others staying at the campground. The highway is close by but traffic dies down after dark and the night was quiet. There was no cell service but Starlink satellite solved that.
I was glad to read later that the nearby Rio Grande train display that had suffered winter rockfall damage was removed from the bridge for repairs and future plans are for a more protected location.
Lynn T
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Reviewed a year ago
Quiet place to stop for the night. There was some road noise but to be expected as this is right off the highway. Sites were clean and we noticed the sheriff patrolling so we felt safe.
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