Carpios Ridge Campground

Great job Colorado. We've been full time rvers for 5years and we have to say, this was the cleanest campsite, big rv site with a tent pad at each site and electric. The grounds are well equipped and maintained, the bathrooms are very clean and they even have a laundry room at a State park. Good cell phone service and the park rangers are good people, we'll diffenity be back.

We expected to stay only 1 night as enroute stop, but when the following day was 60s and sunny, we grabbed another night and thoroughly enjoyed our stay. Syndney in the visitor center made it all happen and was very kind and helpful from the start and with other campers as well.
All sites are decent, but for the few of us that we’re staying in the Park in early March, it seemed Sites 45-50 with overlook were the highest in the demand. Showers had recently been turned on and were warm.

Arrived on a Sunday so front office was close, hookups was already unlocked and ready for setup when I arrived. The grounds are definitely taken care of by the park! If you have dogs watch out for sticky birds which is pretty much throughout the whole park. The only downside to the park is you have to pay for EVERYTHING! Expect the toilets and dump station. For a total of $36 a night plus $9 parking even if you have a camping reservation for the park your staying in. The views were definitely worth a night stay over!

I have a 44’ 5th wheel with truck 63’. Staying at site #104 all larger sites in South were taken so I drove around to see where I would fit without my rig. I am parked at an angle so my rig fit just fine with the truck and side x side next to it. No riding in park. Also I am in a 30’ site.
Dirt road in my campground. The sites all have a shelter with a table fire ring and charcoal grill over looking the lake.

Arrival - Fine with online booking.

Tips - For rigs greater than 42', find another site then site 12. Get your water on the way in to your site.

Favorite - Scenery

Negatives - Site 12 is supposed to be big rig friendly but, it's not; steep at the nose with a wicked left hand turn required to get out of the site. We have a 45' 5ver and had a devil of a time getting level. When we tried to depart, there was a car in the site directly across from us requiring a very sharp left hand turn to get out. That would have been fine if there wasn't a drainage culvert and boulders at the exit, bent a stabilizer and part of the rear bike rack.

We stayed here in 2016 and have been looking forward to returning ever since. Sadly this time we had brutal high winds and smoke from New Mexico fire for the first couple days. But when the smoke cleared our lake view site was all I was hoping for!! The lake is low (like every body of water in the west now) but still lovely with deep green forest all around.
50 amp electric only. Water available in the campground and clean and easily accessed dump at the entrance. Friendly and efficient check-in by masked (thank-you) staff. Good signage for finding site. Interior road is a little narrow for easy back-in by bigger rigs, but we were in in one try. Adequate asphalt parking for 35' MH and Jeep. Quiet and dark at night. Sites are mostly spacious, ours was especially large with nice picnic table, clean fire pit with grill, and gravel tent square.

We looked all over south Colorado for camp spots in mid March, but to our surprise this isn't really a thing. Most places don't open until April at the earliest. This place was open, and really well taken care of. Our camp site had an amazing view overlooking the lake from about 200' above the water level. There are some well maintained walking trails around the park, and fishing sports. Showers, and laundry available for a small fee. We also had to pay a $9 day pass fee for the state park.