Ouray RV Park & Cabins

This is a great location. It is a large gravel parking lot but the spots are laid out well and are not too close together and relatively level.

The check-in staff was excellent and they take you to your spot.

It is on the Ouray river, which is nice. The river is a constant yellow color due to the minerals in the water, so not your typical pretty river, but is still unique.

Overall, we would stay there again if in Ouray.

One note, the road from Durango to Ouray is a little challenging. I would definitely NOT recommend it for novice RVers. We had no issue with our F250 diesel and 39 ft fifth wheel. However, we spoke to a few people both in Durango and Ouray who cooked brakes. We took our time, and pulled over as needed to let others pass. It is a gorgeous drive!

Not a bad RV park, just a few issues not expecting during the July 4th holiday.

Friendly staff, fairly close to town (nice walk along river and then cut through the park), all fresh gravel (fairly flat) and only a few bugs. Of course, great scenery with the mountains, but only a few trees in the park for shade. If you book a circle site, #19 and 20 have some shade. Very close parking unless you pay for the premium sites along the berm side near the river. Be sure to bring extra sewer hose because the dump connection is far up front. Wish we knew that.

We had to book a year in advance to stay over the 4th and the minimum stay was 1 week. After talking with neighbors, found they were able to book only a few months to weeks before and could stay for just 3 or 4 days.

The WIFI is free but very slow and intermittent, almost unusable at night (125 to 250MB/s). There is no OTA TV except for a PBS station, so you better have a Dish or bring movies. AT&T was at 3 bars.
Laundry is not free. $4.75 a load and $.25/5 min for dryer. Need exact change or crisp bills.

The road (550) is right next to the park and quite noisy during day and occasionally at night.
Speaking of noise, I suggest NOT coming during the July 4th weekend. Why? Because there is a crazy person who fires off a real canon right next to the park at odd hours through the entire weekend! Even during the night like at 2 AM! You can even smell the gunpowder it's that close! He's been doing every year and it's a tradition that probably won't stop any time soon.
You might be better off at the RV park in town which is further away.

Any other time of year, this park may be fine for most people, as Full-hookup RV camping is scarce in Ouray and there's none in Telluride.

We stayed for a week, this was a great home base. Short easy walk to town. Bathrooms and showers were awesome and the little restaurant was good. If your looking for something with full hookups and close to town this is a great option. The only downside was the river front spaces do not have real views of the river and your the sites are close together. Great for big rigs as the camping area is wide open. There are also really cute little cabins for additional room for family and friends.

As noted by many others, this is just a gravel lot that is on the North edge of the town proper. Good power, high water pressure, level site and decent campground WiFi service. No response to phone calls, text messages, etc. Power outage during our stay, no follow-through from the campground staff. Cafe on site for breakfast (tip: order online early!)

The town is beautiful the views are spectacular…I guess you are supposed to always look up so you don’t notice you are staying in a gravel pit. Yes, the staff is great and when that is the first line of a review I know there are other issues. The other campground in town J+1+1 I think has grass and trees and is “in” town walkable from the campground. We stayed the Ouray RV Park & Cabins as we were meeting others here.

If you are going to landscape your ENTIRE park with grey gravel check out some desert RV parks they know how to make things appealing. For goodness sake the entire valley is littered with multi colored rocks but they must have hired a road contractor to do the place. Heck there were piles of gravel in the park just in case they wanted to do some more “landscaping’.

Not a stitch of shade other then the power poles and lines going through camp. The riverwalk that loops the river is again graded dirt with huge rocks. I’m not slouch but walking this 1.9 mile loop you must wear high top boots or you might twist an ankle.

For the price you pay, the owners should trying a little at least to provide some shade, some grass SOME visual beauty! Right now it looks like a location money grab to me.

Anyone who thinks this place is the best must like Walmart parking lots. Seriously…

We were only here for one night but would definitely stay here again!

They have a large facility with RV sites, look liked some small cabins to rent, restaurant, laundry mat and probably some other things we didn’t get a chance to see. Also had propane fill-up on site. It is conveniently located along the river north of town. The river has a walking trail which leads to the hot springs and town.

The hosts were super nice and easy to communicate with. They text you all the information after you make your reservation which was super helpful. The location is super clean and well maintained.