FS · Arapaho & Roosevelt National Forests Pawnee NG
Mestaa’ėhehe Mountain Fire Lookout
No lengths published for any site here
- Longest for your rig
- —
- Booking
- Reservable
- Hookups
- none
- Entry
- Back-in only
- ADA sites
- —
- Elevation
- 11,445 ft
- Vehicles
- up to 2
At 11,445 ft, expect nights below freezing well into June, water systems shut off outside a short summer window, and a long climb to get here. Nothing published says when it opens — call before you tow.
Book on Recreation.gov →the official reservation system; we take no cut
Getting there
What the agency says about the road in. For a long rig this is often the binding constraint — a site that fits is no use behind four miles of shelf road — and none of it appears in the campsite data.
- Unpaved approach
Turn right onto Forest Road 192.1, a dirt road and continue for one mile where you will come to parking area before a locked gate.
quoted from the driving directions
Every bookable site
Tents only — no rig permitted here — 1 site
Within 60 miles
| Map marker# | Campground | Distance | Sites | Longest for your rig | Hookups |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Echo Lake | 6 mi W | 17 | 55 ft | none · pull-through |
| 2 | West Chicago Creek | 9 mi W | 14 | 40 ft | none |
| 3 | Columbine Campground | 10 mi N | 46 | 55 ft | none |
| 4 | Cold Springs - Arapaho Roosevelt NF (CO) | 11 mi N | 40 | 45 ft | none · pull-through |
| 5 | Pickle Gulch | 11 mi N | 6 | — | none |
| 6 | Meridian Campground | 12 mi S | 1 | — | none |
Everything else on record
- Bookable sites
- 1
- Longest driveway
- 20 ft
- Max occupancy per site
- 4
- Reservable sites
- 1
- Coordinates
- 39.6789, -105.4928
- Nearest place
- Idaho Springs
- Phone
- 303-567-4382
- Elevation
- 11,445 ft
Sources
- Recreation Information Database (RIDB) · fetched from
https://ridb.recreation.gov/api/v1/facilities/234792· retrieved 2026-08-11 · public-domain - USGS Elevation Point Query Service · fetched from
https://epqs.nationalmap.gov/v1/json· retrieved 2026-08-11 · public-domain