FS · Rio Grande National Forest
Upper Crossing Guard Station
No lengths published for any site here
- Longest for your rig
- —
- Booking
- Reservable
- Hookups
- none
- Entry
- Back-in only
- ADA sites
- 1
- Elevation
- 8,421 ft
- Vehicles
- up to 5
At 8,421 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
The brief dirt road leading to the cabin is actually the old stagecoach route, complete with historic graffiti that served as billboards advertising goods and services at the stagecoach stops.
quoted from the description
Every bookable site
Length never published — 1 site
Within 60 miles
| Map marker# | Campground | Distance | Sites | Longest for your rig | Hookups |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carnero Guard Station | 11 mi S | 1 | 40 ft | none |
| 2 | Stone Cellar Guard Station | 15 mi SW | 1 | — | none |
| 3 | Brewery Creek Guard Station | 19 mi NE | 1 | 25 ft | none · pull-through |
| 4 | Penitente Canyon Campground | 23 mi SE | 17 | 25 ft | none |
| 5 | Ohaver Lake | 26 mi NE | 32 | — | none · pull-through |
| 6 | Snowblind | 27 mi N | 1 | — | none |
Everything else on record
- Bookable sites
- 1
- Max occupancy per site
- 9
- Reservable sites
- 1
- Coordinates
- 38.1389, -106.4561
- Nearest place
- Saguache
- Phone
- 719-655-2547
- Elevation
- 8,421 ft
Sources
- Recreation Information Database (RIDB) · fetched from
https://ridb.recreation.gov/api/v1/facilities/234660· 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