Ironton Park Dispersed

Yeah, you can hear the road but all in all a nice spot. We camped one night in the aspen grove and the next night up the hill (cross the creek and keep going, cross another smaller creek or two.  I was there last Sept and will be there again in about a week.

Ironton is a very busy spot for those hiking, camping, fishing, etc. It’s right off the highway and be very busy! Despite being a little isolated. If you have nowhere else to go, here is a spot, however, you might be out of luck on finding a spot

There are spots by the main creek that runs along the highway and pass the first bit parking lot for the alpine loop. There are two awesome spots if you go left from the parking lot. Once you get to a creek, the spots are right next to it on opposite sides of the road.

Other than the lack of drinking water (for our preference) and road noise (nothing too bad) it’s a good spot. Plenty of space and there are fire rings built. Pretty good jump of spot for Ouray/Silverton.

Something we wished we had known is that you can cross the bridge, drive past the parking lot, and make the first left to find about 15 spots or you can not cross the bridge, head south onto a dirt road that follows the creek. We did not end up going down this road but there are a bunch of sites that you can see from the highway.

This is mostly private mining company property. The area and the creek are highly polluted from mining, the water and rocks in the creek are red for a reason, pollution!  

Horrible place to bring kids, as they will undoubtedly get in the polluted water.

We came in late and took the first spot on the creek. Beautiful view, right next to the creek. I'm sure there are more secluded spots down the trail Rd but this worked for us. There was some mild Rd noise but that's a given as we were right at the trailhead. In the morning they're were quite a few 4x4 coming through but at respectable time. I would stay here again.

Wonderful camping area we just happened upon. Quite a few trucks with ATV trailers parked at the entrance but didn’t hear them at night.

Roughly 5 pull through RV sites at the beginning of the road. The further you got the more dispersed and smaller sites got good for our RTT set up. River runs through part of the area and was really flowing due to recent rains. We arrived just before dark so didn’t get a chance to explore much. Very quite campground with dispersed sites nestled between aspens.

This is the best accidental campsite we've ever came across - would highly recommend! There are a good number of disbursed sites in the trees at the beginning of this atv trail that are nice enough on their own (just a bit busy), but we elected to drive up the road a bit and see if there would be some options with no one around (Tacoma TRD off-road, 6in lift). Boy did we hit gold! Perfect views over looking the mountains and we only ever even saw 2 ATVs go by on a Saturday night/Sunday morning. Then to top it all off, Ironton is a playground. There are ghost towns to explore all over and a ton of off road trails.