Best Glamping near Nucla, CO

Favorite spot to go glamping. Pay showers (4 mins for 4 quarters) and there is power at the campsite. The hosts are always nice and other campers have been polite about quiet time etc...it's only a 22 min drive to the newly renovated hot springs pool. It's very hot during the day, but cools off at night. The beach is great if you can get a grassy area to put towels down. Love going here for a clean camping experience.

In addition to plenty of tent and RV sites, Ridgeway SP also has three heated and furnished yurts for those seeking an enhanced comfort level. Each unit includes a fridge, futon type beds, dinner table and chairs. Bring your fishing poles, hiking shoes, water craft and dogs, cause they're all allowed.

Beautiful views of the mountains and a 5-mile long reservoir make this campground pretty spectacular. You can even rent one of the 3 yurts if you like. You are also only about 10 minutes from the Orvis Hot Springs and a great BBQ place called Welded Elephant BBQ Shack.

Ridgway State Park was a convenient location for my trip through Colorado to Utah. After a stop at Black Canyon of the Gunnison Ridgway was a great spot to stop for an overnight out of any city. At the Dakota Terraces there are only a handful of spots for tents so if you know you are going to camp here make a reservation. This was a last minute stop on our trip and I snagged the last tent spot in the campground. They have full facilities and even a few Yurts you can rent for larger parties that looked like fun. Didn't stay long because we were only looking for a spot for the night. The only downfall is that the site were very close together and this is more of an RV Campground.

Nice campground with spacious sites. Concrete pads under the picnic table and fire pits. Water access nearby. Bathrooms were super clean and the showers were nice and hot. Laundry facilities available. We stayed on D-183 and had a nice view of the mountains and the lake. Definitely one of the best state park campgrounds in Colorado.

We tent camped here on an amazing tent deck.  Our first experience with this!  We love this part of Colorado.  So many beautiful sites to see and things to do.  We have family to visit here, as well.

Stayed here in the month of August when you have to watch for those pesky but awesome thunderstorms.  

Well maintained campground with clean facilities.  We'll definitely be back!

I've. been visiting this area of Colorado since childhood so it has special meaning for me. We remember the area BEFORE there was a reservoir!  This campground doesn't disappoint!  Our site had a view of Courthouse Peak.  The area feels natural and sites are spaced out. We had water and electric.  There's a dump station on site.

We only had one night here, it was the last night of the season for our area and the next nights were full.

Popular campground likely requires advance reservations for peak season.

My wife and I stayed here in March of 2022. The campground was awesome and there didn’t seem to be a bad spot in the entire loop. Good views of the San Juan Mountains to the south! Power hook-ups were nice, but no water hook-ups during “winter” months. With that said, there was community spigots located near the campsites that were still on if you need to top off your fresh water tanks. The dump station was also nice, but no running water there during the winter either.

The location of this place was perfect for us as we were there for skiing; One hour from Telluride, one hour from Silverton, and only 30 minutes from the Red Mountain backcountry skiing area.

Ridgway Colorado is only a few miles down the road if you need gas or supplies, and Ouray is just past that if you’re looking for great restaurants and breweries.

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I was a little disappointed by how low the reservoir was, compared to the photos when I made the reservation, but considering how dry things have been, I can't really get mad. The campground itself is huge, and absolutely gorgeous. I rented a group site and was happy to see how clean it was, and the double bathrooms were very clean. Fire pits were available for each individual spot, but there was also a huge communal fire pit, plus two flat fire platforms so you good get your grill on, as well as several long picnic benches. We managed to get into the water and have fun. It was a fair bit mucky by the waters edge but that's to be expected when it's so low. It never really good too deep. One of our party managed to walk across to the other side and the water level only got to maybe chest high. This is absolutely a place I would visit again. The tall trees, the fresh air, wonderful scenery, is worth it.

We went to Buckeye with six families and somewhere between 10 and 12 kids(The oldest being Nine years old) to celebrate one of the kiddo's 7th birthday. We camped at the group site, which was a big enough place for all of us. We had a mix of camp setups- including a Class B RV, a pop, a hybrid travel trailer, and three or four tents. There was a large common area with plenty of built-in picnic tables and a very large fire pit. All for only$50 a night! The lake was beautiful, and we fished, Sup’d, and swam in the refreshingly cold water. 

There are some monster Rainbow Trout in the lake, and we had fun catching a few with the kids on fly rods, but there were a lot of other campers having good luck with spinner rods. The area also has a good mountain bike trail that us adults enjoyed. The Mtn bike ride starts and ends from the campground, taking you across the border into Utah and then swings back towards CO on a ridge that offers an incredible panorama of the lake and red rock cliffs. The trail is primarily double-track, and we bumped into a few ATVs along the way. 

Overall, if you’re going with a large group, you 100% should book the group site, which is also separated from all the other single campsites. 

We’ll be back! Buckeye is about a 2.5-hour drive from Telluride, where our group lives, and a 1.5-hour drive from Moab, UT.

Lastly, if you're looking to stay connected, there is no cell service or wifi(I have Verizon), although when we rode our bikes to the top of the ridge, I got two bars. You can also drive to the top of the hill in an offroad-capable vehicle if you need to make a call.

So Buckeye has a few spots to camp. There is the reservable set of sites just after the picnic area, then the group area and if you drive past the group area you can get to an area of dispersed camping. The dispersed is free, has a fire pit and a spot to park. There are trees all around and the views are much better in the dispersed area. You get a great look at the mountains that are on the other side. The Utah boarder is with in walking distance, and is barely marked, that was kind of funny.

So, if you pay to camp it's $10 a night. They have picnic tables, the free sites do not have picnic tables. However, there are two vault toilets over in the dispersed area and when we got there they were incredibly clean, well stocked and had air fresheners to keep smells down. The sites aren't all very level but were still suitable for our needs and many others needs. Almost all the dispersed sites were taken by the end of the night. In fact a group of 12-15 bicycle tourists came in and set up camp. They really spread out in the two sites that were available next to us. Unfortunately they were a bit loud, walked around in towels and made the restroom disgusting.  So much so we walked to the farther restroom for the rest of our stay. That was unfortunate. 

It was incredibly windy while we were there the first day. So much so we walked in to the woods to get out of the wind. The sun was quite warm but the wind made it cold. The second the sun went down the temps dropped drastically! We sat by the fire for a bit and then headed to our tent for the night. It got insanely cold overnight and really made us cut our stay short. We really couldn't imagine another night in the cold. There wasn't any snow but it was cold. By morning the wind had stopped all together and the lake was just glass. Made for some great photos. 

This lake was almost completely empty last year with the drought. This year though, with all the snow there is plenty of water, if not too much. It looked flooded in places. We are not sure about fish but we could see something jumping so there is hope that some fish survived the drought and maybe they will stock it. It looked like it would be fun to take a canoe out and fish. The cyclists bathed in the lake when they came in and our dog loved swimming in it. It was his first experience swimming. He's just 11 months old.

This would be a great spot to bike. In fact I biked back out of the park. It's hilly and rocky the whole way down. About a mile and a half of incline and about 5 miles of decline. I think top speed I hit was about 31 mph. I did have to push my bike for some of the uphills. It was fun and I could see doing the ride again.

It's a great spot and worth a stop and we will return when it is warmer! As tent campers, it got just a little too chilly.

Lovely spacious sites right off the main road with some trees and bushes for shade and privacy very close to river. A short pleasant walk to nearby Dewey bridge. Almost perfect except in July it was extremely buggy at night. Understandable being so close to the river but something to keep in mind. Still worth a visit especially during the day to enjoy access to the river!