Cache La Poudre-North Park Scenic and Historic Byway
Colorado Scenic Byway 98 mi in Colorado.
About the Cache La Poudre-North Park Scenic and Historic Byway
This byway links Fort Collins with Walden, a part of North Park, a quiet, bowl-shaped valley just east of the Continental Divide.
Today's visitors lean more toward recreation; whitewater boaters and anglers love the Poudre, Colorado's only federally designated National Wild and Scenic River. At 10,276-foot Cameron Pass, the highway intersects Colorado State Forest, a 70,000-acre preserve of glaciated mountains and evergreen thickets. North Park, once a favorite bison grazing ground, remains heavily populated with deer, antelope, elk, moose, beaver and coyote; migrating waterfowl flock to the Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge.
Colorado Department of Transportation's own description, in its words. Byway page on codot.gov.
Designations: Colorado State Scenic Byway, National Forest Scenic Byway.
Camping along the byway
- Mile 22 · on the roadAnsel Watrous · Forest Service · 17 sites · reservable
- Mile 26 · on the roadStove Prairie · Forest Service · 9 sites · reservable
- Mile 30 · on the roadNarrows (Co) · Forest Service · 15 sites · reservable
- Mile 31 · on the roadDutch George Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 33 · on the roadMountain Park · Forest Service · 57 sites · reservable
- Mile 34 · 3.6 mi offJacks Gulch · Forest Service · 3 sites · reservable
- Mile 34 · on the roadKelly Flats Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 44 · 4.4 mi offBellaire Lake Campground · Forest Service · 27 sites · reservable
- Mile 49 · on the roadBig Bend Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 52 · on the roadSleeping Elephant Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 56 · 2.4 mi offTunnel Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 58 · on the roadBig South Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 59 · on the roadAspen Glen Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 61 · on the roadChambers Lake · Forest Service · 51 sites · reservable
- Mile 68 · 4.3 mi offGrandview Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 69 · on the roadState Forest State Park - Crags · State park · 26 sites · reservable
- Mile 73 · on the roadState Forest State Park - Ranger Lakes Campground · State park · 32 sites · reservable
- Mile 73 · 3.8 mi offState Forest State Park - Bockman · State park · 52 sites · reservable
- Mile 75 · 1.4 mi offPines Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 76 · 0.8 mi offAspen Campground · Forest Service
- Mile 78 · 2.4 mi offState Forest State Park - North Michigan Reservoir · State park · 48 sites · reservable
Public campgrounds within 5 miles of the road as the crow flies, in order along the byway; each one's page has its facts, season and weather by month.
About this page's facts
The line is the Federal Highway Administration's scenic byways layer (HEPGIS, a snapshot of 2022-06-24, a US government work), cut at the state line and simplified for the map; the length is the line's. The designation is the program's own: the national tiers from FHWA's America's Byways roster, the rest from the layer's designation field. Road conditions, closures and seasonal gates change: check the agency's own page and the state's road conditions before you go.