Sleeping Elephant Campground

US Forest Service · Colorado

Sleeping Elephant Campground in Colorado. Ringed marker is this site; the other dots are the 939 public campsites we map in Colorado.

This campground is located adjacent to Highway 14 in an open ponderosa pine setting near its namesake, Sleeping Elephant Mountain. The mountain and the inherent sleeping elephant is visible from the campground. The Cache la Poudre River is nearby but it is mostly on private land within the immediate vicinity. There are 15 sites each with a picnic table and fire pit. This is an older facility and will not accommodate larger RVs.

What we know about it

Managed by

US Forest Service

Fee

Not published (the agency does not list one)

Booking

first-come, first-served

Dogs

Allowed on a leash (USFS policy)

Number of sites

75

Coordinates

40.68254, -105.77273

Nearest sites we map

• Big Bend Campground5 km · US Forest Service
• Big South Campground6 km · US Forest Service
• Tunnel Campground7 km · US Forest Service
• Aspen Glen Campground8 km · US Forest Service
• Chambers Lake11 km · US Forest Service
• North Fork Poudre Campground15 km · US Forest Service

Source: Recreation.gov, dated 2026-02-25, fetched 2026-09-07. Official listing.

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