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Established Camping

Weller Campground

7 Reviews

About

National Forest

This campground has 11 campsites. Picnic Tables, Vault Toilets, Firegrates, Trash Disposal & Potable Water during the season. Access to fishing areas and trails are available. See the nearby Weller Trail. Camping is permitted in developed campgrounds and/or designated campsites only. This area provides access to the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness where Wilderness regulations apply. This campground has a 5 day stay limit. Check out time is 2:00 p.m. There is an 8 person, two car limit per campsite. Pets must be on a leash at all times while visiting campgrounds and within designated Wilderness. The leash should not exceed 6 feet in length.

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Location

Weller Campground is located in Colorado

Directions

From Aspen, CO, take State Rt. 82 east 7 miles to campground sign. Turn left at sign into campground. NOTE: Vehicles over 35 ft. are prohibited. State Rt. 82 is narrow and winding.

Coordinates

39.12094461 N
106.72042467 W

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Access

Drive-In
Park next to your site
Walk-In
Park in a lot, walk to your site.

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Site Types

Tent Sites
RV Sites
Standard (Tent/RV)

Features

For Campers

ADA Access
Trash
Picnic Table
Reservable
Drinking Water
Toilets
Alcohol
Pets
Fires

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General Info

Peter S.

Guide

Reviewed Jul. 19, 2021

Okay spot in the aspen trees

If you can't show a better campground nearby like lost man campground, this tiny option can work. Small Adjacent sites big enough for a car and tent and table but not much more. Visually nice as it is in the aspens but within meters of the busy road and on a hill so half the cats are climbing. and your neighbors are super cozy nextdoor. Good option if you are exhausted or everywhere else is taken, but sim for others if you can. We arrived around 10 on a weekday in July and found a few open spots.

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Month of VisitAugust

Jeff K.

Guide

Reviewed Oct. 2, 2020

No privacy. Too close to road

We drove to Lost Man Campground where the NF service decided to close in September which was total BS. We backtracked to Lincoln Dispersed with the same results. So we settled for this campground which only had two sites available on Sept 29. For $25 a night we found this to have very little privacy and loud road (Rt82) right next to it. The bathroom was the worst I’ve seen in the 6 week road trip and the water was already turned off. The views were nice and it you could get a site on the outer ring it might be more enjoyable. There are some easy and beautiful hikes around this area. When we return to this area it won’t be so close to the end of the season and we will try NOT to be at this campground again.

Erik S.

Legend

Reviewed Sep. 13, 2020

Beautiful location but too close to the road.

Weller campground has decent sized campsites surrounded by Aspen trees and overall it was nice and pleasant but the close proximity to Independence Pass Road was occasionally loud, I would give this a higher rating if the road wasn’t there. Many of the campground photos show a creek but that’s actually not in the campground and is located on the trailhead that’s accessed from across the road at the Weller Trailhead parking lot. There are bear bins in the campsites and the campground has bear-resistant trash cans. When I camped there in mid September the temperature was 38 degrees F at 6am.

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Month of VisitOctober

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Crystal C.

Legend

Reviewed Nov. 1, 2018

Smaller Mountain Campground With Hiking Nearby

This is one of the smaller sites alongside the main road you will find just a short distance outside of Aspen. I was passing through late in the season, technically during "closure" but was able to snag a site because it had not yet been closed due to unusually warmer fall. There had been some snowfall higher up but where I was there had not so the camp had not been closed. They had however turned off the potable water source but vault toilets and sites remained open.

I was located in site 5 which had a small back in area, a picnic table and fire ring. There were also bear boxes throughout camp, which you need to use if you are here because there is a population of bears that will raid camp. I made sure to keep any food in the car behind doors and cleaned up away from camp with my own water source so as to not attract anything to come near. Bears do scare me a bit!!

The site for my tent was lush and grassy, it had not yet frozen or died for the season so it felt very fluffy underneath my tent.

Temperatures dropped dramatically at night and I was happy there was no fire ban when I visited because I used my fire for a heat source in the evening and then hand warmers inside extra socks at night. It was pretty peaceful at the camp as a whole.

While there I enjoyed hiking on the Weller Trail which heads directly out from the parking area near the camp and treks a short distance with some amazing views. I was so happy to have found this site for only $21.

TIPS:

Typical season is May to the end of September if it is before or after this time check with the Forest Service to see if they have opened camp for season.
Bring a flashlight there is no external light at the campground so you will not be able to see anything without one.

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Angela F.

Traveler

Reviewed Aug. 10, 2018

We scored with this campsite

We initially wanted to camp up by Maroon Bells, but there were no campsites available, so we turned around and headed back to Weller. We had a great experience here and it was a perfect little camp ground. We stayed in spot 9! Highly recommend this spot to anyone in Aspen!

Ashley & Derek V.

Guide

Reviewed Jul. 20, 2018

Decent, but right next to the main road

This campground is easily accessible from the main road and has quite a few campsites. It's nice but we like to be more secluded while camping, so we were extremely disappointed that it's right next to the road. If you're looking for a more classic camping "experience", I would try somewhere else.

Pros: easy, sites are fairly private

Cons: lots of road noise, nothing special

Month of VisitAugust

BRANDON F.

Traveler

Reviewed Jun. 23, 2016

Weller is the best!!!

This Campground is awesome!! Just be smart with your food, there is lots of Bears in the canyon! Beautiful campground, awesome host and quiet!!! We try to camp at Weller 1-2 times per summer!

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