Chief Hosa Campground

Just 15 mn up to hill from Denver. Nicely wooded campground with water, electric at site and dump station in the campground. Nice showers and very secure and well maintained. Lots of hiking, mtn biking, gravel and road biking trails right from the campground.

We stayed here for two nights over Labor Day weekend. The staff here was very friendly and helpful. We had troubles setting up because our site was on a slight incline. The staff let us borrow an extension for power so that we could reposition to make us more level. It’s a serene setting amongst the pine trees with a bit of a view of mountains to the north. The highway noise was very noticeable, but didn’t take away from the peaceful setting. It was a clean campground. The bathrooms and showers were clean and have a key code for entry. There are a couple of trails or walk. Upon starting a walk we encountered a bear within 100 feet in front of us. Thankfully it didn’t pay us any attention as we retreated in the other direction. Overall it was a nice campground and we would stay again.

I stayed at chief hosa for 1 night in August. The site had Enough room for 2 tents. The showers were clean and coin operated . This campground is about 20 minutes to coors field. Great place to stay near Denver yet still camp. Noise from highway wasn't an issue. Some did fird it bothersome.

This place is a nice spot to base out of while visit the western suburbs of Denver. AC hookups and water. There is a dump station. It can get some highway noise.

I camped here a couple nights, one night the bathrooms were out of order so I had to leave.. campsites are very close together and it’s pretty close to the road so you here cars at night. I also heard helicopters at night. Good bathrooms and showers except when it was out of order.. don’t expect a very scenic view, it’s just a place to camp

Nice clean campground right off the highway yet little traffic noise. About 40 min from Denver with tons of hikes nearby. Quarter showers, bathrooms and even a dish pit. They have rv spots and tent spots

Great campground outside of Denver. Friendly folks and great trails all around.

Staff is really kind and accommodating, there’s a lot of sites that are deeper in the woods and a little lower on the hill that don’t get as great as views so make sure you check out the map.

This campsite was a life saver on a cross country trip. All sites in the Denver/Rocky Mountain area were apparently booked months in advance and we were striking out everywhere. The online booking process for Chief Hosa was difficult/mobile-unfriendly which must have worked in our favor, ha! Sites are clean, pretty close together. Bathrooms clean with coin operated showers. The area is magnificent- saw bison on our hike, close to Dinosaur Ridge and other attractions. Friendly staff and quiet campers :)

Right off i70 easy to get to. A little road noise but nothing bad. Solid T-Mobile cell coverage. Getting 45/3Mb up and down.

Well run campsite. Plenty of room on many sites. Water tasted great. Note that as campsites go away from the road they go down hill until it switches over to tents, where it goes back up. They have tether ball!

The campsites in this park are small although there is a skipped campsite between each one because of Covid so that was nice. Roads and turns within the road are quite tight for larger RVs. There were some motorhomes in pull through sites. Campground gate house is manned only during daytime hours. Gate house attendant was very friendly and helpful. Restrooms were very clean, $.50 for four minute shower. We had only a couple of days in the area and so we’re on the go all the time, saw the Buffalo, saw elk nearby and enjoyed the ride up to Golden gate Canyon State Park. The community of Golden is a fun visit. Very conveniently located to I 70 but far enough away that noise from it was not an issue. Water and electric. Good price for being a high tourist area.
We would return if we were in the area.

This is yet another super popular campground in the Denver area. We got super lucky and scooped up a last-minute cancellation. There are tent sites as well as RV sites with water/electric. There is a bike path as well as some mountain biking nearby. Downtown Golden is a super cute town and it is only about 15 minutes away. The campground isn’t very big or scenic, but the location is great! The showers here are coin operated and the bathrooms are kept really clean.

This small campground is great for those looking for a quick getaway near Denver. It's pretty quiet as they don't allow fires or alcohol although I'm not sure the alcohol is enforced. Great access to trails for hiking nearby. The shower houses are super clean which is a nice bonus.

Nice campground with clean bathrooms and showers

We stayed here because it was close to where we were climbing(clear creek canyon) but this place doesnt really give you any feel of being in nature. There are wooden fences around the campsite and you can hear noise from the road constantly. The campsite itself seemed clean and well run. bathrooms were nice for a campsite. had coin pay showers/multiple stalls. no fire rings. old/beat up picnic tables.

I secured tent site T-9 as I've always secured this particular site for 14 days. I have used this campground on repeat occasions yearly. This last visit I checked in for my site at T-9, and the whole grounds on which this site sits, was completely covered in Foxtails. For those who do not know what Foxtails are they are extremely dangerous to Dogs and Cats. The seed heads burrow into the pets skin and migrate further into their bodies causing damage to internal organs. Just look up Foxtail dangers to dogs. Anyway, I put down tarps to cover an area for my bulldog to at least have somewhere to sit, play a bit and chew on a few treats and toys I brought along and join us during down time. I went up and talked to the rangers and explained why I did it. The ranger I spoke to said he understood and that that particular site had been booked since opening of season and that they hadn't been able to spray the weeds. I explained how dangerous the Foxtails were to dogs and that if they are to rent that space to another with a dog they may want to block out a week and take care of it before someone else's dog gets into it. Most people who are not from the west likely don't even know what Foxtails are and what kind of serious damage (even death) it can do to their loved pets. They agreed and said it's fine that we put the tarps down we were doing them a favor by suffocating them. Day 3 rolls around and we return around 7-ish to our campsite to find a warning citation on our table, written by a different ranger, stating we have to remove the tarps immediately, for destruction of their vegetation or they will write us a citation with a fine and/or evict us from the campground. What really got me is according to the State of Colorado Regulations they are supposed to have 900 square feet of usable safe space (safe, meaning to humans and pets/small animals) per campsite. Most sites are with a parking spot with nice gravel and traveled up to the tent pad. However, this site and a couple others were not, for reasons not really explained to us. Anyways, next morning the ranger came and spoke to my husband and said the other ranger was misinformed about telling us what he did about suffocating the weeds, and that we need to remove the tarps. They offered us an alternative camp site, but when we took them up on that offer, they proceeded to tell us none were available for the time frame we had remaining. We would have to move sights a few times. Now, anyone who knows about tent camping, it is a lot of work to relocate a camp site. To do this several times would not even be worth it. We proceeded to ask for a refund, NOPE! No refunds since there is nothing wrong in their eyes with the T-9 site. They offered their group site area to us, so we took it and moved camp only once. The new problem was no parking. We had to walk all our things twice a day to the car in the visitors parking lot. This campsite has had Bears on numerous occasions. There are NO BEARBOXES and so the moving of all food and items with smell had to be taken to and from the car every night and every time we wanted to cook. The ranger proceeded to tell us that they contacted their naturalist, and deemed those Foxtail weeds as an exotic species and so therefore they need to be protected even though it is all over in between the sites and in the foot tall grasses they haven't maintained. I asked why it had to be in the "safezone" of our so called tent site and they just said because it is a special species and it has to be allowed to grow where it wants naturally. So, I asked, how is it that these plants could be more important than the health and welfare of my dog on a site that was advertised as dog friendly? They could not answer and told me to take it up with Denver Parks and Recreation. So, I will. Now, in addition to this event, over the last two years or approximately since the marijuana laws have changed in this state, we have seen partyers of all sorts up all night making loud noises after the 10 PM quiet time, hypothermic needles on the ground, air wreaking of pot at all hours, drunk and vomiting people in the overnight hours of the restrooms. They seem to also allow the same offenders to come back to other sites on different days. Homeless people sleeping in the ladies restrooms overnight, asking other guests for money and alcohol and they apparently allow homeless people to rent a tent site and just sleep in their cars. One particular person was there with his dog and was so high he didn't even close his windows and his Husky jumped out of his vehicle and was roaming around all the campsites including ours at night. I had to wake this man up and he was smelly and out of it. He said his dog got loose in the evening hours and he just figured he would come back. Also, you must listen to I-70 Vehicles all night as the campground has no sound wall from the highway. if you like to hear J-brakes from semi's all night this place is for you. I now see why they have a whole list of rules and regulations in place because the childish behavior from the homeless and Red Rock concert goers and pot smoking hippies that are swarming the place are completely out of hand. All the while they apparently only enforce their precious Foxtail weeds over all the other nonsense. No Campfires, strict restrictions on how you can and can't cook food. no hammocks or lines from trees for dogs or dish towels etc. The last two times have progressively gotten worse. This last time being the topper on the cake. I will never return to this campground EVER!

We stayed at Chief Hosa for 2 nights in early August. There was a fire restriction in place and the campground hosts had spotted a black bear in the area a few days earlier. The campground is small, but very well maintained and the sites are large. They use a keycode system to restrict access to the centrally-located bathhouse (there is only one in the campground), which I thought was clever. We were lucky that our site was relatively close to the bathhouse, but some of the tent sites on the perimeter of the campground would have a decent trek to use the restroom in the middle of the night. The bathrooms were VERY clean and seemed to be pretty new - plenty of bathroom stalls, sinks, and large showers. They were quarter showers for 2 minutes of hot water, so basically less than $1 per shower, which is great.

The campground is close to the highway and even with the fans on at night in the pop-up we could still hear some of the highway noise, but it wasn’t a big deal. I’m sure it would be a bigger deal to tent campers. About a mile up the highway there is an exit with a Wal-mart, a Soopers (local grocery chain), a McDonald’s, etc. With the fire ban in effect, we couldn’t use the Biolite to make coffee in the morning, so it was nice to be able to drive to McDonald’s in 3 minutes in the morning to grab some coffee.

From Chief Hosa, you’re about 45 minutes from downtown Boulder, 25 minutes to Denver, and 35 minutes to Water World, which is the reason we stayed in the area for the night. There are closer Denver Parks and campgrounds, but in the summer their sites are reserved well in advance. Water World was a ton of fun for the whole family and we went into Boulder that night for dinner. We ate at Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery, which was delicious and extremely reasonable for the beers, the amount of food that we ate (their burgers are awesome), and the fact that it’s Boulder, which I heard was relatively expensive.