Round Mountain

Round Mountain is a small, rustic campground that sits just 6 miles from Lake George and Eleven Mile Canyon, 11 miles from the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument and 15 miles from Eleven Mile Reservoir. It is also within a short drive of hiking and biking trails, fly fishing, and wildlife and bird watching. Visitors can also enjoy Eleven Mile Canyon for fishing, hiking, rock climbing, and wildlife watching. The nearby Riverside Campground offers access to the Hardrock Trail; the 1.5-mile trail is open to hikers and mountain bikers, and provides interpretive signs about native flora and fauna. Round Mountain offers about 15 campsites. Amenities include picnic tables, vault toilets, campfire rings, and a hand pump for drinking water. This is a 'pack in - pack out' facility. Round Mountain, at elevation 8,500 feet, sits near Blue Mountain, Stoll Mountain and Martland Peak. Campsites are widely spaced in woods of ponderosa pine and young aspen. The high altitude creates mild summer days and chilly nights, and aspen trees create a beautiful sunny yellow hue in fall. Interesting wild inhabitants of the area include porcupines, mule deer, beavers and chipmunks. At night, the area makes for incredible stargazing. Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, about a 15 minute drive away, boasts one of the richest and most diverse fossil deposits in the world. Petrified redwood stumps up to 14 feet wide and thousands of detailed fossils of insects and plants reveal the story of a very different, prehistoric Colorado.