Turkey Creek Road | Wild Camping

March 9th, 2024 by Skibumwook

road closure on turkey creek so we can't go far but enough space for two cars just off the main road

August 29th, 2023 by thegirlcanshop

We drove up late on Tuesday night (9:30) after dinner in Pagosa. Took the first one we found. In daylight there is a great parking spot plus a tent spot further back. We could have probably backed in. This morning’s walk revealed 2 additional spots further up with plenty of room to park and set up tents. The middle spot has the best view. Ours has a good one too. Easy to do with 2WD Promaster van. Saw multiple deer on our walk too.

May 21st, 2023 by shane.lewis81

There are a few good spots all along this road, but this one looked like the best. I was the only one here on a Sunday night. Saw a ton of deer. No cell service. You have to keep driving if you want any views, the spot itself doesn't really have any. The road to the spot is fine, but I continued down the road and had to turn around because I didn't feel safe in my 2wd. It was quite muddy after rain. But again, the road to the spot was good.

May 5th, 2023 by angelisaa

I stayed at the top of this road. Not hard to get up in my food transit connect. No service. Only seen one person and he was a local hiking the trail that is near there. It was muddy and snowy so he turned back.
Nice spot

October 13th, 2022 by bjdanz

I drove almost all the way up the road in my short skoolie with no problem at all. they were at least five or six different spots where you could either pull off or there's actually an established campsite. I got a great spot with a fire ring and a decent view. Plenty of dead and down wood to make a fire with. Highly recommended!

August 5th, 2022 by lborms

We stayed on this spot for 4 nights. One of the best. Great views and fire ring. Saw maybe 5 cars in those 4 days. We had the second spot on the left, about 1 mile up on Turkey Creek Road, left on 160 driving from Pagosa to the North. Road is good condition. Spot was large enough for our ford e250 extended and trailer.

July 3rd, 2022 by Colleen_JördTheVan

We had heard this place could get crowded, so we drove up early and took a spot closer to the entry than this point. Can’t speak for the spots further up the road but our spot over the hillside was perfect. Small campfire on the lower level of the spot, but after a little bit of rain the embankment was almost too steep/slippery to get our 2wd sprinter back up; we moved our van to the higher spot to make sure we would be able to pull out easily. Cell signal nonexistent but the view was phenomenal and quiet after 9pm. We heard coyotes on the hillside throughout the night but saw no other wildlife.

May 20th, 2022 by mariaandpatrick

Several decent spots on the 3 mile stretch. On this date there were 4 rigs. Road became rutted after mile 2. No cell service for T-Mobile.

October 2nd, 2021 by enoriega617

breathtaking views Road wasn't that bad came in a van beautiful Mountains views

November 29th, 2020 by rochelledavis01

Lots of spots once you turn onto the dirt road. Some off small side roads and others as large pullouts. Pretty views of the mountains. No traffic noise. No Verizon cellular service

August 7th, 2020 by montaguesolar.com

Rad camping. Trail at turn around is worth hiking. Be kind to nature and she will be kind to us.

June 11th, 2020 by karyleepix.kh

great camping a nice views on the main
road in. no wi-fi for us with Verizon. we were in a white van and a white pickup camper.

November 13th, 2019 by katieparker1616

This was a great little spot, and because nobody else camped in the area we had complete privacy despite the site being right off the forest road. Gorgeous views and as others stated, the road in is super well maintained and caused essentially zero bumpy stress. :) Its only 3 miles long before you hit a dead end, so if it doesn’t work out it won’t be a super long detour before you are back on 160. We saw 4 established campsites - maybe one very simple “pull-in” that could work in a pinch. The largest and flattest campsite is a couple miles in off to the right. It didn’t have any gorge views but did have a lot of space and privacy. None of the spots (in November) offered great sun for solar charging but that could be different when the sun doesn’t by 5 pm.

July 29th, 2019 by jessicatatum2

great spots with a view of the hills and the sound of the river in the gorge next to it.
has a level spot but nothing bigger than a large van could fit in it. has a small turn around driveway that could fit two cars. flat spot could fit one large tent or two small ones. fire ring already set up. The road was not very bumpy at all and well maintained. there was another really good spot on the left before this one. and possibly a few more down the road but I didn't check it out.