Campgrounds near Denver that do not permit campfires

hedgehopper wrote:
Where, within two or three hours of Denver, are campgrounds that do not permit campfires, preferably with hiking trails and electrical hookups?

Perhaps also advising you which ones DO permit campfires may assist you more in your search, so you can rule them out.

For locations that have hiking, electric, AND allow campfires, you probably don't want to consider the Red Feather Lakes area. They have electric, but also allow campfires in provided fire rings and sell firewood. It can get pretty smokey up there at Dowdy Lake, West Lake, and Bellaire Lake.

In Poudre Canyon, most of the CG don't have electric, with the exception of Mountain Park, which is on the river, has electric, and also allows campfires.

These above are in the Roosevelt National Forest Ranger area, and the remainder of them, in Poudre Canyon as well as along the Peak-to-Peak Highway all are no hookups, but do allow campfires. I was up at Camp Dick a few weekends ago, there were a LOT of campfires, so a place like that probably wouldn't be what you're looking for. Beautiful place, though.

State Parks north of Denver -- Boyd Lake and St Vrain down in the flats all have some electric sites, and St Vrain has some full hookup...but they also provide grills. Same thing for Ranger Lakes over in the Colorado State Forest SP. Electric sites, but they also allow fires, and it gets real smokey over there. In Golden Gate Canyon SP at Reverend's Ridge, same thing...electric sites, but they also have grills.

Those are the ones that come to mind that DO NOT meet what you're looking for, so you can eliminate them if you wish. Hope you can find something that will work best for you; if I think of any others, either way, I'll post 'em!