East Portal Campground — Hotel in Montrose

Go to the walk-in campground area and you will NOT be disappointed.

$20/night

Secluded area with 95% less traffic than either North or South Rim Campgrounds.

Beautiful area with clean bathrooms, trash cans, bear-proof bins for smelly things, and potable water.

I strongly recommend this campground over North or South if you want to see way fewer people.

Make sure to use your lower gear when coming down the road to East Portal or your brakes will smell the campground up and everyone will laugh at you for not knowing how to descend steep roads.

There are fire rings, picnic tables, tent platforms, and trees to hang hammocks on/be in the shade of.

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This was a great campground! There are 16 designated campsites. A small handful of them are pull ins. The rest are ones you have to carry stuff down to the campsite. It wasn’t too far, but it is down a large fight of stairs. That is where we stayed in spot 7. It was perfect! Each site has a pad for the tent, a picnic table, and a fire ring with a grate on top for cooking. There was a water spout that we washed dishes in (I don’t know if the water is drinkable) The bathrooms are very clean for campsite bathrooms with a pit toilet. There are also food lockers throughout the campground. It was $16/night. There was barely anyone else here. The site is very close to the water. So the drive down was very steep and slow. But it...

Developed Park Service campground on the banks of the Gunnison River with drive-in and walk-in sites. Though technically a part of the adjacent Curecanti National Recreation Area, the East Portal area can only be accessed through the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and the seasonal East Portal Road, a very,very steep road (16% grades) that travels 7 miles down to the river. Truly located on the river, the campground offers easy river access for fishermen and hikers. Adjacent to the campground is the historic East Portal of the Gunnison Tunnel, the diversion dam, and...