Kelly Flats Campground

Kelly Flats is an outstanding camping experience. The sites are right on the Poudre River, and if you are tent camping the area is truly outstanding. We really enjoyed the camp hosts, who were very helpful.
If you enjoy privacy, there are several tent sites that offer it, and if you are camping with friends there are also adjacent sites that work very well for multiple tents and still have great areas to convene.
We had a great experience and will definitely be back.

I LOVE this campground :) The camp host that oversee this place keep it super clean. The bathrooms are really clean which really surprised me :) $ 20 a night! Not to bad to sleep on the river :)

Leaving Fort Collins, head West on hwy 14… past the little community of Poudre Canyon… past Mishawaka… past so many other campgrounds that you finally start to wonder if you’ll end up in Laramie, WY…
…and then FINALLY you’ll hit Kelly Flats.
Don’t worry, it’s worth it.
Kelly Flats Campground is located 35 miles west of Fort Collins in the Poudre Canyon. Of the 29 available sites, most are either right on the river or a mere few steps away. It’s low enough to wade and tube in the late-​fall, but it is COLD. Bring your fishing pole… you might just catch yourself a delicious trout!
The campground host keeps the bathrooms IMMACULATE, which is a huge bonus. No spiders! Most of the bathrooms are wheelchair ready.
Almost all the sites are car/​RV/​trailer accessible, but there are six that are walk-​in tent-​only. Not surprisingly, these six boast the best spots on the river. They’re also a bit more secluded. Even so, the other sites are spaced well enough apart so the slightly rowdy won’t step on the toes of the family campers (or vice versa!). It’s a great set-​up. Dogs are welcome, but need to be tied up at your campground. They’re free to frolic down by the river, though! Site 10 (walk-​in) has a cool little «swimming pool» of river rocks built up… and it’s probably really nice during the early summer months when the river’s a bit higher.
All sites have picnic tables and fire grates. You can buy wood from the camp host for $ 7 a bundle, but I recommend getting it at the Conoco in town for half the price. There isn’t much to gather at the campground.
One thing to note: there are TONS of yellowjackets. I don’t know if it’s because we camped late in the season, but those buggers were aggressive and mean. And EVERYWHERE. You’d be smart to pack one or two of those yellow wasp traps.
As camping goes, Kelly Flats is far enough out there to be really gorgeous and secluded, but developed enough to feel safe and fun for even the littlest campers. We took our one-​year-​old and he had a blast! We’ll be back next summer for sure!!!