The Bank Campground

Looks like the B side has bigger camping spaces than A side. Vault restrooms were ok. The picnic tables on B are great, made of concrete. Very dry location is a plus for no mosquitos. But no big trees or shades, no place for hammocks. Please take home all our trash including poop bags !!!!

Overall well-maintained site and convenient for those who like making reservations. Our campsite was on an edge of a cliff, too close to a drop-off with no warning signs or fences - could be dangerous at night, especially for dogs. The ground was rocky with shallow layers of dirt (at least at Campsite 1), making it difficult to stake our tent on the ground in multiple spots. We camped late summer and there were lots of ants and large cacti - fine for us but wanted to share that info especially for those who have allergic reaction to ant bites. Great location if you plan to camp for Shelf Rd climbing. There are multiple public vault restrooms stocked with toilet paper. Beautiful scenery. Nice area for stargazing.

Amazing views from the A-Loop campsites but the Biting Flies were as thick as... flies. (The Gnats were incessant too.) So essentially, it made the time from mid-day till 7pm really difficult to enjoy there in the campground. For our next two days, we made sure to be gone by then. We had stayed in sand gulch just down the road, over Labor Day and had problems with the flies also but we're hoping that they wouldn't be as bad earlier in the summer. We were wrong. We stayed in site A2 which was a decent site and convenient to one of the vault toilets. Not a lot of privacy as site A1 shared the same general area for its picnic table and fire ring as our site did. Another key thing to know is that the majority of the tent pads in the A loop are 9' square, which is smaller than normal in Colorado. There was no way we were going to be able to fit our hexagonal shaped tent on that tent pad. So we had to find some open space and that was still difficult to work with because there are a lot of rough, unevenly shaped rocks embedded in the ground all over the campsite which we couldn't avoid.

It's a beautiful high desert campgrounds with views in every direction. Vault bathrooms are clean and close by. Great hiking and as I hear it superb rock climbing.Very quiet at night. We'll be back ...

One of my favorite places to camp and climb. The campground had everything you'd want (beautiful view, clean bathrooms, etc), and the climbing and hiking in this area is a lot of fun.

Great views of a nearby canyon. Pull-through sites. The dirt road getting there is heavily washboarded, unfortunately.