Indian Creek Campground

Indian Creek is a Forest Service equestrian campground off US-67 in the Sedalia area, and the most important thing to know is the entry requirement: you must have a horse or mule to camp here. This is not a general campground that happens to allow horses. It is built for stock, with hitching rails, community corrals, trailer spurs in the 50-to-60-foot range, a four-horses-per-site limit, and a certified weed-free hay requirement. If you do not have stock, this is not your campground, and the Forest Service treats that as a real rule rather than a suggestion.

There are 7 sites, reservable through recreation.gov with a minimum advance window and a weekend minimum-stay requirement, at a nightly fee around $30 including two vehicles or one RV. Potable water is available from a hand pump, there is a vault toilet, and the elevation is roughly 7,200 feet. It sits on Indian Creek, not the South Platte, so this is not a fishing-the-Platte trip; it is a riding trip. The campground is the staging point for the Indian Creek and Bear Creek trail system, a loop in the neighborhood of 14 miles that riders, hikers, and mountain bikers all use.

Full service runs roughly late May into late September with the typical peak between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Because the site count is small and the campground is reservable, summer weekends book out, and the weekend minimum-stay rule means you are planning a full trip, not a one-night stop.

We are including Indian Creek in the camping coverage because it is a real, well-run Forest Service campground that DougCo-area equestrians genuinely use and search for. But the honest guidance is the entry requirement. If you were hoping for a quiet tent weekend without a horse, the Platte River corridor campgrounds near Deckers are what you actually want instead.