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Primitive camping is allowed in the Half Moon area along Pole Creek only.
Primitive camping sites exist along Pole Creek within the WHMA. The area provides access to adjacent U.S. Forest Service lands and little Half Moon Lake where additional recreational opportunities exist.
The trail begins with a small ATV bridge across the creek from a dispersed campsite and parking area just on the west of Greys River, about 46 miles upriver from Alpine, Wyoming. It provides motorized access for 2 miles, then becomes a horse/hiking trail that connects to the Way Trail, or over the top to Sheep Pass. Spring Creek Falls is an attraction.
The North Fork Sheep Creek trail begins from the north side of Sheep Creek Road, FS 10125 and provides access to the 70 mile Wyoming Range National Recreation Trail.
The Blucher Creek Campground is 74 miles from Rock Springs and 70 miles from Lander. It's an ADA accessible site and features a safety structure, accessible picnic tables, fire rings and an accessible vault toilet. Stay limit is 14 days. There are no fees associated with this site.
Trails 3092 and 3093--Little Greys and Pickle Pass--start at the end of Little Greys River Road and lead visitors to the Wyoming Range National Recreation Trail. Trail 3076 brings people to the Deadman Peak Fire Lookout.
The Bailey Creek trail is 9 miles long (one-way), and travels across the watershed divide to scenic Bailey Lake then continues down to the Snake River. Its source to the Snake River is designated as a national Wild and Scenic River. The trailhead for the Bailey Creek trail offers several areas for dispersed camping as well as plenty of parking. Alternatively, access by fording or boating the Snake River from the Elbow is also possible late in the season.
The site of the first Fire Guard Station, Sweetwater Guard Station, has three walk in access campsites and an additional eight sites featuring picnic tables, fire rings at each site. Nestled in the Wind River Mountains, this campground located about 73 miles from Rock Springs and 69 miles from Lander. It is ADA accessible and is a non-fee area.
This is an interesting place, right close to town, but isolated in a draw, so feels like you’re out in the boonies. Stars at night are beautiful with little light pollution. Full hook ups, but we were in a site that they tell you on the website has low water pressure so we knew. The sites that are lower have better pressure, I guess. I had loaded our tank before staying anyway, so no big deal. We were in site 1a, which was a pull through site. The back in sites have plenty of room to back into, so when we go again I would probably reserve one of those instead. There is access to trails to the back country to the north, so a great place to bring an ATV and explore.
No trees or grass, but not a big deal to us. The landscape is scenic. Their website says the scenery from 1a is not as good as the other sites, but we liked it.
Very nice little off-ish grid campground in Wyoming. The camp host is super nice and there is water spaced out around the campground. All in all a nice place for only an hour south of Jackson Hole. Verizon At&t and Tmobile all had reception.
Long dirt road with lots of trails leading to nice spots. The road and most of the campsites are fit for large RVs. Most spots have shade and fire rings. I came in late July and there were lots of motorcycles and ATVs. It was quiet from 7 PM to 7 AM.
We called & were lucky to get one of the last spots for the night with full hook ups. The hosts were super friendly. The restrooms were spotless & spacious- lots of attention to detail with clothes hooks & benches. The grounds were very clean & well kept. They even have a leash free clean dog park. We couldn’t have asked for a better one night stay!
A stunningly gorgeous campground 9 miles up the gravel road. 2wd F150 did just fine but it didn't rain much. Saw some passenger cars but they didn't have an easy time of it in the county regrading of the road.
Had no problems with wildlife but the site host did a great job of making sure everyone had been keeping a clean camp.
This area is a wide open no shade glacial pothole lake. There are free designated, kind of, campsites around the lake. Couple places to launch a boat and four vault toilets scattered around. No trash dumpsters, no water, but fair to good cell signal depending on your location. Only a few miles outside of Pinedale on nice graded gravel roads. 14 day camping limit is posted.
We arrived at night and found a spot pretty easily. The next morning, we tried to venture outside and the mosquitos were coming in thick swarms. We ran back to the camper trying to avoid the ridiculous amount of cow patties. The dogs were snatching the dried ones up as we ran further exacerbating the trauma. 😂. Our one dog fell 10 feet into the Reservoir because the edges are not sturdy. We had a hard time getting him out as the walls are straight up. We were afraid he was going to get sucked into the spillway. Needless to say, go further than we did if you want to stay here. Not sure what it is like, but it's bound to be better.
The fishing is great up there. Just make sure u have your rez pass, cuz they'll hassle you about it when they're drunk and in a pack...
We arrived past dark. Poorly lit and could not determine the sites so we opted for dispersed area which was also difficult to navigate. Website was attractive. No management on site. Left payment in drop box. Large campground map at entrance wasn’t drawn according to actual view from the map so it was not helpful. One bathroom on private property inside attached building. Weird but there was hot water. Potable water turned off for season. In daylight, pretty stream & bluff nearby. Quiet campground.
It took me about 90 minutes once I hit the unpaved portion of the road. Very rough. Averaged about 5 to 10 mph. I have a 4x4 van. I did see a Subaru coming the other way. Would not want to travel this road if it was wet and muddy.
However, the campground and surrounding area are beautiful. Lots of hiking nearby around the lake and into the Winds. The sites are fairly private and spread out. The clean vault toilets are like little log cabins. There was only a handful of sites occupied while I was there in mid-October.
The very long gravel road to get here is terrible but 100% worth it! Doable in a 2WD but recommend 4WD. The campsites are semi private and there is lots so dont be worried! The surroundings are beautiful and the lake is a short walk which is nothing less of stunning. Would definitely revisit.
This was a great stay while visiting Teton National Park. While 1 hour from the closest entrance, it was more like 1.5 hours to the more popular Teton areas.
For $65, we felt it was a bit pricey but the amenities made it worth it. We had a beautiful corner spot by the river, had full hookups, and they even offered higher blocks for our jacks at the spot. Brand new fire pits, with wood to purchase on site, and an ice cream social on Sunday evening. The hosts were very friendly too. We were sad to leave!
If you have the time, highly recommend the National Museum of Military Vehicles nearby - it was Smithsonian level! We spent hours there! We also visited the Cowboy Cafe for breakfast which was wonderful too.
This is a wide open dispersed location along the Green River. You might be competing with free grazing cattle, but they're respectful. It's a beautiful spot. The road in is washboard, so be patient.
Quiet site in the Pinedale area, so that's a positive. It's also by a creek, so you have fishing and water. This area is used for fishing, hunting, trapping, camping, hiking, and wildlife viewing.
It’s a rough drive in down the last road. I recommend high clearance, 4WD even better. The main road in is improved gravel and easy, but there are hairpin turns on the hill, so I don't recommend long rigs or long 5th wheels. I went in with a regular clearance front wheel drive, but it was dicey.
Very clean, tidy site with plenty of space. Extremely helpful owner helped us sort something with another part of our trip.
If you want to see clear rivers and beautiful scenery this is the spot to hit! Tons of free camping spots along the way up a long gravel road till the actual campground. Beautiful spots along the river and 1 mile down the road from a GORGEOUS waterfall. Hot spring offered as well but looked more like a pool lounge. Would be fun with a group of people. Campground was quiet and well maintained. Plenty of foliage around for fires. Host paid a friendly visit which was nice! Fit our 33’ pull behind.
This is camping at its finest. Tons of options to choose from that have different levels to the amount of ruggedness you want your camping to be. We found a spot on the creek and tucked away. It’s best country so be prepared with proper food storage and spray.
I almost wish we were staying longer than one night. Pool, mini golf, great camp store. Site along Wind River plenty of room absolutely beautiful!
Easy drive up campsites. Level parking
If your looking for a quiet peaceful spot with a breathtaking view, you’re at the perfect place. If you want the luxury of “keep it simple” you will find it there. Great fishing spot. Pit toilets. Only “negative” point is the unpaved road up the mountain.
Found a large spot about a mile up the road, on the left side. The road was pretty good, even for our overloaded car and rented trailer. The spot was large enough to turn around and easily maneuver the trailer. We got there on a Thursday evening at about 8pm. Nobody passed our campsite that whole evening, aside from a deer. The only downside was the crazy amount of mosquitoes. Bring bug spray!
There were many available campsites and it’s not far from the main road at all. I had a bar of service via Verizon. Really had the place to ourselves. On the way out, there was a herd of cows blocking the road and some cowboys driving them. But it wasn’t a long roadblock.
Be aware, you MUST have a reservation pass to camp here. I was told that you can get into serious trouble if you don’t have one. Enquire at Lander or Dubois about getting a pass
So I used to like this place in the last years but now I started to have second thoughts I don't know if I was unlucky this year, but I was surprised to have some disappointments here. One of the things was find a single RV site accommodating one RV, 3 cars, tent and multiple families. I understand if a single family brings one or two extra adult to stay in the RV with a couple of kids plus an UTV but overpopulating with an RV, multiple large cars, more than one single family and children(lots of) also building tent that's for me was a little disappointing. Another thing I was worry, even with that amount of people, there was a moment I went out and I saw they left the fire burning and unassisted. My list of concerns didn't stop here, I noticed some vehicles would not respect the speed limit of the campsite(in a place with kids! What is happening with this world!). In addition, because the kids were be walking around, they stressed out my dog which barked and I was the one reported! In respect to the facility I stayed inside of the RV with my dog(not the the way I had planned to spend my vacation and I did lots of rv travel, this was the first time I got reported for my dog!). On the other hand there were a day some kids were playing with some toy gun(not sure what kind, pellet, bb gun, whatever) that even our friend(yes we travel in group, everyone with their own rv site) who was few sites on the left of us that heard the shots of the toy gun. I just hopefully it wasn't a pellet/bb gun because we have people, pets and other kids around here. And there was the dog poop! This year it seems we got some bad dog owner, for the first time we encounter dog poop in some areas we used to walk.(again, what is happening with this world!!!) About the overpopulated RV site, I asked about the reception if they don't have restriction about the limit of people and cars, families, tents to receive on a rv site they pretty much I was told there is no restriction. So if you want to bring multiple families in several vehicles plus RV, built tents around the rv to accommodate everybody and all cramped in a single RV site to save money, this is the place to come. Another episode that startled me. The day we arrived, we started to unpack and I was laying on the ground the panels of the dog playpen on the grass near to the behind of the rv to assemble and suddenly a cart/utv comes driving over the grass toward to the panel I had just laid down on the grass. I signed the driver to watch for the panel and instead of stopping or slowing down he just drove over and neither stopped to apologize or check if he caused any damage, he just drove away. Either this drive was an employee or another bad customer that thought it was ok to drive over the grass area between the sites and the river. I never saw this happen in the past years I came here. This year unfortunately I didn't have much of a good experience here. Usually I don't write reviews but I want to make sure people that has certain expectation for their camping vacation like I do be aware of what they may experience here.
Great gravel campground with level ground for RV parking. The host is very nice and welcoming, views are amazing, and the facility is super clean! Best bathroom/shower I have ever used. Fenced in dog area was great and allowed my two dogs to stretch their legs off leash. All hookups available for RV at your site. I highly recommend staying here! It was perfect for our stop to the Teton National Park 1.5 hrs away. Pricing was more expensive than what was listed, but offered at 10% military discount!
This campground is amazing! Wi-Fi is good. Bathrooms are perfect. Staff was very friendly. Our site sat on the running stream, it was very peaceful.
WE spent 4 nights here backed up to the river. Not many people yet (late May). the facilities were clean. Restrooms and showers are perfect. Many trees taht were just getting their leaves. Would definately stay here again!
We drove to Teton National Park, which is about an hour away and Yellowstone is about 1 1/2 hours away. If you really want to spend time at Yellowstone, you need to camp in the park. The driving distance is too far.
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