Rex Hale Campground

An amazing camp host, Tom, made us feel welcome and gave good advice. Good view, electricity hookup, and fairly quiet, even though it is close to the road. Not the best toilets, no shower, dumping, or water, however we were told that the larger campsites in Yellowstone would allow dumping free of charge for the Rex Hale guests.

Nice little quiet campground outside of east entrance of Y’stone. Super hot during day but cooled down considerably at night. Sites are spaced out well. Vault toilets were well’ish maintained.

Stopped here for one night with no reservation. Really scenic, and quiet even though we weren’t too far off the main road. Pretty river behind our site. Sites offered decent room to spread out.

Stopped here for one night with no reservation. Really scenic, and quiet even though we weren’t too far off the main road. Pretty river behind our site. Sites offered decent room to spread out.

This was a one night stop for me. It was lovely to wake up next the the river and eat breakfast. The site had bear boxes and dumpsters. The bathrooms were clean.

We loved it, wish we could have stayed longer. But, Yellowstone was closed and was going to be for a while and we had reservations down the road so we moved on

This campground is conveniently located about 15 miles from the east entrance of Yellowstone NP.  It is very scenic set against the backdrop of the Shoshone River, which there are a couple of footpaths down to the river's shore.  Apart from the occasional running generator, the campground was quiet.

There are the ususal amenities of a tent pad, fire pit, picnic table, and bear bin available.  The vault restrooms were clean throughout our stay.  

There is little to no tree cover throughout the campground, but worse than the lack of shade was the wind, which was bad even by Wyoming standards.

Access to Rex Hale was easy following the website instructions. Basically, you follow the signs through Cody to Yellowstone National Park via US 14, the park is right off US 14. There was no formal check-in. We had a reservation and that was noted on the post at our back-in site 9 with 50/30 AMP. There was confusion on our part whether we needed to get water before or after arriving based on several campground(CG) reviews. We called the ranger station the day prior who confirmed the water was on at the CG. Then we found out upon arrival that the sites as you come into the CG on the right side of the road up to site 12 have not only electric but also water! This was a recent addition and why water had been nonexistent or off in recent CG reviews. We were told there was a camp host but the host had actually already departed for the season. There was no cell signal nor OTA channels. There are about 30 sites with only sites 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, and 12 having electric and, now, water. The middle sites, the far CG end to the east and along the riverside of the CG have no utilities. There are water spigots periodically placed throughout the CG. There are several vault toilets but no showers. There is no dump station in the CG, but there is one in Buffalo Bill State Park near Cody. We were staying at an RV park in Cody and just dumped there. We were very impressed with this CG and really enjoyed our spacious site, the mountain views and the peacefulness of the place. We were here when they closed the CG for the season on 20 September and would definitely come back.

Open:  May Mid - Sep Mid

Reservations:  877-444-6777 or recreation.gov

Fees:  $20.00 for single with electric

           $15.00 for single with no electric

Accessible to persons with mobility issues

water   pit toilet   bear boxes   fire ring   picnic table   lantern pole   

Nice wide and clean sites with flat surface topped with gravel.  Campground is more or less level but the background views are just amazing.  The campground has sites that are great for the larger RV's and one of the few along the 14/16/20 highway that has electricity.  Most of the sites are open which works for solar but not so great in the summer with the heat.  There are a lot of trees but they are a bit scrawny.  The Shoshone River runs along the side of the campground.

The campground was named after a firefighter who died in the Blackwater Fire in 1937.  There is a Fire Fighter Memorial about 1 1/2 miles from the campground

Great camp site! Not far from entrance of Yellowstone. Restroom was very clean. If you find one available, stay!!

The mountains surrounding this campground are breathtaking. There is a small river running through the south part of the grounds, and you can hear it at night. It’s very quiet and relaxing. Few amenities, but great if you don’t need them.

Just 15 miles outside of Yellowstone, with several inexpensive first come first serve sites. Near the beautiful Shoshone River, private area. Heavy duty metal containers for food storage against bears. Fire pit and picnic table in each spot. Clean bathrooms.

We were visiting Yellowstone and camped here, just 15 or so minutes from the Northeasr entrance. It was early June and we did not have a reservation, but we almost has the place to ourselves. We were tent camping, but each site could be tent or RV.

it is a nice flat campground full of beautiful wildflowers and scrub bushes. Vault toilets which were super clean and drinking water from faucets outside the bathrooms.

Steel bear boxes at each campsight which I would suggest using as we saw a mmma Grizzly and two cubs not 15 minutes from camp as we entered Yellowstone.

We paid in the honor system as we never saw a sign of the camp hosts being present. We paid $10 a night with our senior pass

We didn't see much wildlife in camp, but there was evidence of them and a beautiful river runs behind the camp.

Wehave a great Big Agnes tent I would suggest that you secure your tent well, and use all guy lines . It was unbelievably windy and two other campers' tents were mangled when we arrived at the site, due to wind.

Although it is fairly close to the highway, it drops down into a small valley and we could not see or hear the cars going by.

This campground has pros and cons. It lacks trees, but has neat craggy rock formations surrounding it. There are both sites with and without RV hookups and a river flows past the campground. From the campground it's only about a 15 minute drive to the east gate of Yellowstone National Park. In the other direction, Cody, WY and its world-class museum are about a 45 minute drive.