Alpine North Loop
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $20–$40Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 19All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Alpine North Loop Campground is located in beautiful Star Valley, Wyoming at an elevation of 5,640 feet. The cozy town of Alpine is just 2 miles west. Visitors enjoy boating and fishing on Palisades Reservoir, and day-tripping to Jackson and Grand Teton National Park. Keep reading
Recreation
Palisades Reservoir is very close, with excellent boating, water skiing, swimming and canoeing. Lake and shore fishing for wild and stocked cutthroat trout is very popular. Brown trout, Kokanee salmon and Mackinaw trout can also be found. Boat ramps are located 2 miles away in Alpine and about 10 miles away near Blowout Campground, off Highway 26. The Grey's River, Salt River and Snake River merge nearby, offering great fishing and wildlife viewing opportunities. The Palisades Creek Trail begins nearby, leading hikers, mountain bikers and horseback riders to beautiful Upper Palisades Lake and expansive views of Swan Valley.
Facilities
The campground offers three group sites that can accommodate up to 50 people each, with picnic tables and campfire rings with grills. Single and double sites are available as well, some have stairs from the parking spur to the site pad. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided, but there is no electricity. Roads and parking spurs within the site are gravel. Firewood is available for purchase from the host.
Natural Features
The campground is situated near Palisades Reservoir in a forest of lodgepole pines, which provide partial shade. The campground is relatively flat and some sites offer views of Star Valley. Summer wildflowers are abundant. Wind and summer thunderstorms should be expected.
Nearby Attractions
The town of Alpine is just 2 miles east. The popular Mountain Days Celebration is held annually in June, complete with arts and crafts shows, food, live music, a horseshoe tournament, authentic pioneer village and Native American dancers. Jackson, Wyoming is 40 miles north, with restaurants, shops, galleries and ski resorts with summer activities. Grand Teton National Park is approximately 55 miles north, with boating, fishing, hiking, canoeing and outstanding mountain scenery. The Snake River and Swan Valley offer more great fishing and boating, as well as rafting, canoeing and numerous trails for hiking, biking, horseback and ATV riding. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 351-1182.
What the agency tells you
Wildlife Caution
Idaho OHV Safety Message
ATVs/OHVs are not allowed, except for entering and exiting purposes only
Everything else this campground posts · 4
A $8 fee will be collected for each extra vehicle at the campground per day
Click here for more information on the Caribou-Targhee National Forest
Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pests in our national forests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Check-in Time is 2:00pm and Check-out time is 12:00pm
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 19 · 3 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…from the parking spur to the site pad. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided,…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…spur to the site pad. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided, but there is no…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 230th darkest of 248 in WY
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 26 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 16
What you actually pay
“A $8 fee will be collected for each extra vehicle at the campground per day” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$40 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
19 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 19 mapped sitesAll 19 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 19 of the 19 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| ALPI | 005 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 95 ft | 629 ftPalisades Reservoir | $20–$40 |
| ALPI | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 95 ft | 561 ftPalisades Reservoir | $20–$40 |
| ALPI | 008 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 120 ft | 427 ftPalisades Reservoir | $20–$40 |
| ALPINE NORTH LOOP | GS1 | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 490 ft | 407 ft | $60 |
| ALPINE NORTH LOOP | GS2 | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 153 ft | 495 ft | $60 |
| ALPINE NORTH LOOP | GS3 | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 242 ft | 272 ft | $60 |
| NSNG | 001 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 77 ft | 691 ftPalisades Reservoir | $20–$40 |
| NSNG | 002 | rv nonelectric | 77 ft | 715 ftPalisades Reservoir | $20 | |
| NSNG | 003 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 81 ft | 684 ftPalisades Reservoir | $20–$40 |
| NSNG | 004 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 81 ft | 608 ftPalisades Reservoir | $20–$40 |
| NSNG | 006 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 105 ft | 539 ftPalisades Reservoir | $20–$40 |
| NSNG | 009 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 135 ft | 275 ftPalisades Reservoir | $20–$40 |
| NSNG | 010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 93 ft | 395 ftPalisades Reservoir | $20–$40 |
| NSNG | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 102 ft | 312 ftPalisades Reservoir | $20–$40 |
| NSNG | 012 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 61 ft | 414 ftPalisades Reservoir | $20–$40 |
| NSNG | 013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 116 ft | 332 ftPalisades Reservoir | $20–$40 |
| NSNG | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 61 ft | 436 ftPalisades Reservoir | $20–$40 |
| NSNG | 015 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 99 ft | 494 ftPalisades Reservoir | $20–$40 |
| NSNG | 016 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 111 ft | 598 ftPalisades Reservoir | $20–$40 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Blowout CampgroundCaribou National Forest · 2.4 mi
McCoy Creek CampgroundCaribou National Forest · 3.1 miBlowout Campground5.1 mi
Little Cottonwood GroupTarghee National Forest · 5.3 mi
Jensen CabinCaribou National Forest · 5.9 miWolf Creek CampgroundTarghee National Forest · 7.0 miFrom Alpine, Wyoming, travel 2 miles west on Highway 26 to the campground entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Alpine Northwest, WY
Typical weather
Typical October night 29°F, day 59°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 11°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Alpine North Loop is in Wyoming’s at-large congressional district. Its representative, Harriet Hageman (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →