Bald Mountain Campground
1Heads up1 fire 32 mi away
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $18.50From, per site
- Sites
- 15All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Bald Mountain Campground is located along the Medicine Wheel Passage Scenic Byway (U.S. Highway 14A), 33 miles east of Lovell, Wyoming. The Medicine Wheel National Historic Landmark is nearby. Visitors enjoy the area for its scenic natural beauty and recreational opportunities. The administering organization is Rustic Freedom/Gallatin Canyon Campgrounds; e-mail: support@rusticfreedom.com Recreation From the area's historic mining sites to the ancient Native American Medicine Wheel, to hiking through open meadows and along the cliffs on the west rim of the mountains, the Bighorn National Forest offers many recreational opportunities. Jaws Trailhead is near the campground, offering access to Bucking Mule Falls Trail and Porcupine Creek. Scenic off-road driving is available on Hunt Mountain Road or Burgess Overlook jeep trail. Keep reading
Facilities
The campground offers single-family sites, each with a picnic table and campfire ring with grill. Accessible vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. The nearest dump station is 25 miles east at Burgess Junction Natural Features Bald Mountain is part of the Bighorn Range in northern Wyoming. A forest of pine and aspen covers the campground, which sits near top of the mountain at an elevation of 9,200 feet. Small creeks wind through the campground and temperatures can drop significantly once the sun goes down.
Nearby Attractions
The Medicine Wheel National Historic Landmark is 4 miles from the campground. This unique geoglyph signifies all creation, all races of people, birds, fish, animals, trees and stones. According to tribal beliefs, the circular shape of the wheel represents the earth, sun, moon, cycles of life, seasons and day to night. High Country Lodge is nearby, offering guided horseback riding and backcountry pack trips, off-road vehicle rentals and guided fishing trips. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (307) 431-7446.
Charges & Cancellations
Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This cancellation processing fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
What the agency tells you
The administering organization reserves the right to substitute sites without prior notice. Groups are advised to call 307-431-7446 for assistance in selecting a group site; sites 11 & 12 share a spur as do sites 14 & 15. Space is limited; no more than one 8x10' tent per site.
Two non-towed vehicles allowed per site. The first vehicle is included in the basic fee; the second vehicle will be charged an extra $10.00 fee (includes tax) at the campground.
Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing organisms by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org. Firewood bundles may be purchased from the campground host.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 15
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 80 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and campfire ring with grill. Accessible vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…with grill. Accessible vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. The nearest dump…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Store
- Nearby
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek, Meadow
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Off Highway Vehicle Trails
- Off Road Vehicle Trails
- Scenic drives
- Night sky · 93rd darkest of 248 in WY
- Bortle 2
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.
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What you actually pay
“the second vehicle will be charged an extra $10.00/day (includes taxes) at the campground.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $18.50 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.
“Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee.” · this campground’s own terms
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 · 7
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
15 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 15 mapped sitesAll 15 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. 15 of the 15 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| BALD | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 94 ft | 3,872 ft | $18.50 |
| BALD | 002 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 94 ft | 3,797 ft | $18.50 |
| BALD | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 96 ft | 3,938 ft | $18.50 |
| BALD | 004 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 66 ft | 3,753 ft | $18.50 |
| BALD | 005 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 66 ft | 3,744 ft | $18.50 |
| BALD | 006 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 64 ft | 3,962 ft | $18.50 |
| BALD | 007 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 64 ft | 4,018 ft | $18.50 |
| BALD | 008 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 79 ft | 3,903 ft | $18.50 |
| BALD | 009 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 79 ft | 3,827 ft | $18.50 |
| BALD | 010 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 38 ft | 3,777 ft | $18.50 |
| BALD | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 38 ft | 3,765 ft | $18.50 |
| BALD | 012 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 56 ft | 3,739 ft | $18.50 |
| BALD | 013 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 66 ft | 3,723 ft | $18.50 |
| BALD | 014 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 48 ft | 3,751 ft | $18.50 |
| BALD | 015 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 48 ft | 3,726 ft | $18.50 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Porcupine Campground (WY)Bighorn National Forest · 1.8 mi
Five Springs Falls CampgroundCody Field Office · 5.4 miFive Springs Falls Upper CampgroundCody Field Office · 6.1 miCottonwood Creek CampgroundCody Field Office · 11 mi
North TongueBighorn National Forest · 16 mi
Pine Island Group AreaBighorn National Forest · 19 miFrom Lovell, Wyoming, take U.S. Highway 14A (not U.S. Highway 14) 33 miles east. The highway has a 10% grade; not recomended for RVs and motorhomes.
From Dayton, Wyoming, take U.S. Highway 14/14A west 73 miles via Burgess Junction. This is the recommended route for RVs and motorhomes.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Shell, WY
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Bald Mountain Campground 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 →