Bureau of Land Management · Lander Field Office · WY

Big Atlantic Gulch Campground

First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.

This is how it should work.

Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$6From, per site
Drawn from the record · 8,040 ft · 25% tree cover · water within reach · Bortle 2 sky
8,040 ftElevation
646 ftWater · an unnamed stream
16.3 miS of Lander, WY
25%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 80th darkest of 248 in WY

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Big Atlantic Gulch Campground is in the South Pass area. It features 10 campsites, fire rings, garbage collection, water (weather permitting), picnic tables, vault toilets and can accommodate medium sized recreational vehicles. The site is ADA Accessible. There are seasonal closures and occasionally there is a host on site. Be aware, this is bear country! This is a fee site and typical use season is June 1 - October 31.

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets
“…(weather permitting), picnic tables, vault toilets and can accommodate medium sized recreational…”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

Biking
Fishing
Hiking
Hunting
Picnicking
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Nothing to book, just show up

One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $6 with nothing added. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.

recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.

BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe agency’s record
A night$6Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$12DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itBureau of Land Managementthe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 7

What you actually pay

The sign priceBureau of Land Management
A night, from$6
Night, Golden Age / Golden Access Passes accepted .$6
No reservations first come first serve.
Stay limit14 days
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$6
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$12

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($6), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.

How we know this receipt · 5

rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the phone number

The weather

the next four days

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today53°Sunny
Tonight37°Mostly Clear
Saturday58°Sunny
Saturday Night38°Mostly Clear

NWS forecast for Atlantic City, WY

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
Pass Creek6,172 acres · 7 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Little Popo Agie8,333 acres · 10 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Who answers for this land

Harriet Hageman, official portrait

Big Atlantic Gulch 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: Bureau of Land Management publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.
Cell signal: the BLM’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Atlantic City, WY, 0.1 mi NE (a census designated place). Straight line.