Big Sandy Campground
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $7From, per site
- Sites
- 98 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (307) 367-4326.
What the agency tells you
Proper food storage is required in this campground. Please visit the Bridger-Teton National Forest website, http://www.fs.usda.gov/btnf/, for details on this forest regulation and other current information.
First come, First Served Sites
Coming with Atv's/ Utv's/ Dirtbikes? Be sure to purchase your Wyoming State ORV sticker!
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Garbage Service is NOT available, please "Pack it in, Pack it Out"
All pets must be leashed within Developed sites
14 Day Stay Limit
Quiet Hours 10pm-6am
No livestock allowed in campground, use the corrals at the trailhead
No drinking water available
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 9
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Around the campground
- Backpacking
- Climbing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Scenic drives
- Stargazing
- Wilderness access
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 14:24 UTC
recreation.gov lists 8 of the 9 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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 · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $7 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 · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 14:24 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
9 sites · the site map
All 9 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 9 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 9 of the 9 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Big Sandy | 1 | standard nonelectric | $7 | ||
| Big Sandy | 2 | standard nonelectric | $7 | ||
| Big Sandy | 3 | standard nonelectric | $7 | ||
| Big Sandy | 4 | standard nonelectric | $7 | ||
| Big Sandy | 5 | standard nonelectric | $7 | ||
| Big Sandy | 6 | standard nonelectric | $7 | ||
| Big Sandy | 7 | standard nonelectric | $7 | ||
| Big Sandy | 8 | standard nonelectric | $7 | ||
| Scan and Pay | Standard | type not stated | 196 ft | 162 ft | $7 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
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Blucher Creek CampgroundRock Springs Field Office · 11 mi
Sweetwater Guard Station CampgroundRock Springs Field Office · 14 miDickinson Creek CampgroundShoshone National Forest · 15 mi
Sweetwater Bridge CampgroundRock Springs Field Office · 16 miThe weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Boulder, WY
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Big Sandy 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 →