National Park Service · Yellowstone National Park · WY

Bridge Bay Campground

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Alerts: National Park Service alerts API · Oct 17, 2026
ReservableBooking 6 months out; today unlocks April 16. Season not published.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$33From, per site
Sites
432All of them booked ahead
7,770 ftElevation
650 ftWater · Yellowstone Lake
33.6 miSE of West Yellowstone, MT
25%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 24th darkest of 248 in WY

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Bridge Bay Campground—elevation 7,800 feet (2377 m)—is located near Yellowstone Lake, one of the largest, high-elevation, fresh-water lakes in North America. Campers at Bridge Bay will enjoy spectacular views of the lake and the Absaroka Range rising above the lake's eastern shore. Yellowstone National Park Lodges provides reservations for this campground.

Source: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Flush Toilets - seasonal
Drinking water
Yes
Dump station
Yes
Source: National Park Service and agency records

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, Coast

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

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.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
A night$33Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$66DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itXanterra Travel CollectionA private concessionaire under permit from National Park Service (parent: The Anschutz Corporation)the operator link
Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 11

What you actually pay

The sign priceNational Park Service
A night, from$33
Nightly Fee$33
Hiker/bicyclist Nightly Fee$10
Group (1–19 People)$165
Group (20–29 People)$250
Group (30–39 People)$325
Group (40–49 People)$400
Group (50–60 People)$475
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$33
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$66

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($33), 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
Source: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 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 · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight25°Partly Cloudy
Saturday57°Mostly Sunny
Saturday Night29°Partly Cloudy
Sunday55°Mostly Sunny

NWS forecast for Mammoth, WY

Typical weather

Typical October night 22°F, day 46°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical February night 1°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

80°32°-10°

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.

Measured at: YELLOWSTONE LAKE, WY (USW00094173), 1 mile away and 65 ft higher

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

Watch
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystemmining, grazing · 11 mi

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

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 3, 2026

Who answers for this land

Harriet Hageman, official portrait

Bridge Bay 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: National Park Service 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 Park Service’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: Mammoth, WY, 32.2 mi SSE (a census designated place). Straight line.