Brooklyn Lake Campground
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 2718 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices
In the agency’s own words
Adventurers love sleeping under the towering trees and night sky of the secluded Brooklyn Lake Campground in the mountains of southeastern Wyoming. Located eight miles northwest of Centennial, Wyoming, the facility is situated along a small, picturesque lake at an elevation of 10,500 feet. This campground will have a mix of reservation sites and first-come, first-served sites for the 2026 season. If you are not reserving your site, you may be able to pay for your campsite(s) by cash or check once you are at the campground. Modifications on reservations are not allowed for this site. This is due to limited capacity to update reservation placards when concerning last minute modifications as well as limited functionality with the modifications feature in recreation.gov which has only an ON or OFF toggle for site managers and no feature allowing modifications up until a certain time frame. Keep reading
Recreation
Popular activities include hiking, fishing and non-motorized boating. The 36-acre lake is a nice canoeing spot with calm water. Non-motorized boats are allowed on Brooklyn Lake with carry-down access for small recreational watercrafts. There is no boat ramp and trailered vessels cannot be used at this location. Fishing is good for brook trout. From the campground, hikers can access the Sheep Lake and Lost Lake Trails. Sheep Lake Trail also allows horseback riding.
Facilities
Brooklyn Lake Campground has 19 campsites, 5 of which can accomadate longer or trailered setups in a pull-through site. Sites are equiped with campfire rings and picnic tables. All sites have access to two water handpumps, two vault toilets, and trash collection. No electrical hook-ups, water hook-ups, or black water hook-ups are available. Handpump water is typically available in this campground from July to September. These dates may vary due to weather, well and/or pump maintenance, and water testing requirements. As such, we encourage you to bring your own water or call ahead.
Natural Features
The scenery at Brooklyn Lake can't be beat. Pine forests and grasslands surround the lake, and the snow-capped Browns Peak protrudes into the crisp, blue summer sky. The Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland encompass nearly 3 million acres from central and northeastern Wyoming to north-central Colorado. Black bear, bobcat, coyote, elk, mule deer and moose are just some of the many animals that inhabit these rich and diverse lands.
Nearby Attractions
Visitors can find many more outdoor opportunities in the surrounding national forests and grasslands, including hiking, biking, camping, horseback riding, fishing, hunting, sightseeing and winter sports.
Charges & Cancellations
Modifications on reservations are not allowed for this site. This is due to limited capacity to update reservation placards when concerning last minute modifications as well as limited functionality with the modifications feature in recreation.gov which has only an ON or OFF toggle for site managers and no feature allowing modifications up until a certain time frame.
What the agency tells you
Modifications on reservations are not allowed for this site. This is due to limited capacity to update reservation placards when concerning last minute modifications as well as limited functionality with the modifications feature in recreation.gov which has only an ON or OFF toggle for site managers and no feature allowing modifications up until a certain time frame.
Check-in time is after 2:00 p.m. on the first day of the reservation.
Check-out time is 1:00 p.m. on the last day of the reservation.
Everything else this campground posts · 11
If the reservation holder doesn't show up on the first day of the reservation, the campsite is released at check-in time (2 pm) the next day.
There are no electric, water, or sewer hookup services.
Maximum length of stay is 14 days.
Campfires at this site are only allowed in USFS approved metal fire rings.
Campsites are limited to 8 people and 2 vehicles per site.
Dogs must be on a leash.
Quiet hours are 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.
This is a high elevation facility; please use caution when traveling from lower elevations. Some visitors may need to acclimate at a lower elevation for at least one night prior to visiting this facility.
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.
You are responsible for reading the site descriptions and booking a site that will accommodate your equipment.
Please print off your reservation and display it on your vehicle's dash. Reservation receipt will double as a voucher for day use sites in the Medicine Bow National Forest for the reserved days.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 27
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- 4 of 6 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 18 of 27 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER (HAND PUMP) on 18 of 27 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 131st darkest of 248 in WY
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 18 of the 27 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
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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.
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, $20 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.
“Modifications on reservations are not allowed for this site. This is due to limited capacity to update reservation placards when concerning last minute modifications as well as limited functionality with the modifications feature in recreation.gov which has only an ON or OFF toggle for site managers and no feature a…” · 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
28 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 9 mapped sitesAll 28 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 16 of the 28 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. 27 of the 28 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| BROO | 01 | type not stated | Vault Toilets listed | $20 | |||
| BROO | 02 | standard nonelectric | 118 ft | 471 ft | 186 ft | $20 | |
| BROO | 03 | standard nonelectric | 118 ft | 374 ft | 72 ft | $20 | |
| BROO | 04 | standard nonelectric | 86 ft | 249 ft | 107 ft | $20 | |
| BROO | 05 | standard nonelectric | 86 ft | 209 ft | 96 ft | $20 | |
| BROO | 06 | standard nonelectric | 81 ft | 310 ft | 121 ft | $20 | |
| BROO | 07 | standard nonelectric | Vault Toilets listed | $20 | |||
| BROO | 08 | standard nonelectric | Vault Toilets listed | $20 | |||
| BROO | 09 | standard nonelectric | Vault Toilets listed | $20 | |||
| BROO | 10 | standard nonelectric | 81 ft | 373 ft | 189 ft | $20 | |
| BROO | 11 | standard nonelectric | 298 ft | 429 ft | 97 ft | $20 | |
| BROO | 12 | standard nonelectric | Vault Toilets listed | $20 | |||
| BROO | 13 | standard nonelectric | Vault Toilets listed | $20 | |||
| BROO | 14 | standard nonelectric | Vault Toilets listed | $20 | |||
| BROO | 15 | standard nonelectric | Vault Toilets listed | $20 | |||
| BROO | 16 | standard nonelectric | Vault Toilets listed | $20 | |||
| BROO | 17 | standard nonelectric | Vault Toilets listed | $20 | |||
| BROO | 18 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 468 ft | 175 ft | $20 | |
| BROO | 19 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 429 ft | 164 ft | $20 | |
| MANAGEMENT | 0001 | type not stated | 503 ft | 199 ft | $20 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 0011 | type not stated | $20 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | 0012 | type not stated | 560 ft | 103 ft | $20 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 0013 | type not stated | 631 ft | 162 ft | $20 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 0014 | type not stated | 650 ft | 173 ft | $20 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 0015 | type not stated | 615 ft | 198 ft | $20 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 0016 | type not stated | 616 ft | 175 ft | $20 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | 008 | type not stated | 277 ft | 184 ft | $20 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX | unnamed record | 99 ft | $20 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It types it MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 28 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Little Brooklyn Lake GuardMedicine Bow National Forest · 0.6 miNash Fork CampgroundMedicine Bow National Forest · 1.2 mi
Sugarloaf Campground (WY)Medicine Bow National Forest · 2.8 mi
North Fork (WY)Medicine Bow National Forest · 4.0 miLibby Creek Aspen CampgroundMedicine Bow National Forest · 5.9 mi
Deep Creek Campground, Medicine Bow-RouttMedicine Bow National Forest · 6.0 miThe campground is about 40 miles west of Laramie, Wyoming and 8 miles northwest of Centennial on State Highway 130. From Laramie, travel 37 miles west on 130 and turn onto Forest Road 317/Brooklyn Lake Road. Proceed northwest for 2 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Centennial, 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
Brooklyn Lake 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 →