Brush Creek Work Center Barrack
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 28 of the next 30 nights read 16:28 UTC
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
The cabin offers an ideal winter playground, with a snowy landscape perfect for recreation. Snowmobiling, skiing and snowshoeing are popular activities. The Brush Creek Cross-Country Ski Trails are made up of loop trails winding through aspen, lodgepole pine stands and reclaimed clear-cuts. The frequency of trail grooming depends on weather conditions and equipment. Keep reading
Recreation
After the Wyoming Highway Department closes their gate for the winter the highway becomes a popular snowmobile trail. The Wyoming State Trails map shows over 300 miles of groomed and ungroomed trail. A new map is created each year. Other recreational opportunities in the area include cross country skiing on the trails behind the Barracks and sledding at the old Ryan Park Ski Area.
Facilities
This bi-level house can accommodate up to eight people comfortably in four bedrooms with a set of twin beds in each. The small living room has a TV, but reception is weak. The large kitchen and dining area is equipped with a refrigerator, stove, microwave, basic kitchen utensils and cooking supplies. Two bathrooms include showers and flush toilets. The house has electricity and heat. Guests should bring a few of their own supplies, including food, sleeping bags, pillows, towels, dish soap, extra toilet paper and garbage bags. Additional light sources should be brought for emergencies. All trash and food should be packed out, and guests are expected to clean the cabin before leaving.
Natural Features
The Snowy Range is aptly named. The Barracks, at 8,100 feet, receives early autumn snow and by Halloween the snow is beginning to accumulate. Eight miles up from the Barracks is the Highway 130 winter closure gate.
What the agency tells you
Please call the Brush Creek/Hayden Ranger District office at (307) 326-5258 prior to your stay to confirm key location for the house; the Forest Service office is not open evenings, weekends or federal holidays
Please be aware that we do not shovel the snow off the walkway or doors at this cabin. We do plow the parking area located around the cabin for easier access.
Please contact the Ranger District prior to arriving at the cabin to check on any restrictions or conditions, such as fire or road closures, weather or storms that may affect the quality of your visit
Everything else this campground posts · 8
Pets and livestock are not allowed at this facility
All garbage and food must be packed out
The house is a no-smoking facility
Please clean house upon departure
Make sure house is locked upon departure
Learn more about Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests
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.
Please be advised that this rental only fits 8 people, any more than 8 found, will be charged an extra.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 cabin
- Hookups
- 1 electric, 1 water, 1 sewer
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…Two bathrooms include showers and flush toilets. The house has electricity and heat. Guests should…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- Shower/Bath Type states a shower on all 1 of this campground's campsite records
- Playground
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Wildlife viewing
- Winter sports
Something open on 28 of the next 28 bookable nightsread 16:28 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
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 16:28 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 1 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. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| BRUSH CREEK | B01 | cabin electric | 576 ft | 354 ft | $200 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
South Brush Creek Campground (WY)Medicine Bow National Forest · 0.9 mi
Ryan ParkMedicine Bow National Forest · 1.7 mi
Lincoln Park Campground (WY)Medicine Bow National Forest · 2.3 miLincoln Park CampgroundMedicine Bow National Forest · 2.3 miBennett Peak CampgroundRawlins Field Office · 5.9 miBennett Creek CampgroundRawlins Field Office · 6.0 miFrom Saratoga, Wyoming, travel south on Highway 130 for 8 miles to the junction of Highway 130 and Highway 230. Turn east on Highway 130 and travel for 12 miles to the Brush Creek Work Center. Turn into the work center and park at the bi-level house. The driveway is plowed to the Brush Creek Barracks.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Ryan Park, WY
Typical weather
Typical October night 23°F, day 57°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 7°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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.
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
Brush Creek Work Center Barrack 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 →