Buckboard Crossing
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $33–$45Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 5958 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Buckboard Crossing Campground is located on the far northwest shore of Flaming Gorge Reservoir at an elevation of 6,100 feet. Boating, fishing and water skiing are popular activities. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing, boating, canoeing, water skiing and swimming are popular activities on the lake. Campers are offered the convenience of an adjacent boat ramp, marina and fish cleaning station. Buckboard Marina has boat rentals, fuel, slips, fishing licenses, bait and groceries.
Facilities
The campground consists of 66 single-family campsites, most of which can be reserved. Several sites in Loop A have electrical hookups. Most sites have a shade cabana, picnic table and campfire ring. Some sites have grills and/or fire rings. Flush toilets, drinking water and showers are provided. Non-campers can use the shower facilities for a small fee. A dump station is located on-site.
Natural Features
The campground is situated in a high desert landscape with sagebrush and a few scattered trees. Natural shade is minimal. Typical weather ranges from warm days to cool nights.
Nearby Attractions
Flaming Gorge Dam offers guided tours of the working hydroelectric plant and the dam itself; The adjacent visitor center contains area history exhibits. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (801) 226-3564.
What the agency tells you
This is Buckboard Crossing on the Ashley National Forest in Wyoming; is this the campground you are requesting?
CHECK IN: Begins at 2 PM. CHECK OUT: By 11 AM.
The single site fee covers the cost of 1 vehicle. Each single site's maximum capacity is 2 vehicles. There will be an extra vehicle fee for the second vehicle collected on site. 2 vehicles = 1 sleeping unit (trailer, pop-up, pickup camper, RV, etc) + 1 passenger vehicle or 2 passenger vehicles. There is not room for 2 sleeping units.
Everything else this campground posts · 6
This campground has first come, first served sites. There is no guarantee a site of this type will be available.
Fee required for dump station use.
Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pests in our national forests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only.
Click here to learn more about the Ashley National Forest
Customer Service Please Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Ashley.Lucerne@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 59
- Hookups
- 7 electric
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…sites have grills and/or fire rings. Flush toilets, drinking water and showers are provided.…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Flush toilets, drinking water and showers are provided.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…grills and/or fire rings. Flush toilets, drinking water and showers are provided. Non-campers can use the…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake
- Boating
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 215th darkest of 248 in WY
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 58 of the 59 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
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 · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $33–$45 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
59 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 58 mapped sitesAll 59 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 59 of the 59 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. 59 of the 59 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | 1 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 57 ft | 821 ft | 229 ft | $33 | |
| A | 11 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 73 ft | 799 ft | 184 ft | $33 | |
| A | 12 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 73 ft | 865 ft | 210 ft | $33 | |
| A | 13 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 76 ft | 800 ft | 258 ft | $33 | |
| A | 15 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 123 ft | 910 ft | 336 ft | $33 | |
| A | 16 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 1,027 ft | 338 ft | $45 |
| A | 17 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 56 ft | 979 ft | 269 ft | $33 | |
| A | 19 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 56 ft | 961 ft | 215 ft | $33 | |
| A | 2 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 57 ft | 771 ft | 223 ft | $33 | |
| A | 20 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 1,046 ft | 238 ft | $45 |
| A | 21 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 70 ft | 951 ft | 144 ft | $33 | |
| A | 22 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 1,033 ft | 193 ft | $45 |
| A | 23 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 63 ft | 952 ft | 97 ft | $33 | |
| A | 24 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 1,059 ft | 191 ft | $45 |
| A | 25 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 63 ft | 948 ft | 77 ft | $33 | |
| A | 26 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 1,035 ft | 165 ft | $45 |
| A | 27 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 65 ft | 945 ft | 101 ft | $33 | |
| A | 29 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 86 ft | 954 ft | 175 ft | $33 | |
| A | 3 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 58 ft | 839 ft | 147 ft | $33 | |
| A | 30 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 1,039 ft | 223 ft | $45 |
| A | 32 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 1,030 ft | 289 ft | $45 |
| A | 33 | type not stated | 30 ft | 50 amp | 1,432 ft | 634 ft | $36 | |
| A | 5 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 58 ft | 849 ft | 89 ft | $33 | |
| A | 7 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 85 ft | 779 ft | 93 ft | $33 | |
| A | 8 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 91 ft | 862 ft | 73 ft | $33 | |
| A | 9 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 76 ft | 773 ft | 135 ft | $33 | |
| B | 1 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 82 ft | 1,264 ft | 470 ft | $33 | |
| B | 10 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 66 ft | 1,283 ft | 424 ft | $33 | |
| B | 11 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 74 ft | 1,194 ft | 339 ft | $33 | |
| B | 12 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 78 ft | 1,273 ft | 434 ft | $33 | |
| B | 13 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 90 ft | 1,188 ft | 366 ft | $33 | |
| B | 14 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 56 ft | 1,285 ft | 487 ft | $33 | |
| B | 15 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 56 ft | 1,317 ft | 499 ft | $33 | |
| B | 16 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 39 ft | 1,266 ft | 571 ft | $33 | |
| B | 17 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 39 ft | 1,274 ft | 580 ft | $33 | |
| B | 18 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 58 ft | 1,274 ft | 612 ft | $33 | |
| B | 19 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 53 ft | 1,365 ft | 528 ft | $33 | |
| B | 2 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 53 ft | 1,244 ft | 412 ft | $33 | |
| B | 20 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 70 ft | 1,334 ft | 608 ft | $33 | |
| B | 21 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 51 ft | 1,376 ft | 518 ft | $33 | |
| B | 22 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 70 ft | 1,397 ft | 591 ft | $33 | |
| B | 23 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 51 ft | 1,380 ft | 514 ft | $33 | |
| B | 24 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 65 ft | 1,461 ft | 591 ft | $33 | |
| B | 25 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 65 ft | 1,411 ft | 539 ft | $33 | |
| B | 26 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 72 ft | 1,487 ft | 616 ft | $33 | |
| B | 27 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 65 ft | 1,421 ft | 553 ft | $33 | |
| B | 28 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 74 ft | 1,494 ft | 628 ft | $33 | |
| B | 29 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 63 ft | 1,436 ft | 576 ft | $33 | |
| B | 3 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 71 ft | 1,333 ft | 481 ft | $33 | |
| B | 30 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 74 ft | 1,513 ft | 655 ft | $33 | |
| B | 31 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 50 ft | 1,435 ft | 588 ft | $33 | |
| B | 32 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 83 ft | 1,509 ft | 675 ft | $33 | |
| B | 33 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 74 ft | 1,432 ft | 634 ft | $33 | |
| B | 34 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 50 ft | 1,407 ft | 577 ft | $33 | |
| B | 4 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 53 ft | 1,237 ft | 386 ft | $33 | |
| B | 5 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 71 ft | 1,318 ft | 453 ft | $33 | |
| B | 6 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 75 ft | 1,230 ft | 365 ft | $33 | |
| B | 8 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 66 ft | 1,291 ft | 423 ft | $33 | |
| B | 9 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 74 ft | 1,211 ft | 342 ft | $33 |
25 of 59 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Firehole Canyon CampgroundAshley National Forest · 11 mi
Stateline Cove CampgroundAshley National Forest · 17 mi
Lucerne CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 18 miLittle Mountain North Dispersed Camping AreaRock Springs Field Office · 19 miAntelope Flat CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 20 mi
Antelope Flat (Ashley National Forest, UT)Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 20 miOn Highway 530, travel 25 miles south from Green River, Wyoming. Go 2 miles east on Forest Road 009 to the campground, adjacent to Buckboard Marina.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Green River, WY
Typical weather
Typical May night 37°F, day 67°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 37°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
Buckboard Crossing 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 →