Cazier Cabin
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:40 UTC
- Sites
- 21 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
Cazier Cabin is a historic Forest Service guard station built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933. Located near the Greys River about 46 miles from Alpine, Wyoming, the cabin offers fishing, hiking, horseback riding, mountain biking and cross-country skiing opportunities. In winter, access is by snowmobile on a groomed trail. Keep reading
Recreation
The Corral Creek Trail is easily accessed from the cabin and connects to Corral Creek Lake and the Swift, Dry and Cottonwood Creek drainages on the west side of the range. Popular activities include hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding and off-road vehicle riding on designated routes. In winter, cross country skiing is available right out the front door of the cabin. Greys River offers trout fishing.
Facilities
This rustic two-room guard station sleeps eight people on four bunkbeds with mattresses. Five additional guests may camp just outside the cabin.Drinking water, flush toilet and showers are available approximately mid-June to Labor Day. In winter, an outdoor vault toilet must be used. The cabin has a wood stove for heat. The kitchen comes with basic amenities including a sink, propane range top, propane refrigerator, a dining table and chairs. Cooking utensils and pots are not provided. Recommended items to bring include dishes, pots and pans, utensils, garbage bags, dish soap, dish rags, toilet paper, a flashlight, sleeping bags, pillows and cleaning products, such as bleach or disinfectant. In winter, guests must also bring drinking water.
Natural Features
The cabin sits in the valley of Greys River near Corral Creek at an elevation of 7,600 feet, and offers spectacular views up the Corral Creek drainage. The cabin sits in an open space with a few tall trees. A pine forest sweeps up the nearby mountain slopes.
Nearby Attractions
The cabin is rather remote. The closest town for groceries is in Alpine, a 46-mile drive north on a low-speed gravel road.
What the agency tells you
4-7 days prior to your reservation you will receive an e-mail with your cabin code, condition report and a rules and regulations page. Please read through the rules and regulations page carefully. Fill out and return the completed condition report to the Greys River Ranger District following your stay. If you have any questions please contact the District Office at any time Monday-Friday, 8 AM to 4:30 PM (excluding weekends and Federal Holidays) at 671 N. Washington, Afton, WY 83110 or by phone at (307)886-5300. Check in time is 2 pm, Check out time is 11 am.
Spring and fall access is not guaranteed and depends on weather and road conditions. Winter access is by snowmobile only on a groomed trail
Please bring garbage bags; this is a 'pack it in, pack it out' facility
Everything else this campground posts · 12
You are responsible for cleaning the cabin, please leave it at least as clean as you found it or better. No smoking is permitted within the cabins.
Limit 1 additional RV or trailer at the cabin
No cell phone coverage or electricity is available.
In the winter no water is available, bring plenty for drinking, cooking and cleaning.
Hay brought onto the Forest must be certified weed-free. Please remove any unused hay when you leave the cabin.
Public use stock corral is available, bring your own water bucket. Out-of-state horses must have current Coggins test
Off-road vehicles are allowed on designated trails only. A Wyoming ORV or snowmobile sticker is required for each vehicle. The permits and free Motor Vehicle Use Maps are available online, the District Office or Alpine Visitor Center in Alpine.
Bears frequent the area; keep all food out of sight in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle, making sure to leave nothing exposed.
Beware of poisonous chemicals used to control rodent population
Click here to learn more about the Bridger-Teton National Forest
Firewood at this location is for use at this cabin only. 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.
Fee changes are upcoming and in progress at this cabin. The rates are as follows. Summer- Peak Season: (May 1-Sept 30) - 2025: $50/ Night - 2026: $60/night - 2027-Future: $70/night Winter- (October 1- April 30) - 2025-2026: $50/night - 2026-2027: $50/night - 2027-Future: $60/night
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 2 · 1 cabin
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets
- “…just outside the cabin.Drinking water, flush toilet and showers are available approximately mid-June to… / …to Labor Day. In winter, an outdoor vault toilet must be used. The cabin has a wood stove for heat.…”
- Showers
- Seasonal Showers
- “Drinking water, flush toilet and showers are available approximately mid-June to Labor Day.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “Drinking water, flush toilet and showers are available approximately mid-June to Labor Day.”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
Full this Saturdayread 16:40 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBooked
The one site on offer is taken this Saturday, and on four midweek nights after it as well. read 16:40 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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 · 15
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 16:40 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
2 sites · the site map
All 2 sites
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 2 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| CAZIER CABIN | 001 | cabin nonelectric | 496 ft | $50 |
| Scan & Pay | S&P Site Type 0 | type not stated |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Cottonwood Group CampsiteBridger National Forest · 8.0 mi
Cottonwood Group Picnic SiteBridger National Forest · 8.1 miSacajawea CampgroundBridger National Forest · 8.1 miForest Park CampgroundBridger National Forest · 11 mi
La Barge Guard StationBridger National Forest · 11 miFrom Afton, WY, take Highway 89 north about 31 miles to Alpine, WY. At Alpine, turn right (south) onto Greys River Road (Forest Road 10138) and travel about 46 miles. The cabin is located on the right (west) side of the road. Access is along a low-speed gravel road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Smoot, WY
Typical weather
Typical October night 21°F, day 55°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night -3°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 · a letter you can send
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
Cazier Cabin 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 →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyHarriet M. HagemanU.S. Representative · Wyoming, at-large
- Your senator, on the same appropriationCynthia M. LummisU.S. Senator · Wyoming
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJohn BarrassoU.S. Senator · Wyoming
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Cazier Cabin, Bridger National Forest, Wyoming
Dear Harriet M. Hageman, I’m a constituent in Wyoming, at-large. I tried to camp at Cazier Cabin, Bridger National Forest, Wyoming, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 1 of the 2 campsites the agency files at Cazier Cabin, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Cazier Cabin keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Cazier Cabin. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Cazier Cabin (Bridger National Forest, Wyoming) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Cazier Cabin, Bridger National Forest, Wyoming
Dear Cynthia M. Lummis, I’m a constituent in Wyoming. I tried to camp at Cazier Cabin, Bridger National Forest, Wyoming, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 1 of the 2 campsites the agency files at Cazier Cabin, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Cazier Cabin keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Cazier Cabin. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Cazier Cabin (Bridger National Forest, Wyoming) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Cazier Cabin, Bridger National Forest, Wyoming
Dear John Barrasso, I’m a constituent in Wyoming. I tried to camp at Cazier Cabin, Bridger National Forest, Wyoming, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 1 of the 2 campsites the agency files at Cazier Cabin, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Cazier Cabin keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Cazier Cabin. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Cazier Cabin (Bridger National Forest, Wyoming) via campanac.com