Deep Creek Campground, Medicine Bow-Routt
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 4711 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Deep Creek Campground is located near Sand Lake at an elevation just over 10,000 feet. The summers are cool and autumn is brief. Winter comes early and stays late. Campground facilities include 11 small campsites, one pull through site, picnic tables, toilets, drinking water, fire rings. This is a pack-it-in-pack-it-out campsite. No trash service in the area. For hiking, the Rock Creek Trail and Sheep Lake Trail are nearby. Crater Lake Trail provides a short hike to a beautiful lake. Boats must be carried a short distance to reach the lake. Keep reading
Recreation
The Snowy Range offers endless recreational activities for any kind of visitor. Specifically, the Snowy Range contains a network of hiking trails suitable for day hiking and for extended, backcountry trips. Additionally, Streams and over 100 lakes in the area provide a variety of challenging recreational-fishing opportunities in the area. Popular attractions near this campground include Silver Lake, Lake Marie Falls, Mirror Lake, Medicine Bow Peak Trail, French Creek Canyon Trail and Miners Cabin Trail. Winter activities in the area include snowshoeing and skiing. Mountain Biking Areas for Mountain Biking at Snowy Range Area • Bow River Campground • Deep Creek Campground • French Creek Campground • French Creek Canyon Trail • Keystone Cabins • Lake Owen Trailhead • Little Brooklyn Guard Station • Little Laramie Trailhead • North Fork Campground • Pinkham Mountain Trailhead • Rock Creek Trailhead • Sheep Lake Trailhead • Snow Survey Cabin • Spruce Mountain Fire Lookout • Tie Hack Lower Trailhead • Tie Hack Upper Trailhead • Tipple Trail Trailhead Mountain Climbing Areas for Mountain Climbing at Snowy Range Area • Lewis Lake Picnic Site • Libby Lake Picnic Site Day Hiking Areas for Day Hiking at Snowy Range Area • Brooklyn Lake Campground • Brush Creek Trails • Chimney Park Trailhead • Corner Mountain Trailhead • Crater Lake Trailhead • Deep Creek Campground • Deep Lake Trail • Dipper Lake Trail • French Creek Campground • French Creek Canyon Trail • Green Rock Parking Lot • Green Rock Picnic Site • Keystone Cabins • Lake Owen Trailhead • Lakes Trailhead • Lewis Lake Picnic Site • Libby Lake Picnic Site • Little Brooklyn Guard Station • Little Laramie Trailhead • Meadow Falls Trailhead • Miner's Cabin Trailhead • North Fork Campground • Platte River Wilderness • Quealy Lake Trailhead • Rock Creek Trailhead • Routt Access Trailhead • Ryan Park Campground • Savage Run Wilderness • Sheep Lake Trailhead • Silver Lake Campground • Silver Lake Trailhead • Six Mile Trailhead • Snow Survey Cabin • South Brush Creek Campground • Spruce Mountain Fire Lookout • Sugarloaf Campground • Tie Hack Lower Trailhead • Tie Hack Upper Trailhead • Tipple Trail Trailhead • West Lake Marie Backpacking Areas for Backpacking at Snowy Range Area • Crater Lake Trailhead • Deep Lake Trail • Dipper Lake Trail • Lakes Trailhead • Lewis Lake Picnic Site • Libby Lake Picnic Site • Platte River Wilderness • Quealy Lake Trailhead • Rock Creek Trailhead • Savage Run Wilderness • Sheep Lake Trailhead • Six Mile Trailhead Viewing Wildlife Areas for Viewing Wildlife at Snowy Range Area • Brooklyn Lake Campground • Keystone Cabins • Libby Flats Observation Site • Little Brooklyn Guard Station • Snow Survey Cabin • Spruce Mountain Fire Lookout • Tipple Trail Trailhead Natural Features Campground facilities include 11 small campsites, one pull through site, picnic tables, toilets, drinking water, fire rings. This is a pack-it-in-pack-it-out campsite. No trash service in the area.
Nearby Attractions
Deep Creek Campground is in close proximity to Sand Lake. Sand Lake is 92 acres in size with a maximum depth of 15 feet. Sand Lake is stocked by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD). The lake supports brook trout, rainbow trout and Splake (hybrid of a male brook trout and female lake trout). Use of live-bait fish is prohibited in lakes and streams within the Forest. For additional information on fishing regulations, contact the WGFD located in Cheyenne or Laramie Charges & Cancellations If I book this reservation today, what are my options to change or cancel? Please remember that reservations at these facilities prevent other visitors from using these sites. Planned changes to your stay should be made as far in advance as possible. You can make changes to your reservation ahead of your arrival date in My Reservations. Changes If your new stay dates are completely different from your original stay dates, there is a $10 change fee (per reserved site). There are no additional fees for: • Adding or removing nights to your stay. • Changing to a different campsite. Balances will adjust based on your new stay's nightly rate. Cancellations You can cancel the reservation any time before the date of your scheduled arrival. You will receive a refund for your stay, minus the following fees: • $10 cancellation fee • Any reservation fees (only if paid when booking) • Any previous change fees Late cancellation penalties may also apply: What is “Late”? For individual campsites, a late cancellation applies starting from midnight 1 calendar day before your scheduled check-in. For cabins and group sites, a late cancellation applies starting from midnight 14 calendar days or fewer before your scheduled check-in. Late Fee In addition to the fees listed above, a late cancellation will also subtract your first night's recreation use fee from any refund owed. As of the expected check-in day, cancellations or changes to your stay are not possible through My Reservations. It is at the facility's discretion to support additional Late Cancellations, No Show, or Early Departure updates – on-site personnel may not be able to assist. These changes carry penalties and may forfeit recreation use fees. For additional details, please visit here.
What the agency tells you
• 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. • 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 hookup services. • Maximum length of stay is 14 days. • Fires are only allowed in USFS approved metal fire rings. • Campsites are limited to 8 people and 2 vehicles per site. • Only 1 RV/trailer per RV campsite. • No RVs or camper trailers can park in parking spaces for walk-in tent campsites. These campsites and associated parking are for tent camping only. • Dogs must be on leash. • Quiet hours are 10:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. • You are responsible for reading the site descriptions and booking a site that will accommodate your equipment. • Check the elements -What is in the skies? Check the weather report before you leave home. When you arrive at the site, keep on eye on the skies for changes and, if possible, carry a compact weather radio. In inclement weather, take shelter until the bad weather passes. Stay dry - wet clothes contribute to heat loss. Also, keep sleeping bags and important gear dry at all times. -Are there forest or grassland alerts? Forest and grassland home pages post alerts you should know before you go. Many of our forests and grasslands also post alerts on Twitter. The latest fire information may be found on InciWeb. Survey your surroundings -Arrive early. Plan your trip so that you arrive at your actual campsite with enough daylight to check over the entire site and safely set up camp. -Check for potential hazards. Be sure to check the site thoroughly for glass, sharp objects, branches, large ant beds, poison ivy, bees, and hazardous terrain. -Avoid areas of natural hazards. Check the contour of the land and look for potential trouble spots due to rain or snow. Areas that could flood or become extremely muddy can pose a problem. -Inspect the site. Look for a level site with enough room to spread out all your gear. A site that has trees or shrubs on the side of prevailing winds will help block strong, unexpected gusts. -Pitch your tent in a safe spot. Make sure your tent is made of flame-retardant fabric, and keep it a safe distance away from campfires. Keep insects out of your tent by closing the entrance quickly when entering or leaving. -Build fires in a safe area. Your open fires and fuel-burning appliances must be far enough away from the tent to prevent ignition from sparks, flames, and heat. Never use a flame or any other heating device inside a tent. Check to know whether there are fire restrictions in place before starting a campfire. You could be fined if you start a fire in a restricted area. Be fire safe -Keep fires small and bring firewood purchased in the local area. Firewood brought from another area could also bring invasive pests. -If you have to collect firewood at your campsite, collect dead and down wood only. -Check at the local ranger station for current fire restrictions, which can change on a daily, sometimes hourly, basis. -Use existing fire rings. Scrape away litter and any other burnable material within a 10-foot-diameter surrounding the ring. -Make sure all wood fits inside the fire ring. Do not feed a large log into the fire ring. -Have a shovel, axe, and bucket of water available before lighting your campfire. -Never leave a campfire unattended, even for a few minutes or even if there are no flames present. Many wildfires start because of abandoned fires or because someone thought a fire was out. -Put out a campfire by slowly pouring water onto the fire and stirring with a shovel. Continue adding and stirring until all material is cool to touch. -Do not bury your fire. The coals can smolder and re-ignite. Be bear aware Being outdoors means being with wildlife. Many people never encounter a bear. But if you do, here's some simple advice: DO NOT RUN. *Remain calm. *Group together and pick up small children. *Continue to face the bear and back away slowly, talking calmly to identify yourself as a human. *If the bear continues to approach, try to scare it away by making yourself as large and imposing as possible by stretching your arms overhead and making loud noises. *Carry and know how to use bear spray, which is available at many outdoor retailers and can be used to deter a charging bear. Food Storage Bears are always searching for food. Bears are curious, intelligent animals that have great memories. Their eyesight is similar to humans and their sense of smell is seven times more powerful than a blood hound’s, enabling them to smell food from miles away. Those are the very traits that can sometimes get them – and us – into trouble. Most bears are wary of humans and try to avoid them. However, bears can learn to associate people with food and be tenacious in their pursuit of something to eat. Even if humans are around. Everyone in bear country must do our part to store food and other attractants in bear-resistant containers at all times, and dispose of trash in bear-resistant dumpsters.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 47
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Yes, the record doesn't say what kind
- “Campground facilities include 11 small campsites, one pull through site, picnic tables, toilets, drinking water, fire rings.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…through site, picnic tables, toilets, drinking water, fire rings. This is a pack-it-in-pack-it-out…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Meadow
- Backpacking
- Biking
- Birding
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Hunting
- Kayaking
- Mountain biking
- Off Highway Vehicle Trails
- Off Road Vehicle Trails
- Paddle Boating
- Picnicking
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:34 UTC
recreation.gov lists 11 of the 47 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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.
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
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.
“Changes If your new stay dates are completely different from your original stay dates, there is a $10 change fee (per reserved site). You will receive a refund for your stay, minus the following fees: • $10 cancellation fee • Any reservation fees (only if paid when booking) • Any previous change fees Late cancellati…” · this campground’s own no-show 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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:34 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
47 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 11 mapped sitesAll 47 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 11 of the 47 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. 47 of the 47 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| A | 001 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 835 ft | 699 ft | $20 |
| A | 001 1 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| A | 001 2 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| A | 001 3 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| A | 001 4 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| A | 001 5 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| A | 001 6 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| A | 002 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 825 ft | 742 ft | $20 |
| A | 002 1 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| A | 002 2 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| A | 002 3 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| A | 002 4 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| A | 002 5 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| A | 002 6 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| A | 003 | standard nonelectric | 111 ft | 717 ft | 732 ft | $20 |
| A | 004 | standard nonelectric | 111 ft | 716 ft | 833 ft | $20 |
| A | 004 1 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| A | 004 2 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| A | 004 3 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| A | 004 4 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| A | 004 5 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| A | 004 6 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| B | 005 | standard nonelectric | 163 ft | 864 ft | 993 ft | $20 |
| B | 005 1 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| B | 005 2 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| B | 005 3 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| B | 005 4 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| B | 005 5 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| B | 005 6 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| B | 006 | standard nonelectric | 153 ft | 760 ft | 1,121 ft | $20 |
| B | 007 | standard nonelectric | 128 ft | 724 ft | 1,236 ft | $20 |
| B | 007 1 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| B | 007 2 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| B | 007 3 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| B | 007 4 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| B | 007 5 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| B | 007 6 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| B | 008 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 897 ft | 1,418 ft | $20 |
| B | 009 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 830 ft | 1,327 ft | $20 |
| B | 010 | standard nonelectric | 127 ft | 928 ft | 1,291 ft | $20 |
| B | 011 | standard nonelectric | 130 ft | 853 ft | 842 ft | $20 |
| B | 011 1 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| B | 011 2 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| B | 011 3 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| B | 011 4 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| B | 011 5 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |||
| B | 011 6 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
25 of 47 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Brooklyn Lake CampgroundMedicine Bow National Forest · 6.0 mi
Bow River Campground (WY)Medicine Bow National Forest · 6.3 miBow River CampgroundMedicine Bow National Forest · 6.3 mi
Little Brooklyn Lake GuardMedicine Bow National Forest · 6.7 miNash Fork CampgroundMedicine Bow National Forest · 7.2 miFrom Saratoga take the Snowy Range Highway 20 miles, turn onto Forest Road 100 and continue 20 more miles to Forest Road 101. Turn onto Forest Road 101 for 10 miles to campground.
From Elk Mountain take Carbon County Road 101 south to the Forest Boundary. Continue on Road 101 for approximately 10 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Arlington, 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
Deep Creek Campground, Medicine Bow-Routt 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 →