Doyle Creek Campground
1Heads up1 fire 48 mi away
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $18.50From, per site
- Sites
- 18All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Doyle Creek Campground is located 30 miles west of Buffalo, Wyoming, on the east side of scenic Cloud Peak Skyway, near the Cloud Peak Wilderness area. Located in the Bighorn National Forest, visitors to the area enjoy a wide variety of activities, including hiking, fishing, scenic driving and a number of historic sites. The area offers excellent habitat for a wide variety of wildlife species. The administering organization is Rustic Freedom / Gallatin Canyon Campgrounds; e-mail: support@rusticfreedom.com Recreation Scenic off-highway driving is available on nearby Elgin Park, Pole Creek and Crazy Woman Canyon Roads. Hiking and mountain biking are allowed on these roads as well. ATV trails are adjacent to camp. Many additional hiking trails are available in the Cloud Peak Wilderness. Fishing is popular in the campground and nearby streams and lakes. Keep reading
Facilities
The campground offers several single-family sites each equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring with grill. Vault toilets, drinking water from a hand pump and trash collection are provided. The nearest dump station is 20 miles away on Powder River Pass.
Natural Features
Located at 8,100 feet in elevation, the campground is situated in a densely forested area of lodgepole pine. Campsites are located on a creek and meadow in a peaceful and remote setting. Temperatures can drop significantly once the sun goes down. Summer daytime temperatures range from the 60s-90s, with nighttime temperatures down to the 50s. June is sometimes rainy while the rest of the summer has fair, clear, sunny days. Thunderstorms and snowstorms can arise at any time. Autumn temperatures are cool with frosts by mid-September. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (307) 431-7446.
Nearby Attractions
Scenic driving on Cloud Peak Skyway.
Charges & Cancellations
Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This cancellation processing fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
What the agency tells you
The administering organization reserves the right to substitute sites without prior notice.
Reservations must be made at least four days in advance.
Two non-towed vehicles allowed per site. The first vehicle is included in the basic fee; the second vehicle will be charged an extra $9.00 fee at the campground.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Site 09 is a host site, and it is not available for campers.
Firewood may be purchased from the camp host.
Click here for more information on the Bighorn National Forest http://www.fs.usda.gov/bighorn
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.
Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 18 · 1 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 70 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 17 of 18 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…table and campfire ring with grill. Vault toilets, drinking water from a hand pump and trash…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…campfire ring with grill. Vault toilets, drinking water from a hand pump and trash collection are provided.…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Store
- Nearby
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Meadow
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Non-Motorized Boating
- Off Road Vehicle Trails
- Scenic drives
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 65th darkest of 248 in WY
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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 · 16
What you actually pay
“the second vehicle will be charged an extra $9.00/day fee at the campground.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $18.50 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.
“Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee.” · 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 · 7
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
19 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 18 mapped sitesAll 19 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 18 of the 19 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| DOYLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 01 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 97 ft | 134 ft | $18.50 |
| DOYLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 02 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 78 ft | 147 ft | $18.50 |
| DOYLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 03 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 78 ft | 172 ft | $18.50 |
| DOYLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 04 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 117 ft | 189 ft | $18.50 |
| DOYLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 05 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 117 ft | 222 ft | $18.50 |
| DOYLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 06 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 129 ft | 289 ft | $18.50 |
| DOYLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 07 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 139 ft | 294 ft | $18.50 |
| DOYLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 08 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 135 ft | 407 ft | $18.50 |
| DOYLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 09 Host | host pad | 45 ft | 537 ft | $18.50 | |
| DOYLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 10 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 159 ft | 633 ft | $18.50 |
| DOYLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 11 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 149 ft | 701 ft | $18.50 |
| DOYLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 12 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 148 ft | 565 ft | $18.50 |
| DOYLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 13 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 85 ft | 547 ft | $18.50 |
| DOYLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 14 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 76 ft | 470 ft | $18.50 |
| DOYLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 15 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 76 ft | 449 ft | $18.50 |
| DOYLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 16 | tent only nonelectric | 83 ft | 516 ft | $18.50 | |
| DOYLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 17 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 83 ft | 433 ft | $18.50 |
| DOYLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 18 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 108 ft | 402 ft | $18.50 |
| DOYLE CREEK CAMPGROUND | 19 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 108 ft | 332 ft | $18.50 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lost Cabin CampgroundBighorn National Forest · 5.5 mi
Muddy Guard CabinBighorn National Forest · 7.1 mi
Sheep Mountain Fire LookoutBighorn National Forest · 8.1 mi
Pole Creek CabinBighorn National Forest · 8.7 mi
Sitting BullBighorn National Forest · 13 mi
Lake View CampgroundBighorn National Forest · 13 miFrom Buffalo, WY, take US Hwy 16 west 24 miles to County Rt. 3 (Hazelton Road). Turn left onto Hazelton Rd., and go 6.2 miles to campground turn off. Turn left and go 0.3 miles.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Buffalo, 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
Doyle Creek 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 →