Green River Lakes - Bridger-Teton NF (WY)
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $12From, per site
- Sites
- 4241 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Green River Lakes Campground is located near the shores of beautiful Lower Green River Lake, at an elevation of 8,000 feet. The lake sits on the western edge of the rugged Wind River Range in Wyoming. Visitors enjoy hiking and backpacking into the adjacent Bridger Wilderness, as well as fishing and canoeing on the lake. Keep reading
Recreation
The lake is open to small watercraft only, making it an excellent location for canoeing and kayaking. A primitive, carry-down boat launch is located at the lakeshore. Anglers fish for brook, cutthroat, rainbow and mackinaw trout. Hiking and horseback riding into the Bridger Wilderness and Wind River Range are popular activities enjoyed by visitors to the area. Trails in the area include the Continental Divide Trail, Highline Trail and Lakeside Trail. A trailhead parking area, horse corral and water trough are just outside the campground.
Facilities
The campground contains three large-group campsites with picnic tables, food storage locker, campfire circles and grills. Sites A and B can accommodate up to 35 people each, and site C can accommodate up to 50 people. Vault toilets and drinking water are available. A campground host may be located on-site. Roads and parking spurs within the campground are dirt. Parking for the group sites are not designed for large RVs or trailers. 36 additional single sites are available within the campground, they are first come/first served. No reservations.
Natural Features
Square Top Mountain towers over scenic Green River Lakes. This unique peak is part of the Wind River Range and tops out at an elevation of 11,581 feet. Most campsites afford scenic views of the peak and the lake below. Lodgepole pines dot the campground, offering very limited shade. Wildlife and summer wildflowers are abundant in the area.
Nearby Attractions
Pinedale is the nearest full service community, and is located 50 miles south of the campground.
What the agency tells you
There are no electric, water or sewer site hookups at this campground
No extra vehicles are allowed
Off-road vehicles must be licensed in order to operate in the campground
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Click here for more information on the Bridger-Teton National Forest
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.
All pets must be leashed within developed sites
Drinkin water available July 1st-Sept 15th (Depending on weather)
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 42 · 3 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…site C can accommodate up to 50 people. Vault toilets and drinking water are available. A campground host…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…up to 50 people. Vault toilets and drinking water are available. A campground host may be located…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Swimming
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 13th darkest of 248 in WY
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 41 of the 42 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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $12 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
42 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 3 mapped sitesAll 42 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 3 of the 42 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. 42 of the 42 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| GREEN RIVER LAKES | A | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 178 ft | 1,332 ftGreen River | 162 ft | $35–$70 |
| GREEN RIVER LAKES | B | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 178 ft | 1,484 ftGreen River | 20 ft | $35–$70 |
| GREEN RIVER LAKES | C | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 187 ft | 1,469 ftGreen River | 185 ft | $35–$70 |
| Green River Lakes Campground | 1 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 10 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 11 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 12 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 13 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 14 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 15 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 16 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 17 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 18 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 19 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 2 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 20 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 21 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 22 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 23 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 24 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 25 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 26A | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 26B | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 27 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 28 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 29 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 3 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 30 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 31 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 32 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 33 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 34 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 35 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 36 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 37 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 4 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 5 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 6 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 7 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 8 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Green River Lakes Campground | 9 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $12 | |||
| Scan & Pay | S&P Site Type 0 | type not stated | 30 ft | $12–$70 |
25 of 42 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Green River Lake LodgeBridger National Forest · 0.2 miWhiskey Grove CampgroundBridger National Forest · 8.9 mi
Narrows CampgroundBridger National Forest · 15 mi
New Fork Lake Group CampgroundBridger National Forest · 17 miNew Fork Lake CampgroundBridger National Forest · 17 miTrails End CampgroundBridger National Forest · 22 miFrom Pinedale, drive 7 miles west on U.S. Highway 191. Turn north onto Wyoming Highway 352 and continue 25 miles to the forest boundary, where the pavement ends. Continue on the dirt road for 18 miles to the campground. While the dirt road to the campground is suitable for 2 wheel drive vehicles, weather can make this road impassable to all but 4 wheel drive vehicles, call the district office to inquire on road conditions.
The weather
the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Typical weather
Typical October night 19°F, day 48°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night -6°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
Green River Lakes - Bridger-Teton NF (WY) 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 →