Half Moon Lake Campground
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- A night
- $12From, per site
- Sites
- 1817 on recreation.gov
- Season
- June 1Opens June 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Half Moon Lake campground is situated just off the northeast shore of Half Moon Lake at an elevation of 7,600 feet in the Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming. Keep reading
Recreation
This lake provides many recreational activities. Anglers enjoy fishing for rainbow trout, brown trout, lake trout and other various species of fish native to the area. Visitors also enjoy water sports such as boating, swimming, canoeing and paddle boarding. Two miles down the gravel road is an excellent hiking trail for users of all abilities.
Facilities
This campground offers 17 sites; three of these provide direct lake access. Each site is well screened by willows and equipped with a picnic table and a fire ring. There are two vault toilets within the campground. Approximately 1/2 mile down the main road is the boat launch site, with a dock and additional vault toilets. No drinking water is available. Proper food storage is required.
Natural Features
Half Moon Lake was created by glacial movements and is now surrounded by the foot hills of the Wind River Mountains. Along the lakeshore and the hillsides you will find lodgepole pine, Douglas-fir and aspen stands interspersed with sagebrush and rocky outcroppings.
Nearby Attractions
The Museum of the Mountain Man, located in Pinedale, features a large collection of Rocky Mountain fur trade artifacts, Native American displays, as well as history of the settlement of Sublette County. In July look for the annual Green River Rendezvous. For more information please see the Sublette County Chamber of Commerce or pinedaleonline.com.
What the agency tells you
Proper food storage is required in this campground. Please visit the Bridger-Teton National Forest website, http://www.fs.usda.gov/btnf/, for details on this forest regulation and other current information.
First-come, first-served sites are available within this campground.
Coming with ATVs? Be sure to purchase your Wyoming ORV decal or ATV license.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
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.
Garbage service is NOT available, please "Pack it in, Pack it out"
All pets must be leashed within developed sites
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 18
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…table and a fire ring. There are two vault toilets within the campground. Approximately 1/2 mile down…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…a dock and additional vault toilets. No drinking water is available. Proper food storage is required.…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Biking
- Boating
- Climbing
- Hiking
- Water sports
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 17 of the 18 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 · 12
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
18 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 11 mapped sitesAll 18 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. 17 of the 18 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.
| HALF MOON LAKE CAMPGROUND | 01 | standard nonelectric | $12 | ||
| HALF MOON LAKE CAMPGROUND | 02 | standard nonelectric | $12 | ||
| HALF MOON LAKE CAMPGROUND | 03 | standard nonelectric | $12 | ||
| HALF MOON LAKE CAMPGROUND | 04 | standard nonelectric | $12 | ||
| HALF MOON LAKE CAMPGROUND | 05 | standard nonelectric | $12 | ||
| HALF MOON LAKE CAMPGROUND | 06 | standard nonelectric | 159 ft | 110 ft | $12 |
| HALF MOON LAKE CAMPGROUND | 07 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 245 ft | $12 |
| HALF MOON LAKE CAMPGROUND | 08 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 242 ft | $12 |
| HALF MOON LAKE CAMPGROUND | 09 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 321 ft | $12 |
| HALF MOON LAKE CAMPGROUND | 10 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 386 ft | $12 |
| HALF MOON LAKE CAMPGROUND | 11 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 191 ft | $12 |
| HALF MOON LAKE CAMPGROUND | 12 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 179 ft | $12 |
| HALF MOON LAKE CAMPGROUND | 13 | standard nonelectric | 66 ft | 87 ft | $12 |
| HALF MOON LAKE CAMPGROUND | 14 | standard nonelectric | 66 ft | 144 ft | $12 |
| HALF MOON LAKE CAMPGROUND | 15 | standard nonelectric | $12 | ||
| HALF MOON LAKE CAMPGROUND | 16 | standard nonelectric | 82 ft | 294 ft | $12 |
| HALF MOON LAKE CAMPGROUND | 17 | standard nonelectric | 82 ft | 335 ft | $12 |
| 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
Fremont LakeBridger National Forest · 1.8 miTrails End CampgroundBridger National Forest · 4.7 miNorth Boulder Lake CampgroundPinedale Field Office · 7.2 miWillow Lake CampgroundBridger National Forest · 8.0 miStokes Crossing CampgroundPinedale Field Office · 8.4 miBoulder Lake CampgroundBridger National Forest · 9.1 miTo reach the campground from Pinedale, drive to the east side of town and turn northeast onto the Fremont Lake road, passing the Pinedale Ranger District Office. Continue straight on the main road for approximately 10 miles to Half Moon Lake Road. Turn right onto road and continue for approximately two miles to campground access road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Pinedale, WY
Typical weather
Typical June night 38°F, day 71°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical June night 38°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
Half Moon Lake 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 →