U.S. Forest Service · Shoshone National Forest · WY

Horse Creek Campground

1Heads up1 fire 48 mi away
Wildfire
Monk fire · 48 mi away · 41 acres · updated Sep 29, 2026
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$20From, per site
Drawn from the record · 7,680 ft · 0% tree cover · Horse Creek within reach · Bortle 2 sky
7,680 ftElevation
52 ftWater · Horse Creek
54.4 miNW of Fort Washakie, WY
n/aTree cover · water-masked cell
Bortle 2Night sky · 50th darkest of 248 in WY

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

This campground hosts nine sites on Horse Creek. There is plentiful fishing in Horse Creek and other nearby streams. Stay limit is 16 days. Maximum spur 32 feet. This site is not accessible for those with mobility impairments. Picnic tables, fire rings, bear boxes, and garbage collection are available.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Bear boxes
Yes
Source: Stated in the agency description

Around the campground

On the water
Creek
Source: Stated in the agency description

Phone before you drive

recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
A night$20Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$40DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 5

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night, from$20
Night for single unit$20
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$20
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$40

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($20), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.

How we know this receipt · 5
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today62°Sunny
Tonight34°Partly Cloudy
Sunday57°Sunny
Sunday Night31°Mostly Clear

NWS forecast for Dubois, WY

Typical weather

Typical October night 26°F, day 56°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical February night 13°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°0°

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.

Measured at: DUBOIS, WY (USC00482715), 9 miles away and 725 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
Carson Lake4,264 acres · 6 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
East Dunoir3,175 acres · 7 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Telephone Draw21,122 acres · 7 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Who answers for this land

Harriet Hageman, official portrait

Horse 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Dubois, WY, 7.6 mi N. Straight line.