U.S. Forest Service · Bighorn National Forest · WY
Lake View Campground
1Heads up1 fire 40 mi away
Wildfire
Pk fire · 40 mi away · 1,645 acres · 85% contained · updated Oct 11, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 11, 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
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $22From, per site
Photos · Sara Evans Kirol
8,550 ftElevation
537 ftWater · Tensleep Reservoir
25.3 miSW of Buffalo, WY
33%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 54th darkest of 248 in WY
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Lake View Campground is located on the northern shore of Meadowlark Lake. This area is ideal for trout fishing enthusiasts.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
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$22Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 8
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night, from$22
Night .$22
Limit 2 vehicles per site and 8 people per site. 14 reservable sites.
Double site (site #10): $44 for 1-16 people.
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 this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicle$10
“Additional vehicle $10.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$22
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$44
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($22), 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 · 6
Sign price: Derived by CAMPANAC from the U.S. Forest Service fee record: a stated per-night amount only · Sep 7, 2026
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
What this campground adds: The U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record and notices for this campground, quoted verbatim. An extra-vehicle charge is set locally and appears on no national schedule, so it’s never assumed. · Aug 24, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
Lakeview BighornBighorn National Forest · 0.0 mi
Sitting BullBighorn National Forest · 0.6 mi
Willow ParkBighorn National Forest · 1.2 mi
Boulder Park CampgroundBighorn National Forest · 2.0 mi
Island Park CampgroundBighorn National Forest · 2.2 mi
Deer Park CampgroundBighorn National Forest · 4.6 mi
Lakeview BighornBighorn National Forest · 0.0 miSitting BullBighorn National Forest · 0.6 miWillow ParkBighorn National Forest · 1.2 miBoulder Park CampgroundBighorn National Forest · 2.0 miIsland Park CampgroundBighorn National Forest · 2.2 miDeer Park CampgroundBighorn National Forest · 4.6 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Tonight30°Clear
Saturday62°Sunny
Saturday Night38°Partly Cloudy
Sunday54°Sunny
NWS forecast for Ten Sleep, WY
Source: National Weather Service, RIW forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
Roadless
Roadless
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026
Who answers for this land
Lake View 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 16, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
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: Ten Sleep, WY, 14.9 mi NE. Straight line.