Lakeview Bighorn
1Heads up1 fire 40 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 2019 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lakeview Campground is located on Meadowlark Lake about 50 miles east of Worland, Wyoming on the west side of scenic Cloud Peak Skyway, near the Cloud Peak Wilderness Area. The Bighorn National Forest offers a wide variety of activities, including hiking, fishing, scenic driving and a number of historic sites. The administering organization is Rustic Freedom / Gallatin Canyon Campgrounds; e-mail: support@rusticfreedom.com Recreation Meadowlark Lake covers 325 acres and is open to boating at a wake-less speed, making it a perfect location for canoeing and fishing. Keep reading
Anglers will find rainbow, cutthroat, brown and brook trout in the cool waters of the lake. Off-road vehicle trails, scenic jeep roads, hiking and additional fishing streams are available in the surrounding area. Diverse hikes vary from loop trails to treks along creeks and over mountain peaks; many trails access the Cloud Peak Wilderness.
Facilities
The campground offers single-family sites each equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring with grill. Accessible vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. The nearest dump station is 12 miles away on Powder River Pass.
Natural Features
The campground overlooks scenic Meadowlark Lake, which can be viewed from several sites. A forest of lodgepole pine and Douglas fir trees covers the campground. Many additional lakes and streams are found in the surrounding area. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (307) 431-7446.
Nearby Attractions
The High Park Lookout is located just east of Meadowlark Lake. This old fire lookout was built by the CCC decades ago and is no longer active. A short hike leads to the lookout, where hikers are awarded panoramic views of the surrounding area. West Tensleep Lake is about 10 miles north of Meadowlark Lake and is open to non-motorized craft only. The popular West Tensleep Lake Trail begins here and leads into the Cloud Peak Wilderness. Deer Haven Lodge and Meadowlark Lodge are nearby, offering dining options, lodging, guided horseback riding and fishing and camping supplies.
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
Two non-towed vehicles allowed per site. The first vehicle is included in the basic fee; the second vehicle will be charged an extra $10.00 fee at the campground.
Firewood may be purchased from the campground host.
Site #10 is a double site. The double site fee (1-16 people) is $36.00 for two non-towed vehicles with trailers per site per day; extra cars (limit of 2) are free.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
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
- 20 · 8 tent-only, 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 70 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and campfire ring with grill. Accessible vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…with grill. Accessible vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. The nearest dump…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Store
- Nearby
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hotel/Lodge/Resort Privately Owned
- Kayaking
- Non-Motorized Boating
- Off Road Vehicle Trails
- Picnicking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 55th darkest of 248 in WY
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 19 of the 20 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 · 23
What you actually pay
“the second vehicle will be charged an extra $10.00/day fee at the campground.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
“an extra car, including what it tows, is an additional $10.00.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
26 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 19 mapped sitesAll 26 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 21 of the 26 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. 20 of the 26 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.
| LAKE | 001 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 73 ft | 684 ft | 575 ft | $20 |
| LAKE | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 73 ft | 723 ft | 644 ft | $20 |
| LAKE | 003 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 206 ft | 824 ft | 859 ft | $20 |
| LAKE | 004 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 66 ft | 750 ft | 1,023 ft | $20 |
| LAKE | 005 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 66 ft | 747 ft | 1,086 ft | $20 |
| LAKE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 82 ft | 752 ft | 1,166 ft | $20 |
| LAKE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 79 ft | 643 ft | 659 ft | $20 |
| LAKE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 79 ft | 577 ft | 637 ft | $20 |
| LAKE | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 98 ft | 505 ft | 628 ft | $20 |
| LAKE | 010 | group standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 139 ft | 383 ft | 591 ft | $40 |
| LAKE | 011 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 106 ft | 383 ft | 444 ft | $20 |
| LOWR | 012 Host | host pad | 30 ft | 450 ft | 404 ft | $20 | |
| LOWR | 013 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 106 ft | 450 ft | 404 ft | $20 |
| LOWR | 014 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 56 ft | 401 ftEast Tensleep Creek | 113 ft | $20 |
| LOWR | 015 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 56 ft | 345 ftEast Tensleep Creek | 147 ft | $20 |
| LOWR | 016 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 104 ft | 243 ftEast Tensleep Creek | 234 ft | $20 |
| LOWR | 017 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 94 ft | 379 ft | 84 ft | $20 |
| LOWR | 018 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 78 ft | 292 ft | 132 ft | $20 |
| LOWR | 019 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 78 ft | 237 ft | 209 ft | $20 |
| LOWR | 020 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 81 ft | 227 ft | 287 ft | $20 |
| MANAGEMENT | 016 | type not stated | 239 ftEast Tensleep Creek | 207 ft | $20 | ||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX | unnamed record | 30 ft | $20 | |||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX2 | unnamed record | $20 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX3 | unnamed record | $20 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX4 | unnamed record | $20 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT | XXX5 | unnamed record | $20 |
The agency files 6 more records here that aren’t sites for the night: 1 it names a host pad and 5 it types MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 26 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lake View CampgroundBighorn National Forest · 0.0 mi
Sitting BullBighorn National Forest · 0.6 mi
Willow ParkBighorn National Forest · 1.1 mi
Boulder Park CampgroundBighorn National Forest · 2.0 mi
Island Park CampgroundBighorn National Forest · 2.2 mi
Deer Park CampgroundBighorn National Forest · 4.6 miFrom Worland, Wyoming, take U.S. Highway 16 east for 52 miles.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Ten Sleep, 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
Lakeview Bighorn 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 →