Bureau of Land Management · Casper Field Office · WY

Lodgepole Campground

1Heads up1 fire 24 mi away
Wildfire
Chalk Mountain fire · 24 mi away · 124 acres · 91% contained · updated Oct 6, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.

This is how it should work.

Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$7From, per site
8,230 ftElevation
1.4 miWater · Corral Creek
5.9 miSE of Casper, WY
0%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 247th darkest of 248 in WY

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Nestled under the pine trees of Muddy Mountain, Lodgepole Campground provides 15 camping sites that include level tent pads and fire rings, with a few pull-through sites for large trailers/RVs. Two double-vaulted toilets are provided for camper's comfort. Two trailheads provide access to Muddy Mountain's ADA accessible hiking trails linking campers to nearby Rim Campground and to over a mile of single track trails for hikers and assistive devices only. Potable water is available is quench your thirst after a day of fun.

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets
“…sites for large trailers/RVs. Two double-vaulted toilets are provided for camper's comfort. Two trailheads…”
Drinking water
Yes
“…for hikers and assistive devices only. Potable water is available is quench your thirst after a day of…”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

Hiking
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Nothing to book, just show up

One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $7 with nothing added. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.

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.

BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe agency’s record
A night$7Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$14DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itBureau of Land Managementthe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 8

What you actually pay

The sign priceBureau of Land Management
A night, from$7
Access Pass and Senior Pass Holders receive half off camping rates.
Cash or check is accepted.
Stay limit14 nights
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicleSee the note

“$7.00/night and $3.00/night for extra vehicle for camping.” · the Bureau of Land Management’s own fee record

What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$7
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$14

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($7), 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

rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the phone number

The weather

the next four days

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today55°Sunny
Tonight39°Mostly Clear
Sunday54°Sunny
Sunday Night37°Partly Cloudy

NWS forecast for Casper Mountain, WY

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Harriet Hageman, official portrait

Lodgepole 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: Bureau of Land Management 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: the number below is the only way to be sure.
Cell signal: the BLM’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: Casper Mountain, WY, 2.1 mi SSE (a census designated place). Straight line.