Lost Cabin Campground
1Heads up1 fire 44 mi away
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $18.50From, per site
- Sites
- 19All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lost Cabin Campground is located 29 miles west of Buffalo, Wyoming on the east 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 Scenic off-road driving is available on nearby Elgin Park, Pole Creek and Crazy Woman Canyon Roads. Hiking and mountain biking are allowed on these roads as well. Many additional hiking trails are available in the Cloud Peak Wilderness. A short trail leads from the campground to a scenic creek below. Keep reading
Facilities
The campground offers several 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 is situated on a hillside above Highway 16. A dense forest of lodgepole pine covers the area and North Fork Creek flows nearby. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (307) 431-7446.
Nearby Attractions
Meadowlark Lake is 20 minutes west of the campground, and Tie Hack Reservoir is 20 minutes north. Both lakes are great locations for canoeing and fishing. 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 This old fire lookout was built by the CCC decades ago and is no longer active.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. South Fork Lodge is 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
The administering organization reserves the right to substitute sites without prior notice
This campground allows 14-day stays; however, a move out of the campground for 14 days is required before a second 14-day stay can be reserved.
Reservations must be made at least 3 days in advance.
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Two non-towed vehicles allowed per site. The first vehicle is included in the basic fee; the second vehicle will be charged an extra $9.00 fee at the campground.
Firewood bundles can be purchased from the campground host.
Site # 7 is a double site. The double site fee (1-16 people) is $34.00 for two non-towed vehicles with trailers per site per day; an extra cars, including what it tows, are free.
Click here for more information on the Bighorn National Forest
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
- 19 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 90 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
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 102nd darkest of 248 in WY
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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 · 22
What you actually pay
“the second vehicle will be charged an extra $9.00/day fee at the campground.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
“an extra car, including what it tows, is an additional $9.00/day.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $18.50 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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
19 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 19 mapped sitesAll 19 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. 19 of the 19 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| LOST CABIN | 001 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 83 ft | 1,161 ft | $18.50 |
| LOST CABIN | 002 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 83 ft | 1,124 ft | $18.50 |
| LOST CABIN | 003 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 105 ft | 1,118 ft | $18.50 |
| LOST CABIN | 004 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 105 ft | 1,030 ft | $18.50 |
| LOST CABIN | 005 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 127 ft | 1,156 ft | $18.50 |
| LOST CABIN | 006 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 107 ft | 1,283 ft | $18.50 |
| LOST CABIN | 007 | group standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 91 ft | 1,296 ft | $37 |
| LOST CABIN | 008 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 91 ft | 1,249 ft | $18.50 |
| LOST CABIN | 009 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 102 ft | 1,282 ft | $18.50 |
| LOST CABIN | 010 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 102 ft | 1,366 ft | $18.50 |
| LOST CABIN | 011 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 95 ft | 1,425 ftNorth Fork Crazy Woman Creek | $18.50 |
| LOST CABIN | 012 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 95 ft | 1,426 ft | $18.50 |
| LOST CABIN | 013 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 114 ft | 1,382 ftNorth Fork Crazy Woman Creek | $18.50 |
| LOST CABIN | 014 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 123 ft | 1,456 ftNorth Fork Crazy Woman Creek | $18.50 |
| LOST CABIN | 015 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 85 ft | 1,463 ftNorth Fork Crazy Woman Creek | $18.50 |
| LOST CABIN | 016 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 85 ft | 1,547 ftNorth Fork Crazy Woman Creek | $18.50 |
| LOST CABIN | 017 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 83 ft | 1,431 ft | $18.50 |
| LOST CABIN | 018 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 83 ft | 1,355 ft | $18.50 |
| LOST CABIN | 019 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 102 ft | 1,258 ft | $18.50 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Muddy Guard CabinBighorn National Forest · 2.2 mi
Pole Creek CabinBighorn National Forest · 3.2 mi
Sheep Mountain Fire LookoutBighorn National Forest · 3.8 mi
Doyle Creek CampgroundBighorn National Forest · 5.5 mi
South Fork (Wyoming)Bighorn National Forest · 9.1 mi
Tie HackBighorn National Forest · 9.3 miFrom Buffalo, Wyoming, take U.S. Highway 16 southwest about 27 miles.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Buffalo, 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
Lost Cabin 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 →