Bureau of Land Management · Worland Field Office · WY
Middle Fork of the Powder River Campground
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
7,240 ftElevation
11 ftWater · Middle Fork Powder River
47.8 miSE of Worland, WY
61%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 19th darkest of 248 in WY
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Astride a blue-ribbon trout stream, this remote and picturesque campground features five camping sites with fire rings, restroom and drinking water. Use of the area is free with a 14-day limit on camping (as on all public lands). The Middle Fork of the Powder River Campground, located at an elevation of 7,500 feet, is open from May through September.
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…sites with fire rings, restroom and drinking water. Use of the area is free with a 14-day limit on…”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Wildlife viewing
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. 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.
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
The sign priceBureau of Land Management
The Bureau of Land Management publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
Stay limit14 Days
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
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
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: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Also near here
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Castle Gardens Scenic Area CampgroundWorland Field Office · 32 mi
Doyle Creek CampgroundBighorn National Forest · 35 mi
Leigh Creek CampgroundBighorn National Forest · 36 mi
Grave Springs CampgroundCasper Field Office · 9.1 miOutlaw Cave CampgroundBuffalo Field Office · 9.7 miBuffalo Creek CampgroundCasper Field Office · 10 miCastle Gardens Scenic Area CampgroundWorland Field Office · 32 miDoyle Creek CampgroundBighorn National Forest · 35 miLeigh Creek CampgroundBighorn National Forest · 36 miSource: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
This Afternoon62°Sunny
Tonight39°Mostly Clear
Sunday53°Sunny
Sunday Night34°Mostly Clear
NWS forecast for Kaycee, WY
Source: National Weather Service, RIW forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Middle Fork of the Powder River 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: 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.
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 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: Kaycee, WY, 26.3 mi WSW. Straight line.