New Fork Lake Group Campground
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
- Season
- June 1Opens June 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located just 24 miles north of Pinedale, New Fork Group Campground includes large picnic tables, BBQ stands, a fire ring, and a double vault toilet for your large party needs. Just a short hike away is New Fork Lake, which offers great boating, canoeing and swimming. Anglers fish for kokanee salmon, brook, lake and rainbow trout. A boat ramp is located approximately one mile from the group site. There is no drinking water available and proper food storage is required. Keep reading
Recreation
The 1,070-acre New Fork Lake offers great boating, canoeing and swimming. Anglers fish for kokanee salmon and brook, lake and rainbow trout. A large cement boat ramp is located a mile and a half from the campground, at the lake's northwestern shore. New Fork Trail, for hiking and horseback riding, begins at the entrance to the neighboring Narrows Campground (2.5 miles away). The trail provides back country access through New Fork Canyon into the Bridger Wilderness, and connects with several other trails. Horse corrals are located at the trailhead.
Facilities
The campground's large group site can accommodate up to 150 people, with picnic and serving tables, grills, two bear boxes for food storage, and a double vault toilet. Garbage service is located just outside of the group site on the main Forest Service road. Drinking water is not available.
Natural Features
The group site lies in a grassy meadow surrounded by lodgepole pine trees, which provide only very limited shade. As there is no traditional defined parking area, the group site allows for informal camping, gatherings and family affairs.
Nearby Attractions
Pinedale is 24 miles from the site and is the nearest full-service community.
What the agency tells you
There is no trash service, electric, water or sewer site hookups at this campground
Food Storage regulations exist on the Bridger-Teton National Forest
Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pests in our national forests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Proper permitting is required for Off-Highway-Vehicles
All pets must be leashed within developed sites
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…BBQ stands, a fire ring, and a double vault toilet for your large party needs. Just a short hike away…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…one mile from the group site. There is no drinking water available and proper food storage is required.…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Meadow
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 76th 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.
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Tell me when the season opens
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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 · 12
What you actually pay
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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
16 records
All 16 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 1 of the 16 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX1 | unnamed record | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX10 | unnamed record | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX11 | unnamed record | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX12 | unnamed record | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX13 | unnamed record | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX14 | unnamed record | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX15 | unnamed record | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX2 | unnamed record | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX3 | unnamed record | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX4 | unnamed record | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX5 | unnamed record | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX6 | unnamed record | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX7 | unnamed record | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX8 | unnamed record | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX9 | unnamed record | ||
| NEW | A | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $35 |
The agency files 15 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them 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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Narrows CampgroundBridger National Forest · 1.9 miWillow Lake CampgroundBridger National Forest · 7.2 miWarren Bridge CampgroundPinedale Field Office · 9.0 miTrails End CampgroundBridger National Forest · 12 miWhiskey Grove CampgroundBridger National Forest · 12 miFrom Pinedale, take U.S. Highway 191 northwest 6 miles. Turn north onto State Highway 352 and travel just over 14 miles. Turn east onto New Fork Lake Road, which is gravel, and travel almost 4 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cora, WY
Typical weather
Typical June night 32°F, day 68°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical June night 32°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
New Fork Lake Group 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 →