Norris Campground
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Closed for want of money or people is a choice somebody made.Ask who decided →
- Right now
- ClosedThe agency’s own sentence, quoted below
- A night
- $25When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 112In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Norris has been closed to the public for five years and will remain closed for the foreseeable future. Due to Norris’ remote location, the park does not have the staffing required to effectively respond to emergency incidents (law enforcement, emergency medical services etc.) and facility maintenance and repairs. For this reason, we have removed it from Yellowstone’s website and publications.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - seasonal
- Drinking water
- Yes
Nothing to book until it reopens
Norris Campground will remain closed for the foreseeable future.
The closure above is the reading. We hold no availability snapshot for this campground, so there’s no thirty-night strip to draw under it.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
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We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
What the agency said · 1
Norris Campground will remain closed for the foreseeable future. Closed for the foreseeable future.
National Park Service · the source publishes no posting date
Open within 60 miles · 3
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
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- Bear Creek Campground and Picnic AreaBeaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest · 52 mi
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Canyon CampgroundYellowstone National Park · 10 mi
Madison CampgroundYellowstone National Park · 10 mi
Indian Creek Campground (WY)Yellowstone National Park · 11 mi
Mammoth Campground (Yellowstone)Yellowstone National Park · 16 mi
Tower Fall CampgroundYellowstone National Park · 18 mi
Bridge Bay CampgroundYellowstone National Park · 19 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Mammoth, WY
Typical weather
Typical October night 25°F, day 46°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 3°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 more
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
what threatens it · who answers for it · a letter you can send
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Norris 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 →
Who can change it · 4
Filed as maintenance from the agency’s own words “foreseeable future”. That reading is ours. The draft to the agency asks what closed Norris Campground, what reopening it would cost and what date they’re working towards. The draft to Congress asks them to put the same question in writing and to fund the answer.
- The office that runs itYellowstone National ParkNational Park Service unit
- The member who votes the moneyHarriet M. HagemanU.S. Representative · Wyoming, at-large
- Your senator, on the same appropriationCynthia M. LummisU.S. Senator · Wyoming
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJohn BarrassoU.S. Senator · Wyoming
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who found out at the gate, or a week before the trip. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks what remains to be done at Norris Campground, what it costs, and what date they’re working towards.
Subject Norris Campground: what it would take to reopen
To the National Park Service, Yellowstone National Park: I was planning to camp at Norris Campground in Wyoming and found it closed. The notice says: "Norris Campground will remain closed for the foreseeable future. Closed for the foreseeable future." (https://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/norrishscg.htm, read Oct 16, 2026) Could you tell me what work remains at Norris Campground, what it’s expected to cost, and what date you’re working towards? If the schedule depends on funding or staffing that hasn’t arrived, please say so plainly. That’s a thing the public can do something about, and we can’t help with a delay nobody tells us about. Sent about Norris Campground (Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming) via campanac.com
Asks them to find out what reopening Norris Campground would cost, and to treat the deferred-maintenance line as the thing that decides it.
Subject Norris Campground is closed (Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming)
Dear Harriet M. Hageman, I’m a constituent in Wyoming, at-large. I went to camp at Norris Campground, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming and found it closed. The notice says: "Norris Campground will remain closed for the foreseeable future. Closed for the foreseeable future." (https://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/norrishscg.htm, read Oct 16, 2026) That’s a maintenance closure, which makes it a budget question before it’s anything else. A campground doesn’t need this work because of bad luck. It needs it because the work was deferred until it couldn’t be deferred any longer. Please ask the National Park Service, in writing, what reopening Norris Campground would cost and where that work sits on their own list. And when their budget comes to a vote, treat the recreation and deferred-maintenance lines as the thing that decides whether these 112 campsites are open next season. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Norris Campground (Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming) via campanac.com
Asks them to find out what reopening Norris Campground would cost, and to treat the deferred-maintenance line as the thing that decides it.
Subject Norris Campground is closed (Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming)
Dear Cynthia M. Lummis, I’m a constituent in Wyoming. I went to camp at Norris Campground, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming and found it closed. The notice says: "Norris Campground will remain closed for the foreseeable future. Closed for the foreseeable future." (https://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/norrishscg.htm, read Oct 16, 2026) That’s a maintenance closure, which makes it a budget question before it’s anything else. A campground doesn’t need this work because of bad luck. It needs it because the work was deferred until it couldn’t be deferred any longer. Please ask the National Park Service, in writing, what reopening Norris Campground would cost and where that work sits on their own list. And when their budget comes to a vote, treat the recreation and deferred-maintenance lines as the thing that decides whether these 112 campsites are open next season. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Norris Campground (Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming) via campanac.com
Asks them to find out what reopening Norris Campground would cost, and to treat the deferred-maintenance line as the thing that decides it.
Subject Norris Campground is closed (Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming)
Dear John Barrasso, I’m a constituent in Wyoming. I went to camp at Norris Campground, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming and found it closed. The notice says: "Norris Campground will remain closed for the foreseeable future. Closed for the foreseeable future." (https://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/norrishscg.htm, read Oct 16, 2026) That’s a maintenance closure, which makes it a budget question before it’s anything else. A campground doesn’t need this work because of bad luck. It needs it because the work was deferred until it couldn’t be deferred any longer. Please ask the National Park Service, in writing, what reopening Norris Campground would cost and where that work sits on their own list. And when their budget comes to a vote, treat the recreation and deferred-maintenance lines as the thing that decides whether these 112 campsites are open next season. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Norris Campground (Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming) via campanac.com