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Pebble Creek Campground

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Alerts: National Park Service alerts API · Oct 17, 2026
ClosedPebble Creek Campground was significantly impacted by the 2022 floods and will remain CLOSED until further notice for flood recovery work.
Right now
ClosedThe agency’s own sentence, quoted below
A night
$20When it reopens, per site
Sites
27In the agency’s record
6,850 ftElevation
78 ftWater · an unnamed stream
40 miSE of Pray, MT
n/aTree cover · water-masked cell
Bortle 2Night sky · 5th darkest of 248 in WY

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Pebble Creek Campground was significantly impacted by the 2022 floods and will remain CLOSED until further notice for flood recovery work.

Source: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets - seasonal
Drinking water
Yes
Source: National Park Service and agency records

Around the campground

On the water
Creek

Nothing to book until it reopens

Pebble Creek Campground was significantly impacted by the 2022 floods and will remain CLOSED until further notice for flood recovery work.

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.

A night, when it reopens$20plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s fee record
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itNational Park ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
What’s open near here
Tell me when it reopens

Watch for it to come back

One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.

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.

We’ll write once, when the agency reopens it.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Every line of the receipt · 9

What you actually pay

The sign priceNational Park Service
A night when it reopens, from$20
Nightly Fee$20
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

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 · 4
Source: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026
What the agency said · 1

Pebble Creek Campground was significantly impacted by the 2022 floods and will remain CLOSED until further notice for flood recovery work.

National Park Service · the source publishes no posting date

Filed as emergency from the agency’s own words “flood”. That reading is ours.

Open within 60 miles · 2

The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.

Open near here: Agency-published status, in the CAMPANAC campground index · Oct 17, 2026

record Aug 24, 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 · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Tonight33°Mostly Clear
Saturday63°Mostly Sunny
Saturday Night33°Partly Cloudy
Sunday61°Mostly Sunny

NWS forecast for Silver Gate, MT

Typical weather

Typical October night 24°F, day 47°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 6°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

80°32°0°

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.

Measured at: COOKE CITY 2 W, MT (USC00241995), 9 miles away and 633 ft higher

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Harriet Hageman, official portrait

Pebble Creek 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: National Park Service’s own notice puts it in the closed position. Its sentence is quoted below.
Cell signal: the Park Service’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: Silver Gate, MT, 8.1 mi SW (a census designated place). Straight line.