Prune Creek
1Heads up1 fire 12 mi away
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $20.50From, per site
- Sites
- 20All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Prune Creek Campground is located along the Bighorn Scenic Byway (U.S. Highway 14) near the Burgess Junction at an elevation of 7,700 feet. 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 Off-road vehicle trails, scenic jeep roads, hiking, fishing and canoeing are available in the surrounding area. Diverse hikes vary from loop trails to treks along creeks and over mountain peaks; many trails access the Cloud Peak Wilderness. Nearby Sibley Lake is open to non-motorized craft and offers an accessible fishing dock on the shoreline. Anglers fish for rainbow, brown and brook trout. 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.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the banks of the South Fork Tongue River in the Bighorn Mountains, where craggy granite peaks rise over 13,000 feet above sea level. A forest of lodgepole pines covers the area, creating excellent wildlife habitat. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (307) 431-7446.
Nearby Attractions
Shell Falls Visitor Center, at the overlook of Shell Falls, is about 23 miles southwest. This center offers interpretive trails, scenic views, and educational displays about natural features such as flora and fauna and area history. The Medicine Wheel National Historic Landmark is about 28 miles from the campground. This unique geoglyph signifies all creation, all races of people, birds, fish, animals, trees and stones. According to tribal beliefs, the circular shape of the wheel represents the earth, sun, moon, the cycles of life, seasons and day to night. Arrowhead Lodge, Bear Lodge and Elk View Inn are nearby, offering off-road vehicle rentals and fishing supplies, as well as dining options and general stores.
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. Two non-towed vehicles allowed per site. The first vehicle is included in the basic fee; the second vehicle will be charged an extra $10.00 fee at the campground.
Groups larger than 20 people must use a Day Use facility; Willow Park, Hettinger, Ranger Creek Recreation Area or Pine Island offer group camping
Firewood bundles may be purchased from the campground host.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
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
- 20
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 55 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. Natural Features…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Store
- Nearby
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hotel/Lodge/Resort Privately Owned
- Off Road Vehicle Trails
- Visitor center
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 185th 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 · 16
What you actually pay
“the second vehicle will be charged an extra $10.00/day fee at the campground.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20.50 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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
21 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 20 mapped sitesAll 21 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. 20 of the 21 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| PRUN | 001 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 111 ft | 316 ftSouth Tongue River | $20.50 |
| PRUN | 002 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 58 ft | 205 ftSouth Tongue River | $20.50 |
| PRUN | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 58 ft | 157 ftSouth Tongue River | $20.50 |
| PRUN | 004 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 44 ft | 143 ftSouth Tongue River | $20.50 |
| PRUN | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 44 ft | 99 ftSouth Tongue River | $20.50 |
| PRUN | 006 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 59 ft | 67 ftSouth Tongue River | $20.50 |
| PRUN | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 61 ft | 51 ftSouth Tongue River | $20.50 |
| PRUN | 008 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 47 ft | 76 ftSouth Tongue River | $20.50 |
| PRUN | 009 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 47 ft | 117 ftSouth Tongue River | $20.50 |
| PRUN | 010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 127 ft | 61 ftSouth Tongue River | $20.50 |
| PRUN | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 127 ft | 122 ftSouth Tongue River | $20.50 |
| PRUN | 012 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 237 ft | under 10 ft | $20.50 |
| PRUN | 013 HOST | host pad | 45 ft | 73 ft | $20.50 | |
| PRUN | 014 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 110 ft | 43 ft | $20.50 |
| PRUN | 015 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 97 ft | 168 ft | $20.50 |
| PRUN | 016 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 97 ft | 199 ft | $20.50 |
| PRUN | 017 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 71 ft | 199 ft | $20.50 |
| PRUN | 018 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 216 ft | 165 ft | $20.50 |
| PRUN | 019 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 129 ft | $20.50 |
| PRUN | 020 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 91 ft | 112 ft | $20.50 |
| PRUN | 021 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 106 ft | 75 ft | $20.50 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Pine Island Group AreaBighorn National Forest · 0.8 mi
Sibley LakeBighorn National Forest · 1.3 mi
Sibley Lake CampgroundBighorn National Forest · 1.6 mi
North TongueBighorn National Forest · 3.3 mi
Tie FlumeBighorn National Forest · 3.7 mi
Owen CreekBighorn National Forest · 4.5 miLocated 26 miles southwest of Dayton, Wyoming along U.S. Highway 14.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Dayton, 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
Prune Creek 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 →