Sheffield Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $13From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Sheffield Campground is located in the northeast corner of the Buffalo Ranger District, just outside of the John D. Rockefeller Parkway. Heading north on Highway 191 to Yellowstone, take a right onto the Forest Service dirt road before you get to the Snake River Bridge just before Flagg Ranch. The campground sits just outside of the Teton Wilderness. This location is equipped with 5 campsites, a single-unit vault toilet, access to bear boxes, and campfire rings. Nearby, visitors can access the wilderness via Sheffield Trailhead which provides access to the historic Huckleberry Lookout.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…equipped with 5 campsites, a single-unit vault toilet, access to bear boxes, and campfire rings. Nearby,…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 35 km away
- Past peak
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $13 with nothing added. 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 · 5
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($13), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Headwaters Campground at Flagg RanchJohn D. Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway · 0.6 mi
Lizard Creek CampgroundGrand Teton National Park · 6.6 mi
Lewis Lake CampgroundYellowstone National Park · 13 mi
Colter Bay CampgroundGrand Teton National Park · 13 mi
Colter Bay RV ParkGrand Teton National Park · 13 mi
Colter Bay Tent VillageGrand Teton National Park · 14 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Alta, WY
Typical weather
Typical October night 21°F, day 51°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 1°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Sheffield 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 →