Sibley Lake
1Heads up1 fire 11 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20.50–$25.50Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 24All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Sibley Lake Campground is located at Sibley Lake along the Bighorn Scenic Byway (U.S. Highway 14) near the Burgess Junction at an elevation of 7,900 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 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. Off-road vehicle trails, scenic jeep roads, hiking and additional fishing streams 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. 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 near Sibley Lake and Prune Creek in the Bighorn Mountains, where craggy granite peaks rise over 13,000 feet above sea level. A forest of lodgepole pine 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 25 miles southwest. This center offers interpretive trails, scenic views, and educational displays about natural features such as flora and fauna and area history.
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 $11.00 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 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 may be made through your www.recreation.gov user account and shall be processed in accordance with US Forest Service policy.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 24 · 1 tent-only
- Hookups
- 14 electric
- Longest rig
- 85 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, Creek, Beach
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Visitor center
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 186th 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 · 20
What you actually pay
“the second vehicle will be charged an extra $11.00/day fee at the campground.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20.50–$25.50 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
25 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 24 mapped sitesAll 25 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. 24 of the 25 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| MANAGEMENT | 011 Host | host pad | 55 ft | 30 amp | $20.50 | ||
| SIBLEY LAKE | 001 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 120 ft | 389 ftSibley Lake | $20.50 | |
| SIBLEY LAKE | 002 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 106 ft | 290 ftSibley Lake | $20.50 | |
| SIBLEY LAKE | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 106 ft | 264 ftSibley Lake | $20.50 | |
| SIBLEY LAKE | 004 | tent only nonelectric | 125 ft | 178 ftSibley Lake | $20.50 | ||
| SIBLEY LAKE | 005 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 125 ft | 198 ftPrune Creek | $20.50 | |
| SIBLEY LAKE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 125 ft | 199 ftPrune Creek | $20.50 | |
| SIBLEY LAKE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 78 ft | 250 ftPrune Creek | $20.50 | |
| SIBLEY LAKE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 78 ft | 327 ftPrune Creek | $20.50 | |
| SIBLEY LAKE | 009 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 105 ft | 303 ftPrune Creek | $20.50 | |
| SIBLEY LAKE | 010 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 103 ft | 378 ftPrune Creek | $20.50 | |
| SIBLEY LAKE | 012 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 83 ft | 516 ftPrune Creek | $25.50 |
| SIBLEY LAKE | 013 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50/30 amp | 83 ft | 501 ftPrune Creek | $25.50 |
| SIBLEY LAKE | 014 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 95 ft | 500 ftPrune Creek | $25.50 |
| SIBLEY LAKE | 015 | standard electric | 58 ft | 30 amp | 94 ft | 563 ftPrune Creek | $25.50 |
| SIBLEY LAKE | 016 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 94 ft | 649 ftPrune Creek | $25.50 |
| SIBLEY LAKE | 017 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 724 ftPrune Creek | $25.50 |
| SIBLEY LAKE | 018 | standard electric | 58 ft | 30 amp | 60 ft | 771 ftPrune Creek | $25.50 |
| SIBLEY LAKE | 019 | standard electric | 58 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 831 ftPrune Creek | $25.50 |
| SIBLEY LAKE | 020 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 862 ftSibley Lake | $25.50 |
| SIBLEY LAKE | 021 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 852 ftSibley Lake | $25.50 |
| SIBLEY LAKE | 022 | standard electric | 85 ft | 30 amp | 117 ft | 653 ftSibley Lake | $25.50 |
| SIBLEY LAKE | 023 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 117 ft | 592 ftSibley Lake | $25.50 |
| SIBLEY LAKE | 024 | standard electric | 65 ft | 30 amp | 87 ft | 558 ftSibley Lake | $25.50 |
| SIBLEY LAKE | 025 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 561 ftSibley Lake | $25.50 |
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.
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Sibley Lake CampgroundBighorn National Forest · 0.9 mi
Prune CreekBighorn National Forest · 1.3 mi
Pine Island Group AreaBighorn National Forest · 1.8 mi
Tie FlumeBighorn National Forest · 4.0 mi
North TongueBighorn National Forest · 4.5 mi
Owen CreekBighorn National Forest · 5.2 miFrom Dayton, Wyoming, take U.S. Highway 14 southwest about 25 miles to the campground.
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
Sibley Lake 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 →