Sugarloaf Campground (WY)
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 1715 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
At an elevation of 10,800 feet, Sugarloaf is the highest elevation campground that the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest has to offer and it is one of the highest elevation campgrounds in the United States. The sites at this location offer a breathtaking panorama of the Snowy Range which peaks out at 12,000 feet. There is little or no shade in the campground due to elevation, the pine beetle infestation, and the removal of hazard trees. This campground will have a mix of reservation sites and first-come, first-served sites for the 2026 season. Keep reading
If you are not reserving your site, you may be able to pay for your campsite(s) by cash or check once you are at the campground. Modifications on reservations are not allowed for this site. This is due to limited capacity to update reservation placards when concerning last minute modifications as well as limited functionality with the modifications feature in recreation.gov which has only an ON or OFF toggle for site managers and no feature allowing modifications up until a certain time frame.
Recreation
Sugarloaf Campground is near a variety of hiking trails and two crystal clear snow-melt lakes: Libby and Lewis Lakes. Non-motorized craft can be used on these lakes but you must carry your boat to the water's edge. Both Libby and Lewis lakes contain brook trout and splake (a hybrid of a male brook trout and female lake trout). Lewis Lake is annually stocked by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD). Use of live-bait fish is prohibited in lakes and streams within the Forest. Three popular trailheads originate in this area that range in difficulty level to accomadate visitor's interests. Savage Run Wilderness and Platte River Wilderness are nearby to the south for visitors that desire a more remote setting.
Facilities
Sugarloaf Campground has 16 sites and can accomodate small trailers up to 22 feet long. Sites are equipped with tent pads, picnic tables, and fire rings. Tents must be set up inside the provided tent pads. All sites have access to a water handpump, a vault toilet, and trash collection. No electrical hook-ups, water hook-ups, or black water hook-ups are available. Handpump water may be available in this campground from July to September. These dates may vary due to weather, well and/or pump maintenance, and water testing requirements. As such, we encourage you to bring your own water or call ahead.
Natural Features
The campground sits on a spruce and fir-lined hillside in the midst of a fisherman's paradise of 102 recreational lakes. This is a rustic, picturesque campground where every site has delightful views of the Snowy Range. The Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland encompass nearly 3 million acres from central and northeastern Wyoming to north-central Colorado. Black bear, bobcat, coyote, elk, marmots, moose, mule deer, and pikas are just some of the many animals that inhabit these rich and diverse lands.
Nearby Attractions
The campground is 1.5 miles from the Libby Flats Observation Area. Visitors can find many more outdoor opportunities in the surrounding Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest including hiking, biking, camping, horseback riding, fishing, hunting, sightseeing, and winter sports.
Charges & Cancellations
Modifications on reservations are not allowed for this site. This is due to limited capacity to update reservation placards when concerning last minute modifications as well as limited functionality with the modifications feature in recreation.gov which has only an ON or OFF toggle for site managers and no feature allowing modifications up until a certain time frame.
What the agency tells you
Modifications on reservations are not allowed for this site. This is due to limited capacity to update reservation placards when concerning last minute modifications as well as limited functionality with the modifications feature in recreation.gov which has only an ON or OFF toggle for site managers and no feature allowing modifications up until a certain time frame.
Check-in time is after 2:00 p.m. on the first day of the reservation.
Check-out time is 1:00 p.m. on the last day of the reservation.
Everything else this campground posts · 12
If the reservation holder doesn't show up on the first day of the reservation, the campsite is released at check-in time (2 pm) the next day.
There are no electric, water, or sewer hookup services.
Maximum length of stay is 14 days.
Campfires at this site are only allowed in USFS approved metal fire rings.
Campsites are limited to 8 people and 2 vehicles per site.
Dogs must be on leash.
Quiet hours are 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.
This is a high elevation facility; please use caution when traveling from lower elevations. Some visitors may need to acclimate at a lower elevation for at least one night prior to visiting this facility.
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
Sites must be occupied the first night and camping equipment can not be left unoccupied for more than 24 hours. If not occupied the first night the site may be released to first come first serve customers.
You are responsible for reading the site descriptions and booking a site that will accommodate your equipment.
Please print off your reservation and display it on your vehicle's dash. Reservation receipt will double as a voucher for day use sites in the Medicine Bow National Forest for the reserved days.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 17
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Little
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…sites have access to a water handpump, a vault toilet, and trash collection. No electrical hook-ups,…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…As such, we encourage you to bring your own water or call ahead. Natural Features The campground sits…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 15 of the 17 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
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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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 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.
“Modifications on reservations are not allowed for this site. This is due to limited capacity to update reservation placards when concerning last minute modifications as well as limited functionality with the modifications feature in recreation.gov which has only an ON or OFF toggle for site managers and no feature a…” · 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
17 sites
All 17 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 17 of the 17 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| S&P | Standard S&P | type not stated | $20 |
| 01 | type not stated | $20 | |
| 02 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| 03 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| 04 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| 05 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| 06 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| 07 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| 08 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| 09 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| 10 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| 11 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| 12 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| 13 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| 14 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| 15 | standard nonelectric | $20 | |
| 16 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Little Brooklyn Lake GuardMedicine Bow National Forest · 2.6 mi
Brooklyn Lake CampgroundMedicine Bow National Forest · 2.8 miNash Fork CampgroundMedicine Bow National Forest · 3.0 mi
Silver Lake Campground (WY)Medicine Bow National Forest · 4.5 mi
Snow Survey CabinMedicine Bow National Forest · 4.8 mi
North Fork (WY)Medicine Bow National Forest · 6.4 miThe campground is 43 miles west of Laramie, WY and 39 miles east of Saratoga, WY on State Highway 130.
Coming from either Laramie or Saratoga on State Highway 130, turn north on to Forest Service Road 346 and the campground will be in three quarters of a mile on your right.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
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The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
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Who answers for this land
Sugarloaf Campground (WY) 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 →