Vedauwoo Designated Dispersed Campsites

First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.

This is how it should work.

What we know about getting in

Right now: Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Designated Dispersed Camping Brochure Designated Dispersed Camping Map Located near I-80 between Cheyenne and Laramie, Vedauwoo is a popular destination for camping and recreation among locals and visitors alike. Tucked back on Forest Service Road 700 behind the campground, 97 designated dispersed campsites have been put in place. Access from I-80, Vedauwoo exit 329 or from Happy Jack Rd, Hwy 210.These sites welcome all types of RVs and tent campers. Designated group campsites are available for parties over eight people. Keep reading

Much like the campground, Vedauwoo designated dispersed sites offer easy access to the various trails and other recreation opportunities throughout the Pole Mountain area . Dispersed camping is defined as camping sites that are outside of the campgrounds and do not have services such as toilets, electric, water or trash, however each site has a rock fire ring, and the three group sites have a metal ring/grate. All vehicles and campfires must by within 50 feet of the site marker at all times, 100 feet or group sites. No more than two vehicles per site, except for group sites. Length of stay is limited to 16 days at a given site. Please back out all trash and human and animal waste. There are multiple trailheads located near the Vedauwoo designated campground and designated dispersed campsites. Among these various trails is the Turtle Rock Trailhead, a favorite for visitors. The trail is a short hike, that allows for all levels of hikers. It covers a nice loop that passes multiple rock formations and a few beaver ponds tucked back in the tress. Stop into the Laramie Ranger Station for free trail guides. Vault toilets are located at the Nautilus Rock TH and on FR 700D. No water or other services available.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Vault Toilets; “…Ranger Station for free trail guides. Vault toilets are located at the Nautilus Rock TH and on FR 700D.…”
Drinking water: None, bring your own; “…at the Nautilus Rock TH and on FR 700D. No water or other services available.”

Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

Biking

Climbing

Hiking

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Official page: Vedauwoo Designated Dispersed Campsites →

Nothing to book, just show up

One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. 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.

BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe agency’s record

Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record

Every line of the receipt · 3

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service

The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.

What a stay costs

The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.

How we know this receipt · 4

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

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The weather

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

The land, and who answers for it

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.

Cell signal: the Forest 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.