Vedauwoo Gazebo
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The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Vedauwoo Gazebo offers a covered picnic area surrounded by unique Sherman granite boulders, slabs, and rock formations for groups of up to 30 people to gather in a beautiful outdoor setting. This facility is excellent for small weddings, family gatherings, and picnics. The gazebo itself is an octagonal shape with ten foot sides and about 500 square feet. The large grill has a 28"x36" cooking surface and a 12"x36" shelf. Four picnic tables are at the site and can be moved around based on the needs of the group. Keep reading
Recreation
Climbing, hiking, mountain biking, and horseback riding are all popular activities throughout the Vedauwoo area.
Facilities
The Gazebo can accommodate up to 30 guests at a time and 4 parking spots are designated for guests. Please plan vehicle use accordingly. A covered picnic area, grills, and vault toilets are provided. Drinking water may be available from a handpump in the nearby campground.
Natural Features
The Gazebo lies within the Vedauwoo picnic area just 15 miles east of Laramie, Wyoming, at an elevation of 8,200 feet. The Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland encompasses nearly 3 million acres from central and northeastern Wyoming to north-central Colorado. Lodgepole pine, aspen, fir, spruce, and shrubs dominate the landscape of the national forests. The Grassland boasts numerous species of grasses and wildflowers that add color to the landscape during warmer months. Black bear, bobcat, coyote, elk, mule deer, pronghorn antelope, and moose are just some of the many animals that inhabit these rich and diverse lands.
Nearby Attractions
Many more outdoor opportunities exist in the surrounding national forests and grasslands, including hiking, biking, climbing, camping, horseback and off-road vehicle riding, fishing, hunting, sightseeing, and winter sports.
What the agency tells you
The Gazebo area may not be used overnight and is available from 8am - dark. Please utilize the nearby Vedauwoo campground for camping amenities
This is a high elevation facility; please use caution when traveling from lower elevations
No fires are permitted except in the grill at this site
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Contact the Ranger District prior to arriving to check on any restrictions or conditions, such as fire or road closures, weather or storms that may affect the quality of your visit. Please be aware that the weather does vary, so check local weather and road conditions prior to arrival as they are susceptible to frequent changes. The Forest Service office is not open evenings, weekends, or holidays
Please print off your reservation and display it on your vehicle's dash. Reservation receipt will double as a voucher for Vedauwoo day use entry for the reserved days.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- ACCESSIBLE VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 1 campsite records
Around the campground
- Climbing
- Hiking
- Mountain biking
- Picnicking
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Forest Service says
- Yes
Nothing here to sleep in
The agency files 1 record here and marks it day use, not overnight. On its own record there’s nothing here to spend the night in.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 9
What you actually pay
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 · 4
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 records · the site map
All 1 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 1 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
| Box Canyon | Gazebo | day use | yes | 736 ft | 277 ft |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. 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
Vedauwoo Tent Campground (WY)Medicine Bow National Forest · 0.1 mi
Vedauwoo Campground (WY)Medicine Bow National Forest · 0.3 mi
Hidden Valley Group SiteMedicine Bow National Forest · 5.9 miPole Creek Dispersed CampgroundMedicine Bow National Forest · 6.5 mi
Yellow Pine Campground (WY)Medicine Bow National Forest · 6.7 mi
Tie City Campground (WY)Medicine Bow National Forest · 6.9 miFrom Laramie, Wyoming, take I-80 east to exit 329 at Vedauwoo Recreation Area. Turn left onto Vedauwoo Glen Rd (Forest Service Road 700) for 1.2 miles. Turn left onto Forest Service Road 720, picnic area is ~0.5 miles down the road on the left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Laramie, WY
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 56°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 12°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
who answers for it · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Vedauwoo Gazebo 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 →
Who can change it · 3
The agency’s own record files sites here and marks every one of them day use. The draft asks whether any could open to overnight camping, and if not, why.
- The member who votes the moneyHarriet M. HagemanU.S. Representative · Wyoming, at-large
- Your senator, on the same appropriationCynthia M. LummisU.S. Senator · Wyoming
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJohn BarrassoU.S. Senator · Wyoming
Read the draft, or change the wording
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Vedauwoo Gazebo has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Harriet M. Hageman, I’m a constituent in Wyoming, at-large. Vedauwoo Gazebo, Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming carries 1 record on the U.S. Forest Service’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Vedauwoo Gazebo (Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Vedauwoo Gazebo has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Cynthia M. Lummis, I’m a constituent in Wyoming. Vedauwoo Gazebo, Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming carries 1 record on the U.S. Forest Service’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Vedauwoo Gazebo (Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Vedauwoo Gazebo has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear John Barrasso, I’m a constituent in Wyoming. Vedauwoo Gazebo, Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming carries 1 record on the U.S. Forest Service’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Vedauwoo Gazebo (Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming) via campanac.com
How we know this · 4
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“the agency's own site records list "CELL PHONE SERVICE" on 1 of 1 campsites here”