Wapiti Campground
1Heads up1 fire 27 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20–$60Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 40All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Wapiti Campground is located is located along the Buffalo Bill Scenic Byway about 30 miles west of Cody, in northwestern Wyoming. It is 22 miles east of the east entrance to Yellowstone National Park. The surrounding area offers many outdoor recreational opportunities, including fishing, hiking and viewing local wildlife. Keep reading
Recreation
Great opportunities for hiking, fishing, scenic driving and wildlife viewing are available around the campground. The North Fork of the Shoshone River is a popular fly-fishing location for rainbow and Yellowstone cutthroat trout. The Wapiti Wayside is located less than a quarter-mile east of the campground and offers interpretive information on grizzly bears and other local wildlife.
Facilities
The campground offers accessible single- and double-family campsites, many of which have electric hookups. Sites 1 through 21 are standard RV Electric and have both 15 amp and 30 amp electrical hookups, and sites 22 through 40 are Standard Nonelectric. Each site is equipped with a table, campfire ring and food storage locker. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Campers may gather firewood in the area.
Natural Features
The campground is situated among cottonwood and juniper trees, along the North Fork of the Shoshone River, at an elevation of 6,000 feet. Ancient cliffs from the Absaroka volcanic mud flow tower above the campground. A wide variety of wildlife lives in the area. Visitors often glimpse grizzly bears, deer, elk, bison, moose, fox, coyotes and bald eagles.
Nearby Attractions
Pahaska Tepee, west of the campground, is home to Buffalo Bill's original hunting lodge, built in 1904. Tours are offered daily between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Pahaska also offers guided horseback rides, a gift shop, restaurant and lodging. Yellowstone National Park's east entrance is 22 miles from the campground via the Buffalo Bill Cody Scenic Byway. The park offers unparalleled wildlife viewing opportunities, as well as breathtaking scenery and unique geological features. The small, historic city of Cody offers a variety of dining, lodging and shopping options. The Buffalo Bill Historical Center offers extensive displays of Greater Yellowstone natural history, Plains Indians artifacts, western art, firearms, Buffalo Bill memorabilia and a wild sheep exhibit.
What the agency tells you
Grizzly bears frequent the area; all food, beverages, coolers, trash and other attractants must be properly stored at all times
An additional fee will be collected at the campground for extra vehicles
Horses and other livestock are not allowed to stay in the campground, but may pass through to access trails
Everything else this campground posts · 2
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.
Click here for more information on the Shoshone National Forest
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 40
- Hookups
- 21 electric
- Longest rig
- 145 ft
- Accessible sites
- 40
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campfire ring and food storage locker. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and food storage locker. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Campers may…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Firewood
- Mentioned
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 23rd darkest of 248 in WY
- Bortle 2
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:32 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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 · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$60 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.
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 · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 16:32 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
40 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 39 mapped sitesAll 40 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. 40 of the 40 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| EAST | 02 | rv electric | 47 ft | 30 amp | yes | 103 ft | 506 ft | $30–$60 |
| EAST | 03 | rv electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | yes | 102 ft | 463 ft | $30–$60 |
| EAST | 04 | rv electric | 49 ft | 30 amp | yes | 102 ft | 416 ft | $30–$60 |
| EAST | 05 | rv electric | 90 ft | 30 amp | yes | 123 ft | 407 ft | $30–$60 |
| EAST | 06 | rv electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | yes | 123 ft | 325 ft | $30–$60 |
| EAST | 07 | rv electric | 105 ft | 30 amp | yes | 191 ft | 338 ft | $30–$60 |
| EAST | 08 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | yes | 29 ft | 119 ft | $30–$60 |
| EAST | 09 | rv electric | 46 ft | 30 amp | yes | 29 ft | 131 ft | $30–$60 |
| EAST | 10 | rv electric | 145 ft | 30 amp | yes | 29 ft | 103 ft | $30–$60 |
| EAST | 11 | rv electric | 36 ft | 30 amp | yes | 109 ft | 157 ft | $30–$60 |
| EAST | 12 | rv electric | 110 ft | 30 amp | yes | 109 ft | 102 ft | $30–$60 |
| EAST | 13 | rv electric | 46 ft | 30 amp | yes | 110 ft | 200 ft | $30–$60 |
| EAST | 14 | rv electric | 95 ft | 30 amp | yes | 103 ft | 100 ft | $30–$60 |
| EAST | 15 | rv electric | 48 ft | 30 amp | yes | 97 ft | 129 ft | $30–$60 |
| EAST | 16 | rv electric | 42 ft | 30 amp | yes | 97 ft | 200 ft | $30–$60 |
| EAST | 17 | rv electric | 122 ft | 30 amp | yes | 97 ft | 185 ft | $30–$60 |
| EAST | 18 | rv electric | 46 ft | 30 amp | yes | 97 ft | 238 ft | $30–$60 |
| EAST | 19 | rv electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | yes | 113 ft | 253 ft | $30–$60 |
| EAST | 20 | rv electric | 145 ft | 30 amp | yes | 113 ft | 317 ft | $30–$60 |
| EAST | 21 | rv electric | 48 ft | 30 amp | yes | 132 ft | 441 ft | $30–$60 |
| WAPITI CAMPGROUND | 01 | rv electric | 140 ft | 30 amp | yes | $30–$60 | ||
| WEST | 22 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 91 ft | 358 ft | $20–$40 | |
| WEST | 23 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | yes | 100 ft | 233 ft | $20–$40 | |
| WEST | 24 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 91 ft | 310 ft | $20–$40 | |
| WEST | 25 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 109 ft | 213 ft | $20–$40 | |
| WEST | 26 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | yes | 115 ft | 306 ft | $20–$40 | |
| WEST | 27 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | yes | 114 ft | 194 ft | $20–$40 | |
| WEST | 28 | standard nonelectric | 124 ft | yes | 94 ft | 86 ft | $20–$40 | |
| WEST | 29 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | yes | 111 ft | 219 ft | $20–$40 | |
| WEST | 30 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 94 ft | 164 ft | $20–$40 | |
| WEST | 31 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | yes | 116 ft | 55 ft | $20–$40 | |
| WEST | 32 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 116 ft | 74 ftElk Fork | $20–$40 | |
| WEST | 33 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 85 ft | 201 ft | $20–$40 | |
| WEST | 34 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 85 ft | 278 ft | $20–$40 | |
| WEST | 35 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | yes | 144 ft | 216 ftElk Fork | $20–$40 | |
| WEST | 36 | standard nonelectric | 115 ft | yes | 124 ft | 420 ftElk Fork | $20–$40 | |
| WEST | 37 | standard nonelectric | 110 ft | yes | 92 ft | 506 ft | $20–$40 | |
| WEST | 38 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 119 ft | 419 ft | $20–$40 | |
| WEST | 39 | standard nonelectric | 86 ft | yes | 92 ft | 557 ft | $20–$40 | |
| WEST | 40 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | yes | 167 ft | 624 ft | $20–$40 |
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.
25 of 40 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Big Game CampgroundShoshone National Forest · 1.0 mi
Clearwater CampgroundShoshone National Forest · 2.2 mi
Rex HaleShoshone National Forest · 5.1 miNewton Creek CampgroundShoshone National Forest · 6.8 miEagle Creek CampgroundShoshone National Forest · 13 miBobcat-Houlihan CampgroundCody Field Office · 14 miFrom Cody, Wyo., follow Sheridan Avenue west through Cody until the road leaves town and becomes the Buffalo Bill Cody Scenic Byway (U.S. Highway 14/16/20). The campground is 30 miles west of Cody, on the north side of the highway and next to the river. It is between Elk Fork Campground to the west and Big Game Campground to the east.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cody, WY
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 57°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 17°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
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
Wapiti 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 →