Yellow Pine Campground (WY)
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 19All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
The campground is composed of 19 sites in a single loop near a stand of mixed conifers and Aspen. Keep reading
Recreation
The campground connects to the Tie City trail system which is a challenging network of mountain bike trails, and is also used in the winter for cross country skiing.
Facilities
Yellow Pine Campground has sites able to accommodate tents, trailers, and RVs. The campground offers picnic tables, campfire rings, pedestal grills, vault toilets, and trash collection. There are no water hookups, electric hookups, or black water hookups.
Natural Features
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
Vedauwoo Recreation Area is nearby. Vedauwoo is a group of spectacular granite rock formations rising out of the thin soils on Pole Mountain. The area is a popular destination for rock climbers, hikers, mountain bikers and others who enjoy numerous opportunities to follow their own spirit of play in this gorgeous natural landscape.
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
There is no potable water at this site.
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.
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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.
Only 1 RV/trailer per RV campsite.
No RVs or camper trailers can park in parking spaces for walk-in tent campsites. These campsites and associated parking are for tent camping only.
Dogs must be on leash.
Quiet hours are 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.
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.
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
- 19
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…tables, campfire rings, pedestal grills, vault toilets, and trash collection. There are no water hookups,…”
Around the campground
- Cross Country Skiing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Mountain biking
- Wildlife viewing
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
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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 →
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rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
19 sites
All 19 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. 19 of the 19 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Yellow Pine | 01 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Yellow Pine | 02 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Yellow Pine | 03 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Yellow Pine | 04 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Yellow Pine | 05 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Yellow Pine | 06 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Yellow Pine | 07 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Yellow Pine | 08 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Yellow Pine | 09 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Yellow Pine | 10 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Yellow Pine | 11 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Yellow Pine | 12 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Yellow Pine | 13 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Yellow Pine | 14 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Yellow Pine | 15 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Yellow Pine | 16 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Yellow Pine | 17 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Yellow Pine | 18 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
| Yellow Pine | 19 | standard nonelectric | $20 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Tie City Campground (WY)Medicine Bow National Forest · 1.3 mi
Hidden Valley Group SiteMedicine Bow National Forest · 1.9 mi
Vedauwoo GazeboMedicine Bow National Forest · 6.7 mi
Vedauwoo Tent Campground (WY)Medicine Bow National Forest · 6.8 mi
Vedauwoo Campground (WY)Medicine Bow National Forest · 7.0 miFrom Laramie, WY, take I-80 east 9.5 miles to WY 210, exit 323. Exit and go left at the stop sign onto WY 210/ Happy Jack Rd. and go 0.1 miles to Happy Jack Recreation Area sign. Turn left, staying on WY 210, and go 2.1 miles to another Happy Jack Recreation Area sign on FR 719. Turn right onto FR 719 and go 1.1 miles to "Y" intersection. Bear left and go 0.4 miles to campground.
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
Who answers for this land
Yellow Pine 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 →