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This is a great free campground. Zero hookups, so either bring your water or use the dump station at the Lewis and Clark campground right across the dam. Cost to dump is $10 and water fill is $5. Pay at the self-pay/registration sign in the Lewis and Clark campground. There is no potable water at the dump station. If you pull straight ahead out of the dump station, you can use one of the spigots that is low to the ground to fill your fresh water. If you have questions, ask the camp hosts. They're great!

You can stay here for 14 days and then move to another of the several BOR campgrounds around the lake for 16 days, and then return to this campground. Cheap living!

Don't arrive after dark expecting to find a prime spot. This place is pretty popular.

We stayed here two nights in Aug 2023. Site 51 was recommended for solar, but we found it to be less than ideal. Best bet is to have a generator for power, or have mobile solar panels you can use to get better sun. Also, site 51 had a lit path directly to the restroom, and my wife overheard the couple across the street from us complaining we had taken their path to the restroom, and we didn't leave any space on the asphalt of our site to get through. No kidding. Someone should read about campground etiquette where you don't walk through other people's sites anyway. Oh well. Never had an issue with them otherwise.

All sites are paved. Tent sites appeared to be very level with gravel bottoms. RV sites were plentiful, albeit very short. If you have less than a 30 foot camper, you should be okay. Otherwise, recommend staying elsewhere. Site 51 was a pull-thru site, and it was hard enough to get into. Backing into, pulling into, or pulling out of other sites may be a challenge for 30+ feet rigs. There were a few sites that appeared to be longer. Site 66 was decently long, and site 77, 80, 82, and 90 all appeared to have enough room for larger rigs.

Water was a little tricky to get. Make sure you get it at the dump station before pulling into the camp. There are water spigots in each campground, but they're not easily accessible unless you walk up with a few jugs. The water spigots were also a bit tricky. You had to use one hand to hold down a pressure relief valve, and then hold a larger handle valve down to allow water to flow. Unless you grow a third arm and hand or have help, getting water in jugs is going to be difficult.

The campground itself was very well kept. The price they charge for admission to the cave enables that. The cave itself was very large and had some neat history to it. Several lengths of tours are available, and buying tickets ahead of time is highly suggested due to how soon they sell out. Keep in mind the park is very busy.

For things to do other than see the cave and visitor center, you could bring a bike and ride any number of miles on the various trails. I don't advise riding on the road as there isn't a shoulder on the roads through the park...and nobody wants to be a statistic for riding on the road and getting hit when there's a perfectly good bike trail 30 feet off the road. My wife and I also checked out an older cemetery that was within the park that had people interred from the late 1800s. We also found a few WW I graves, where the sorrow felt by the family over the loss was felt in the epitaph on the headstones. Various Ranger led programs were offered, and we found the Rangers to be well informed and congenial.

Towns with groceries and fuel are reasonably close. There's a Family Dollar and Dollar Tree in Park City, and a Dollar General with some produce and meat products right across the street. Funny how they all seem to congregate together.

Noise in the park was minimal with a few folks running their generators. Note this park has zero hookups.

I'd stay here again, but in another site.

As others have said, the sites are small and you share a site with other campers. See the pictures for a better idea of what I mean. We stayed here in a 35 foot fifth wheel and had trouble backing into the site because the concrete barriers lining the drive were too close to allow us a better turning radius. I'd recommend a smaller class C (30 feet or less) and class B, but not a class A. Even longer travel trailers could be an issue due to how difficult it is to back into these sites. Zero hookups as well. Bring your own power.

The facilities are tired. The showers were decently warm enough to take a good shower, but not very clean. The toilets were functional, but could use more attention. Sinks were the same way. The shower house further from the entrance seemed to be in worse shape than the one closer to the camp host's trailer. None of the lights worked in either of the shower houses. Both shower houses had exposed wiring that went to.....something at some point in time. Bring a flashlight if you want to take a shower after dark. Each of the men's shower houses had two sinks, one urinal, one commode, and a very small stall shower. I think the ladies portion had two commodes. There's a dump station closer to the entrance that has fresh water available. I curbed my trailer getting into it because the turn was very tight. This is a dry camp with zero hookups. Recommend bringing a generator and plenty of fuel for your stay if you want power. Each of the sites had a picnic table that had been painted several times. The roofs for each site were pergola style, so not water/sun proof. The wood was very sun damaged and in need of replacement.

Also, be aware the camp host was at the campground once or twice a day for maybe 5 minutes. He has a trailer set up with all the amenities, but was absent during most of our stay. Also, while this is a National Park, it's ran by a private company. I believe it's contracted out.

The location was off a paved road that was nice enough. It was super hilly getting there though, and I had to downshift on multiple hills to get up, and keep the truck locked in a lower gear as we were going down to keep our speed low. Not a fun thing to do when traffic is wanting to go 70 MPH and you're crawling up and down multiple hills and sharp corners at 55 MPH. Roads through the park were paved as well. However, the road down to the beach was gravel and not maintained. Rains had made several washes in the road bed that made it difficult to get down the hill to the beach. The beach does have pit toilets. When we were there, a few people were camping on the beach despite signs saying it wasn't allowed.

For your troubles, you get to view Firehole Canyon, and the views are nothing short of spectacular.

In the end, we won't be going back. We saw all we needed to see. This camp was too far off the main road, too challenging to get to with a larger rig, not kept up well enough, and not a good value for your money. Pay a few bucks more and stay in town if you have a larger rig.

Most of the sites are very small and very uneven. There were a few (very few) that could accommodate larger rigs. If you have a Class A or 35+ foot trailer, I'd strongly recommend making a reservation. This area is very popular in the busy season with folks visiting Devil's Tower (27ish miles?), and can fill up pretty quick.

I found the paved road to be passable. Not the best road I've been on, nor the worst. It's not going to get any awards for being smooth, if you know what I mean. Watch your speed, because the campground is on the left as you cross the cattle guard. The dirt roads in the campground are suffering from a bit of rain and washout and could stand some attention.

Like most NFS campgrounds, you pay $22 a night for basically a spot to put your trailer. Provided services are a pit toilet, picnic table in need of painting, and dumpsters for trash.

Sites were clean. Vegetation was clear enough to allow you to get back to nature. The area was incredibly quiet, and a very nice reprieve from our night in the Walmart parking lot in Gillette. We only had occasional noise from vehicles coming down the road and hitting the cattle guard pretty fast.

We spent a Sunday night here. Sites were decent sized. We were able to back our 35 foot 5th wheel into a spot pretty easily. Roads were dusty with several people on 4-wheelers ripping by, despite the 15 mph speed limit. Sites needed to be mowed. Bathrooms were closed permanently with a piece of plywood over the door. Porta-potties and hand washing stations were outside the bathrooms. There is a water spigot at the bathrooms you can use to fill your tanks. No dump station in town that I was able to find.