Agency-listedBLM · dispersedFree
Alkali Creek Wsa
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · WY · 44.40096, -107.57192
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management lists this site. On most of their ground you can camp away from developed sites pretty much anywhere — so treat this as a known-good spot, not the only one allowed. The unit sets stay limits and how far off road and water you must be. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Alkali Creek Wsa
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,576 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Alkali Creek WsaNIFC · AirNow
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Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Alkali Creek Wsa · Bureau of Land Management · WY
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel23 mi
- GGrocery23 mi
- LLaundry23 mi
- @Mail23 mi
- MMechanic24 mi
- HHardware25 mi
- DDump28 mi
- +Urgent care33 mi
- WWater37 mi
- OOutfitter38 mi
- RxPharmacy41 mi
- EVEV fast charger41 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 37-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 23 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 41-mi run (and back).
Not within 60 mi: Propane. Plan those before you head up.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Alkali Creek Wsa
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
6,576 ft
Ground slope
17.5% · steep
State
WY
Coordinates
44.40096, -107.57192
Cost
Free · no fee, per the land manager's own page (blm.gov, read 2026-09-19)
Nearby & resupply — around Alkali Creek Wsa · Bureau of Land Management · WY (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureAlkali Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Nearest townHyattville · ~10.8 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelCenex · ~24.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~28.2 mi
- GroceriesOverland Express Mart · ~23.1 mi
- Hospital / clinicSouth Big Horn County Hospital · ~23.7 mi
- HardwareBig Horn CO-OP · ~24.6 mi
EV charging — from Alkali Creek Wsa · Bureau of Land Management · WY — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger41.2 mi straight-line NE — Sheridan, WY - Tesla Supercharger (at a hotel) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 2 within 50 · 4 within 100 · 20 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS42.1 mi — SHERIDAN MOTORS CPE250, Sheridan
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO42.1 mi — SHERIDAN MOTORS CPE250, Sheridan
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)32.3 mi — Washakie Museum, Worland - Tesla Destination · Tesla Destination · J1772, NACS (Tesla) · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-08-27 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to all vehicles.
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Shell WY Tesla Chargers - Tesla Destination, Shell, 13.8 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 102520 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Alkali Creek Wsa · Bureau of Land Management · WY — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletMedicine Lodge Lake · ~9.1 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletEdelman · ~9.2 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletLower Paintrock Lake · ~9.3 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletRanger Creek · ~10.6 mi N · USFS
Coming out here — Alkali Creek Wsa · Bureau of Land Management · WY
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Alkali Creek as an intermittent stream, under 0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as intermittent — expect it dry for part of the year. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 17.5% — steep. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (1 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on it.
- Assume no services at all. Most dispersed camping in a national forest has none: no tap, no power, no dump, often no toilet. Everything you need, you bring.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
Open Alkali Creek Wsa elsewhere
Other camps near Alkali Creek Wsa
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Trapper Creek Wsa~6.4 mi
- Medicine Lodge Lake~9.1 mi · fee
- Lower Paintrock Lake~9.3 mi · fee
- Ranger Creek Campground~10.6 mi
The unit that manages Alkali Creek Wsa
Alkali Creek Wsa is in the Worland Field Office, Wind River Bighorn Basin District, Bureau of Land Management. Stay limits, permits, road closures and fire restrictions are set there, not at the campsite — check before you go. Its page maps every camp in it.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Shell Creek at 9,570 ft, about 10 miles away. It sits about 2,994 ft higher than this camp, so treat it as a guide rather than a reading for this spot. We do not repeat a depth here, because any number we stored would be stale by the time you read it — the station publishes today's.
How we know this — Alkali Creek Wsa
Fee note
No fee, per the BLM page, read 19 Sep 2026: "No Fee." https://www.blm.gov/visit/alkali-creek-wsa
Source
Bureau of Land Management recreation data
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
How it was placed
BLM RIDB record, agency-listed. Its fee field is empty -- no fee statement -- so the cost is unpriced (field read 2026-09-19). Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up). | No fee 2026-09-19: "No Fee." Source: https://www.blm.gov/visit/alkali-creek-wsa (worker_W, statement verified on that page).
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Alkali Creek Wsa
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Alkali Creek Wsa
Winter vs summer roads →Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Camping with a dog →All field notes →