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Bennett Peak Campground
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · WY · 41.27096, -106.58978
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. 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 Bennett Peak Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 7,143 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Bennett Peak CampgroundNIFC · 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 Bennett Peak Campground · 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
- WWater0 mi
- FFuel10 mi
- GGrocery10 mi
- @Mail11 mi
- MMechanic12 mi
- OOutfitter17 mi
- DDump38 mi
- LLaundry38 mi
- ShShower38 mi
- +Urgent care40 mi
- EVEV fast charger48 mi
- RxPharmacy52 mi
- HHardware52 mi
- AAir-up52 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 10 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 48-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 — Bennett Peak Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
7,143 ft
Ground slope
15.8% · steep
State
WY
Coordinates
41.27096, -106.58978
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Bennett Peak Campground · Bureau of Land Management · WY (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureNorth Platte River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Also mapped (OSM)Corral Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townRyan Park · ~5.5 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~0.0 mi
- FuelRiverside Garage & Cabins · ~10.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesRiverside Garage & Cabins · ~10.5 mi
EV charging — from Bennett Peak Campground · Bureau of Land Management · WY — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger48.2 mi straight-line NW — Rawlins, WY - Tesla Supercharger (at a hotel) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 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 · 47 within 100 · 348 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS48.6 mi — Kroger-City Market 412 (Rawlins, WY), Rawlins
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO56.9 mi — MAVERIK SB SPRINGS PL1, Steamboat Springs
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)37.1 mi — Steamboat Lake State Park, Steamboat Springs, CO (at a public site) · RIVIAN_WAYPOINTS · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Copperline Lodge, Saratoga, 17.3 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for guests only · AFDC lists it “Free; donations accepted”
- 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 102518 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Bennett Peak Campground · Bureau of Land Management · WY — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomBennett Peak Toilet · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomCorral Creek Toilet · ~1.1 mi SE · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletRyan Park · ~6.2 mi NE · USFS
- RestroomRyan Park · ~6.3 mi NE · USFS
Coming out here — Bennett Peak Campground · Bureau of Land Management · WY
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps North Platte River as a perennial river, ~0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 15.8% — 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.
- 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 Bennett Peak Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Bennett Peak Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Corral Creek Recreation Site~1.1 mi
- Ryan Park~6.3 mi · fee
- French Creek~6.4 mi · fee
- South Brush Creek~7.0 mi · fee
The unit that manages Bennett Peak Campground
Bennett Peak Campground is in the Rawlins Field Office, High Desert 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 South Brush Creek at 8,480 ft, about 6 miles away. It sits about 1,337 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 — Bennett Peak Campground
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
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
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
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 Bennett Peak Campground
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 — Bennett Peak Campground
Winter vs summer roads →Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Leave no trace →All field notes →