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Buffalo Creek Campground
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · WY · 43.43854, -107.22193
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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 Buffalo Creek Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 8,128 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Buffalo Creek 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 Buffalo Creek 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
- GGrocery26 mi
- @Mail30 mi
- FFuel35 mi
- WWater45 mi
- DDump50 mi
- LLaundry52 mi
- EVEV fast charger52 mi
- HHardware53 mi
- +Urgent care54 mi
- MMechanic54 mi
- OOutfitter60 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 45-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 26 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 52-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 — Buffalo Creek Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
8,128 ft
Ground slope
8.5% · noticeable
State
WY
Coordinates
43.43854, -107.22193
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Buffalo Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · WY (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureMiddle Fork Buffalo Creek · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- Fuelnone within 30 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesLysite Corner Store · ~26.2 mi
- Mapping is thin out hereAn empty row means nothing is mapped within that radius — not that nothing exists. Small stores, seasonal resorts and single fuel pumps out here often never make it onto the map. Treat these as unconfirmed and ask locally.
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Buffalo Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · WY — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger51.6 mi straight-line W — Wind River Canyon Whitewater & Fly Fishing, Thermopolis, WY · EV Connect · CCS · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · none within 50 · 8 within 100 · 21 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)65.2 mi — Evansville, WY - Tesla Supercharger, Evansville
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO97.2 mi — SHERIDAN MOTORS CPE250, Sheridan
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)53.7 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.
- 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 462372 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Buffalo Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · WY — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomBuffalo Creek Restroom · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomGrave Spring Restroom · ~1.8 mi N · BLM
- RestroomMiddle Fork Powder River Rr · ~10.4 mi NE · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletOutlaw Cave Vault Toilet · ~17.3 mi NE · BLM
Coming out here — Buffalo Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · WY
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Middle Fork Buffalo Creek as a perennial stream, ~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 8.5% — noticeable. 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 Buffalo Creek Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Buffalo Creek Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Grave Springs Campground~1.6 mi
- Middle Fork of the Powder River Campground~10.4 mi
- Ellis WHMA — Middle Fork Powder River Camping Location~11.7 mi
- Ellis WHMA — Ellis South~12.0 mi
The unit that manages Buffalo Creek Campground
Buffalo Creek Campground is in the Casper Field Office, High Plains 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 Grave Springs at 8,560 ft, about 2 miles away. It sits about 432 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 — Buffalo Creek Campground
Stay limit
None published
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
FREE BLM campground on the South Bighorn/Red Wall Back Country Byway. FEE, BLM's own Fees section: "No Fee." The description repeats it: "There no fees associated with this campground and also no water is available at this campground. Campsites are first come, first served." [sic] SITES: "It has four camping sites, a vault toilet and fire rings. It is partially accessible." Only four sites -- have a fallback. ACCESS: "From Arminto, take the South Bighorn/Red Wall Back Country Byway north for 13.5 miles to Bighorn Mountain Road. Turn left and go 9.5 miles north to the campground on the left." NEAREST TOWN: Arminto, WY, about 24 miles south (BLM's own figure). BLM's standard stay limit on Wyoming public land is 14 days; where BLM states it on the site's own page it is quoted below. BLM does not print a stay limit on this particular page. Managed by Casper Field Office, 307-261-7600. Coordinate is BLM's own published facility point from gis.blm.gov/arcgis/rest/services/recreation/BLM_Natl_Recreation_Sites_Facilities (read 2026-08-17), cross-checked against the Geographic Coordinates printed on the site's own blm.gov page. It is a facility pin, not a surveyed campsite. SOURCE: https://www.blm.gov/visit/search-details/274351/1
--- NIGHT-SHIFT REVIEW 2026-08-19 (nightshift-verified) -- APPROVED.
Re-fetched https://www.blm.gov/visit/search-details/274351/1 this fire. The page is live and still titled "Buffalo Creek Campground | Wyoming". The Fees section still reads "No Fee." and the description still says "It has four camping sites, a vault toilet and fire rings... There no fees associated with this campground and also no water is available at this campground." [sic -- BLM's own dropped word] BLM's printed Geographic Coordinates are still 43.438542, -107.22193, matching this row to the digit. Cross-checked the same day against gis.blm.gov/arcgis/rest/services/recreation/BLM_Natl_Recreation_Sites_Facilities (layer 8, BLM Natl RIDB Facilities Camping). Nothing this row claims has changed since it was written.
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 Buffalo Creek 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 — Buffalo Creek Campground
When the high country opens →Winter vs summer roads →Finding water out here →Gear & rig loadout →All field notes →