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Golden Currant Campground
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · WY · 42.66460, -106.63235
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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 Golden Currant Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,264 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Golden Currant 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 Golden Currant 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
- OOutfitter8 mi
- MMechanic15 mi
- FFuel16 mi
- GGrocery16 mi
- RxPharmacy17 mi
- +Urgent care17 mi
- HHardware18 mi
- DDump22 mi
- @Mail22 mi
- EVEV fast charger22 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: fuel & food sit about 16 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Water, 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 — Golden Currant Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
5,264 ft
Ground slope
4.9% · gentle
State
WY
Coordinates
42.66460, -106.63235
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Golden Currant Campground · Bureau of Land Management · WY (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureNorth Platte River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townBessemer Bend · ~8.6 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelLoaf 'N Jug · ~15.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~21.9 mi
- GroceriesLoaf 'N Jug · ~15.5 mi
- PharmacyWalmart Pharmacy · ~16.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicImmediate Care · ~17.1 mi
- HardwareFerguson Plumbing Supply · ~18.2 mi
EV charging — from Golden Currant Campground · Bureau of Land Management · WY — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger22.4 mi straight-line NE — Flying J 758, Casper, WY · eVgo Network · CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-15 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach3 within 25 mi · 3 within 50 · 8 within 100 · 29 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)24.7 mi — Evansville, WY - Tesla Supercharger, Evansville
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)67.6 mi — Fremont Motor Rawlins (at a car dealership) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-10-13 · hours: 8am-6pm M-Sat
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Hampton Inn & Suites Douglas - Tesla Destination, Douglas, 62.5 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 429570 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Golden Currant Campground · Bureau of Land Management · WY — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletGolden Currant Vault Toilet · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletWhitetail Vault Toilet · ~0.2 mi SE · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletChalk Bluffs Double Vault Toilet · ~1.0 mi NE · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletBuffalo Berry Vault Toilet · ~1.3 mi N · BLM
Coming out here — Golden Currant 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 4.9% — gentle. 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 Golden Currant Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Golden Currant Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Chalk Bluffs Campground~0.9 mi · fee
- Pete's Draw Campground~6.5 mi · fee
- North Platte River~9.0 mi
- Muddy Mountain Environmental Education Area~18.8 mi · fee
The unit that manages Golden Currant Campground
Golden Currant 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.
How we know this — Golden Currant Campground
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 fee campground on the North Platte River east of Alcova, about 1.4 km from Chalk Bluffs. FEE, BLM's own words: "Fee: $10 per night for overnight camping. No fee for day use." TENTS ONLY -- BLM is explicit: "Please, overnight use is restricted to tent camping only." SITES: "There is a parking area, vault toilet, four overnight tent camping sites, a short pedestrian trail, fire rings and picnic tables. There is no water available at this campground. Campsites are first come, first served." Four sites. ACCESS: "From Alcova, go east 7.4 miles on Highway 220 and turn left onto County Road 316. Travel for 2.7 miles on County Road 316 to the turnoff on the right." 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. 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/254057/1
--- NIGHT-SHIFT REVIEW 2026-08-19 (nightshift-verified) -- APPROVED.
Re-fetched https://www.blm.gov/visit/search-details/254057/1 this fire. The page is live and still titled "Golden Currant Campground | Wyoming". The Fees section still reads "Fee: $10 per night for overnight camping. No fee for day use.", and the tents-only restriction this row calls out is still printed verbatim: "Please, overnight use is restricted to tent camping only." BLM's printed Geographic Coordinates are still 42.664599, -106.632346, 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 Golden Currant 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 — Golden Currant Campground
Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Cold-weather camping →How to read this page →All field notes →