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Pete's Draw Campground
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · WY · 42.57946, -106.68547
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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 Pete's Draw Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,322 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Pete's Draw 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 Pete's Draw 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
- OOutfitter2 mi
- FFuel22 mi
- GGrocery22 mi
- MMechanic22 mi
- RxPharmacy23 mi
- +Urgent care23 mi
- HHardware24 mi
- DDump28 mi
- @Mail28 mi
- EVEV fast charger28 mi
- WWater55 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 55-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 22 mi out.
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 — Pete's Draw Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
5,322 ft
Ground slope
4.5% · gentle
State
WY
Coordinates
42.57946, -106.68547
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Pete's Draw Campground · Bureau of Land Management · WY (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureNorth Platte River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townAlcova · ~2.9 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelLoaf 'N Jug · ~21.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~27.7 mi
- GroceriesLoaf 'N Jug · ~21.5 mi
- PharmacyWalmart Pharmacy · ~22.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicImmediate Care · ~23.0 mi
- HardwareFerguson Plumbing Supply · ~24.4 mi
EV charging — from Pete's Draw Campground · Bureau of Land Management · WY — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger28.2 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 reachnone within 25 mi · 3 within 50 · 8 within 100 · 37 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)30.2 mi — Evansville, WY - Tesla Supercharger, Evansville
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO146.1 mi — MAVERIK SB SPRINGS PL1, Steamboat Springs
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)61.2 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
- 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 Pete's Draw Campground · Bureau of Land Management · WY — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletPete'S Draw Vault Toilet · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomGray Reef Campground Bathroom 1 Building · ~1.1 mi SW · BoR
- RestroomGray Reef Campground Bathroom 2 Building · ~1.3 mi SW · BoR
- RestroomAlcova Powerplant & Government Camp-Restroom Building · ~2.4 mi SW · BoR
Coming out here — Pete's Draw 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 4.5% — 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 Pete's Draw Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Pete's Draw Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- North Platte River~2.6 mi
- Golden Currant Campground~6.5 mi · fee
- Chalk Bluffs Campground~7.4 mi · fee
- Muddy Mountain Environmental Education Area~22.5 mi · fee
The unit that manages Pete's Draw Campground
Pete's Draw 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 — Pete's Draw Campground
Stay limit
14 nights (STAY LIMIT: BLM's own field, "14 days")
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 just east of Alcova. FEE, BLM's own words: "$10 per night for overnight camping. No fee for day use." STAY LIMIT: BLM's own field, "14 days". SITES: "a parking area, vault toilet, seven overnight campsites with picnic tables, fire rings, shelters, tent pads, and RV parking, trash receptacle, and a hardened pedestrian trail." SHELTERS at the sites -- unusual and worth knowing in that wind. TWO RULES BLM STATES: "No overnight parking is allowed in the day use area", and "This campground receives heavy visitation in the spring and early summer months." ACCESS: "From Alcova, go east .6 miles on Highway 220 to County Road 412 and turn right on County Road 412. Travel for two miles and take a right and continue for .1 miles to the camp." 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/254056/1
--- NIGHT-SHIFT REVIEW 2026-08-19 (nightshift-verified) -- APPROVED.
Re-fetched https://www.blm.gov/visit/search-details/254056/1 this fire. The page is live and still titled "Pete's Draw Campground | Wyoming". The Fees section still reads "$10 per night for overnight camping. No fee for day use.", the Stay Limit field still reads "14 days", and the description still says "seven overnight campsites with picnic tables, fire rings, shelters, tent pads, and RV parking... No water is available at this campground. No overnight parking is allowed in the day use area." BLM's printed Geographic Coordinates are still 42.57946, -106.685475, 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 Pete's Draw 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 — Pete's Draw Campground
Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Cold-weather camping →Power off-grid →All field notes →