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Pole Creek
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · WY · 41.25233, -105.41652
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service 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 Pole Creek
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 8,305 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Pole CreekNIFC · 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 Pole Creek · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · WY
Straight-line miles · bearings approx · roads run longer
Nearest of each
- FFuel7 mi
- GGrocery7 mi
- RxPharmacy8 mi
- +Urgent care8 mi
- MMechanic8 mi
- EVEV fast charger8 mi
- OOutfitter8 mi
- @Mail9 mi
- HHardware10 mi
- LLaundry10 mi
- AAir-up10 mi
- DDump11 mi
- WWater31 mi
- ShShower36 mi
- PPropane50 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 31-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 7 mi out.
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 — Pole Creek
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
8,305 ft
State
WY
Coordinates
41.25233, -105.41652
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Pole Creek · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · WY (OpenStreetMap)
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelTumbleweed Express · ~6.7 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~10.8 mi
- GroceriesWalmart Supercenter · ~7.3 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~7.7 mi
- Hospital / clinicSpine and Injury Clinic of Laramie · ~7.7 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~9.8 mi
EV charging — from Pole Creek · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · WY — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger7.9 mi straight-line NW — Laramie GM Auto Center (at a car dealership) · Non-Networked · CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-06-06 · hours: 8am-7pm M-Sat · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach3 within 25 mi · 18 within 50 · 137 within 100 · 349 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)11.6 mi — Laramie, WY - Tesla Supercharger, Laramie
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO43.7 mi — MAVERIK WELLINGTON PL1, Wellington
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)7.9 mi — Laramie Range · Blink Network · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Pricing at the fast chargerFree (as listed by AFDC)
- 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 321174 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Pole Creek · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · WY — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomPole Creek · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletYellow Pine · ~0.3 mi NE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletTie City · ~1.0 mi W · USFS
- Highway rest areaSummit Rest Area · ~1.5 mi SW
Open Pole Creek elsewhere
Other camps near Pole Creek
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Yellow Pine~0.3 mi · fee
- Tie City~1.0 mi · fee
- Vedauwoo~6.9 mi · fee
- Gelatt Lake PAA Campground~22.0 mi
The unit that manages Pole Creek
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Pole Creek are set by Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Crow Creek at 8,320 ft, about 2 miles away. That is about the height of this camp, so it is a fair proxy. 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 — Pole Creek
Source
U.S. Forest Service 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
Developed FEE campground (not free) - review | auto:usfs-fee 2026-08-20: US Forest Service developed campground, agency coordinates, agency states a fee. No dollar amount in the agency record -- expect a charge and confirm the current rate before you go. Not field-verified. | Fee 2026-08-23: no rate published by the agency, and the one record that exists contradicts itself. The Forest Service's recreation-site record for POLE CREEK (objectid 2555897, recreation area Pole Creek Group Campground, placed by the agency at 41.252327 / -105.416520, on our pin) carries a fee-charged flag of Y -- which is why this pin says fee site -- while the fee description on the same record reads: No fees required for this site. That same record shows the site CLOSED. The Medicine Bow-Routt publishes no recreation page for it, it is absent from the forest's own camping index, and a recreation.gov search around these coordinates returns no listing for it -- the nearest, Yellow Pine at 0.33 mi, is a different campground. We have left the fee flag alone rather than call it free on a record that says both things at once. Come prepared to pay. Checked https://apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/EDW/EDW_RecInfraRecreationSites_02/MapServer/0/query?where=objectid%3D2555897&outFields=*&returnGeometry=false&f=json, https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/mbrtb/recreation/camping-cabins and https://www.recreation.gov/api/search?lat=41.252327&lng=-105.41652&radius=6&size=40.
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 Pole Creek
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 — Pole Creek
When the high country opens →Winter vs summer roads →Finding water out here →Camping with a dog →All field notes →
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