Agency-listedBLM · dispersedFree
Prospect Mountain
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · WY · 41.11302, -106.44496
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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 Prospect Mountain
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 7,968 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Prospect MountainNIFC · 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 Prospect Mountain · 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
- WWater12 mi
- FFuel19 mi
- GGrocery19 mi
- @Mail19 mi
- MMechanic19 mi
- +Urgent care28 mi
- DDump28 mi
- LLaundry28 mi
- OOutfitter30 mi
- ShShower35 mi
- EVEV fast charger45 mi
- RxPharmacy46 mi
- HHardware46 mi
- AAir-up46 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 19 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 45-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 — Prospect Mountain
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
7,968 ft
Ground slope
36.5% · steep
State
WY
Coordinates
41.11302, -106.44496
Cost
Free · no fee, per the land manager's own page (blm.gov, read 2026-09-19)
Nearby & resupply — around Prospect Mountain · Bureau of Land Management · WY (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureNorth Platte River (river) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- USGS NHDno named surface water within 1 mi
- Nearest townPearl · ~10.3 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelRiverside Garage & Cabins · ~18.8 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~27.7 mi
- GroceriesRiverside Garage & Cabins · ~18.8 mi
EV charging — from Prospect Mountain · Bureau of Land Management · WY — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger45.4 mi straight-line E — Laramie, 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 · 6 within 50 · 81 within 100 · 363 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS47.9 mi — 910 Yampa St, Steamboat Springs
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO48.9 mi — MAVERIK SB SPRINGS PL1, Steamboat Springs
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)33.8 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, 30.5 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 102516 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Prospect Mountain · Bureau of Land Management · WY — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletSix Mile · ~5.1 mi SE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSix Mile · ~5.4 mi SE · USFS
- RestroomBig Creek-Holroyd Park · ~7.7 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletPelton Creek · ~7.9 mi E · USFS
Coming out here — Prospect Mountain · Bureau of Land Management · WY
- Surface water mapped nearby: North Platte River (river). That is wash water at best, and nobody has checked it for you — a creek can be dry and a tank can be mud. Filter or boil anything you drink. USGS maps no named surface water within 1 mi of the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022).
- Ground slope around the pin: about 36.5% — 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.
- Assume no services at all. Most dispersed camping in a national forest has none: no tap, no power, no dump, often no toilet. Everything you need, you bring.
- 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 Prospect Mountain elsewhere
Other camps near Prospect Mountain
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Pickeroon~1.2 mi
- Pike Pole~1.9 mi
- Six Mile~5.1 mi · fee
- Pelton Creek~7.9 mi · fee
The unit that manages Prospect Mountain
Prospect Mountain 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 Cinnabar Park at 9,670 ft, about 14 miles away. It sits about 1,702 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 — Prospect Mountain
Fee note
No fee, per the BLM page, read 19 Sep 2026: "No Fee" https://www.blm.gov/visit/prospect-mountain
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 RIDB record, agency-listed. Its fee field is empty -- no fee statement -- so the cost is unpriced (field read 2026-09-19). Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up). | No fee 2026-09-19: "No Fee" Source: https://www.blm.gov/visit/prospect-mountain (worker_W, statement verified on that page).
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 Prospect Mountain
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 — Prospect Mountain
When the high country opens →Winter vs summer roads →Finding water out here →Reading your camp page →All field notes →