Agency-listedBLM · dispersedUnpriced · confirm
Red Gulch/Alkali Backcountry Byway
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · WY · 44.51976, -107.86163
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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 Red Gulch/Alkali Backcountry Byway
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4,189 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Red Gulch/Alkali Backcountry BywayNIFC · 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 Red Gulch/Alkali Backcountry Byway · 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
- GGrocery10 mi
- HHardware10 mi
- MMechanic10 mi
- FFuel10 mi
- @Mail10 mi
- LLaundry13 mi
- +Urgent care35 mi
- DDump36 mi
- OOutfitter48 mi
- RxPharmacy48 mi
- EVEV fast charger49 mi
- WWater53 mi
- ShShower60 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 53-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 10 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 49-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 — Red Gulch/Alkali Backcountry Byway
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
4,189 ft
Ground slope
3.7% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~9.7 mi · other track
State
WY
Coordinates
44.51976, -107.86163
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Red Gulch/Alkali Backcountry Byway · Bureau of Land Management · WY (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureShell Canal · under 0.1 mi · USGS: canal or ditch, no flow class
- Also mapped (OSM)Shell Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townReeves Corner · ~0.2 mi
- Nearest rail line~9.7 mi · other track
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelMaverik · ~9.7 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesLynn's Superfoods · ~9.6 mi
- Hospital / clinicSouth Big Horn County Hospital · ~11.1 mi
- HardwareGreybull Building Center · ~9.8 mi
EV charging — from Red Gulch/Alkali Backcountry Byway · Bureau of Land Management · WY — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger48.6 mi straight-line NE — Sheridan, WY - Tesla Supercharger (at a hotel) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 4 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 · 2 within 50 · 10 within 100 · 23 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS49.0 mi — SHERIDAN MOTORS CPE250, Sheridan
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO49.0 mi — SHERIDAN MOTORS CPE250, Sheridan
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)35.0 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.
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Shell WY Tesla Chargers - Tesla Destination, Shell, 4.2 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 102520 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Red Gulch/Alkali Backcountry Byway · Bureau of Land Management · WY — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomRed Gulch Dino Tracksite : Toilet · ~4.6 mi SE · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletPost Creek · ~10.0 mi NE · USFS
- Portable toiletShell Falls Wayside · ~13.0 mi E · USFS
- RestroomTornado · ~15.7 mi E · USFS
Coming out here — Red Gulch/Alkali Backcountry Byway · Bureau of Land Management · WY
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Shell Canal as a canal or ditch (no flow class in the record), under 0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). The record carries no flow class for it. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 3.7% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~9.7 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as other track. The nearest track the atlas classes as a main line is ~9.8 mi from the pin. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in 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 Red Gulch/Alkali Backcountry Byway elsewhere
Other camps near Red Gulch/Alkali Backcountry Byway
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Trapper Creek Wsa~12.4 mi
- Alkali Creek Wsa~16.5 mi
- Shell Creek~17.0 mi · fee
- Ranger Creek Campground~17.9 mi
The unit that manages Red Gulch/Alkali Backcountry Byway
Red Gulch/Alkali Backcountry Byway is in the Worland Field Office, Wind River Bighorn Basin 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 — Red Gulch/Alkali Backcountry Byway
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).
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 Red Gulch/Alkali Backcountry Byway
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 — Red Gulch/Alkali Backcountry Byway
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Dumping grey & black →Off-grid communication →All field notes →