Rim Campground (Muddy Mountain)

Bureau of Land Management recreation data

Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.

BLM fee campground in the Muddy Mountain Environmental Education Area above Casper -- the cheapest developed site in this batch. FEE, BLM's own words: "$7.00/night and $3.00/night for 2nd vehicle. Access Pass and Senior Pass Holders receive half off camping rates. Cash or check is accepted." CASH OR CHECK -- no card. STAY LIMIT: BLM's own field, "14 days". SITES: "Rim Campground provides 8 camping sites that include level tent pads and fire rings, with a few pull-through sites for large trailers/RVs. One double-vaulted toilet is provided." WATER: "Potable water is not available at this campground, but is available at the nearby Lodgepole Campground." ACCESS: from Casper, WY 251 to the top of Casper Mountain, then County Road 505 about 3 miles to the end of the pavement, 2 more miles to Circle Drive, then 4.5 miles of BLM gravel. NOTE FOR THE REVIEWER: we already carry one generic "Muddy Mountain Environmental Education Area" row ~434 m away. Muddy Mountain actually has TWO campgrounds -- Rim (this row) and Lodgepole (which is what our existing pin is closest to, 281 m). Consider whether to keep the generic area row at all once both campgrounds are pinned. 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/274354/1 --- NIGHT-SHIFT REVIEW 2026-08-19 (nightshift-verified) -- APPROVED. Re-fetched https://www.blm.gov/visit/search-details/274354/1 this fire. The page is live and still titled "Rim Campground | Wyoming". The Fees section still reads "$7.00/night and $3.00/night for 2nd vehicle. Access Pass and Senior Pass Holders receive half off camping rates. Cash or check is accepted.", the Stay Limit field still reads "14 days", and the July 2025 accessibility text is still there, including "Potable water is not available at this campground, but is available at the nearby Lodgepole Campground." BLM's printed Geographic Coordinates are still 42.680857, -106.25858, 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). CHECKED AND KEPT despite sitting only 434 m from the published "Muddy Mountain Environmental Education Area" (blm/1102). They are not the same record: blm/1102 is the EEA area pin, and BLM's own directions for this campground say "Upon entering the EEA, continue straight and travel .25 miles to the campground" -- 0.25 mi is 402 m, almost exactly the offset we measure. Two different things, correctly 400 m apart. WORTH SOMEONE ELSE'S ATTENTION, OUT OF SCOPE FOR THIS FIRE: blm/1102 is published with the blanket note "USFS/BLM authoritative: free & dispersed", but the EEA it points at contains two BLM fee campgrounds -- this one at $7 and Lodgepole at $7 (BLM GIS layer 8, read 2026-08-19). That published row may be overstating "free". Nothing this row claims has changed since it was written.

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.

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.