Scab Creek Small Vehicle Campground

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.

FREE BLM campground inside the Scab Creek Recreation Area, the Wind River Range trailhead for the Bridger Wilderness. FEE, BLM's own Fees section: "No Fee." STAY LIMIT: BLM's own field, "14 Days". BLM's description: "The small vehicle campground is located within the Scab Creek Recreation Area. It provides 12 sites, including one group site. No pack stock are allowed in this campground. Scab Lake trailhead is located at the entrance to the campground, and Scab Creek trailhead is located along the road before entering the campground, at the backpacker parking area. There is a vault toilette and potable water available." [sic] NO PACK STOCK HERE -- stock users want the Large Vehicle Campground ~660 m away, which has corrals. ACCESS: from Pinedale, US 191 south 12 mi, WY 353 east 7 mi, Scab Creek Road 1.45 mi, then Scab Creek Access Road roughly 5.5 mi. NOTE FOR THE REVIEWER: we already carry a "Scab Creek Recreation Area" row ~2.6 km away and a "Scab Creek Primitive Area" row; this is the specific campground inside that area, not a duplicate of either. 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/261706/1 --- NIGHT-SHIFT REVIEW 2026-08-19 (nightshift-verified) -- APPROVED. Re-fetched https://www.blm.gov/visit/search-details/261706/1 this fire. The page is live and still titled "Small Vehicle Campground | Wyoming". The Fees section still reads "No Fee.", the Stay Limit field still reads "14 Days", and the description still says "It provides 12 sites, including one group site. No pack stock are allowed in this campground... There is a vault toilette and potable water available." [sic] BLM's printed Geographic Coordinates are still 42.821269, -109.554511, 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). NAME: BLM titles this page just "Small Vehicle Campground". This row keeps the disambiguated "Scab Creek Small Vehicle Campground" because BLM also publishes a bare "Large Vehicle Campground" 660 m away in the same recreation area -- a deliberate rename, not a mismatch. The published "Scab Creek Recreation Area" (blm/689) is 2.6 km off and is the containing area, not this campground. Nothing this row claims has changed since it was written.

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.