Seminoe Reservoir-Bow Arm PAA Campground
FIRE BAN: WGFD flags this area as 'Fire Ban is in Effect for this Area' -- check before you plan on any open flame. ACCESS DATES: Open year round Confirm with Game and Fish before you go -- these areas commonly close seasonally for wintering wildlife. This is a designated campground on the Seminoe Reservoir-Bow Arm Public Access Area in Carbon County, land acquired or administered by the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission. The area runs about 3 acres. Note what a Public Access Area is: Game and Fish describes PAAs as "permanent or long-term easements, or Wyoming Game and Fish Commission-owned land managed by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department for allowing public access for recreational purposes." So the ground under you may belong to a private landowner or to another agency -- several PAAs sit on federal land -- while Game and Fish holds the public-access right and its rules are the ones that govern your stay. Do not be surprised by another owner's signage, and respect any posted boundary. Camping here is genuinely free and first come, first served -- and unlike neighbouring states, Wyoming does NOT make you buy a license or a habitat/entrance pass simply to be on the land or to camp. (If you intend to hunt or fish while you are there, that is a different matter: you need the appropriate Wyoming license and a conservation stamp for that activity.) The rules that bind: you may only camp in the designated spots, no more than 14 consecutive days, and you cannot leave a camp unattended more than 48 hours. After you hit the limit you have to be off that same Game and Fish land for at least 72 hours before returning. Some areas post a limit shorter than 14 days on the sign at the entrance -- if the sign says less, the sign wins. Area-specific regulations from Game and Fish: Access road and parking area are not plowed in winter. 14-day camping limit. Amenities listed by Game and Fish for the area: Boat Ramp, Comfort Station, Parking These are working wildlife areas first and campgrounds second -- they exist for habitat, so expect gravel, expect stock, and leave it cleaner than you found it. We have not visited; confirm current conditions and closures with the Wyoming Game and Fish Casper regional office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Seminoe Reservoir-Bow Arm PAA Campground · Wyoming Game & Fish · WY
- @Mail14 mi
- FFuel20 mi
- GGrocery20 mi
- EVEV fast charger29 mi
- MMechanic30 mi
- WWater31 mi
- OOutfitter38 mi
- +Urgent care58 mi
- RxPharmacy58 mi
- HHardware60 mi
The read: water is a real 31-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 20 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Dump, 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 — Seminoe Reservoir-Bow Arm PAA Campground
Nearby & resupply — around Seminoe Reservoir-Bow Arm PAA Campground · Wyoming Game & Fish · WY (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureSeminoe Reservoir · under 0.1 mi · USGS: reservoir, no flow class
- Also mapped (OSM)Seminole Reservoir (water) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townSeminoe Dam · ~13.3 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelConoco · ~24.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesWalmart Supercenter · ~29.3 mi
EV charging — from Seminoe Reservoir-Bow Arm PAA Campground · Wyoming Game & Fish · WY — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger29.3 mi straight-line SW — Rawlins, 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 · 3 within 50 · 11 within 100 · 71 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS29.5 mi — Kroger-City Market 412 (Rawlins, WY), Rawlins
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO107.4 mi — MAVERIK SB SPRINGS PL1, Steamboat Springs
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)30.1 mi — Fremont Motor Rawlins (at a car dealership) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-10-13 · hours: 8am-6pm M-Sat
- 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 102518 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Seminoe Reservoir-Bow Arm PAA Campground · Wyoming Game & Fish · WY — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomSand Mountain Day Use Area Bathroom Building · ~8.6 mi NW · BoR
- RestroomSunshine Beach Restroom Building · ~10.9 mi NW · BoR
- RestroomSeminoe WSP Sunshine Beach bathroom Building · ~11.1 mi NW · BoR
- RestroomSeminoe WSP Sunshine Beach bathroom Building · ~11.1 mi NW · BoR
Coming out here — Seminoe Reservoir-Bow Arm PAA Campground · Wyoming Game & Fish · WY
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Seminoe Reservoir as a reservoir (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 1.6% — flat. 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.
- 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.
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If this one is full, gated or washed out.
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- Prior Flat Campground~17.0 mi
Who holds the land at Seminoe Reservoir-Bow Arm PAA Campground
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Seminoe Reservoir State Park, manager on record: Wyoming Department of Parks and Cultural Resouces (state). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Seminoe Reservoir-Bow Arm PAA Campground
What we don’t know about Seminoe Reservoir-Bow Arm PAA Campground
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.
- Whether the fire rule stated above still stands today — what we have is a dated reading of the agency's listing, not a live restriction feed
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- 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