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Slate Creek Campground
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · WY · 41.98271, -110.04544
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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 Slate Creek Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,379 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Slate Creek CampgroundNIFC · 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 Slate Creek Campground · 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
- @Mail21 mi
- FFuel21 mi
- GGrocery28 mi
- HHardware28 mi
- MMechanic32 mi
- LLaundry47 mi
- +Urgent care48 mi
- EVEV fast charger49 mi
- RxPharmacy50 mi
- WWater51 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 51-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 21 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 49-mi run (and back).
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 — Slate Creek Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
6,379 ft
Ground slope
0.3% · flat
Nearest rail line
~6.8 mi · industrial lead
State
WY
Coordinates
41.98271, -110.04544
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Slate Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · WY (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureGreen River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townFontenelle · ~1.7 mi
- Nearest rail line~6.8 mi · industrial lead
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~21.0 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesRidley's · ~28.4 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~28.5 mi
EV charging — from Slate Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · WY — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger49.0 mi straight-line SE — Rock Springs, WY - Tesla Supercharger (at a shopping center) · 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 · 20 within 100 · 168 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS49.0 mi — Kroger Smiths 182 (Rock Springs, WY), Rock Springs
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO68.6 mi — BATTERY PARK 2, Afton
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)48.9 mi — Fremont Motors, Rock Springs, WY (at a car dealership) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-06-06 · hours: 8am-6pm M-F, 9am-5pm 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 102519 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Slate Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · WY — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomSlate Creek Campground-Restroom 2 Building · at this camp · BoR
- RestroomSlate Creek Campground-Restroom 1 Building · ~0.2 mi N · BoR
- RestroomWeeping Rock Campground-Restroom Building · ~2.6 mi N · BoR
- RestroomTail Race Campground-Restroom Building · ~3.0 mi N · BoR
Coming out here — Slate Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · WY
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Green River as a perennial river, ~0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 0.3% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~6.8 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as an industrial lead. No track the atlas classes as a main line is mapped within 10 mi. 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.
- 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 Slate Creek Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Slate Creek Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Tailrace Camp Area~3.0 mi
- Fontenelle Creek Recreation Area~8.6 mi · fee
- Names Hill~15.0 mi
The unit that manages Slate Creek Campground
Slate Creek Campground is in the Kemmerer 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.
How we know this — Slate Creek Campground
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
FREE BLM campground on the west bank of the Green River, ~4 miles south of Fontenelle Reservoir and just north of Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge. EVIDENCE FOR FREE, BLM's own description verbatim: "Free facilities for this area include designated camping sites, 2 ADA accessible vault toilets, picnic areas and fishing access to the Green River." CAVEAT ON THAT EVIDENCE: BLM's live page has NO Fees section for this site, so the free claim rests entirely on the word "Free" inside that sentence rather than on a Fees field -- weaker than the Buffalo Creek or Blucher Creek rows. A reviewer should confirm before shipping. CULTURAL SITE: "This site is near historic resources. Please do not collect or damage these resources." ACCESS: "west side of the Green River, approximately four miles south of Fontenelle Reservoir, off Highway 372." BLM's standard stay limit on Wyoming public land is 14 days; where BLM states it on the site's own page it is quoted below. 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/14716/1
--- NIGHT-SHIFT REVIEW 2026-08-19 (nightshift-verified) -- APPROVED.
Re-fetched https://www.blm.gov/visit/search-details/14716/1 this fire. The page is live and still titled "Slate Creek Campground | Wyoming". The sentence the free claim rests on is still there verbatim: "Free facilities for this area include designated camping sites, 2 ADA accessible vault toilets, picnic areas and fishing access to the Green River." BLM's printed Geographic Coordinates are still 41.982707, -110.045444, 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). THE CAVEAT THIS ROW RAISED IS STILL TRUE AND I AM APPROVING IN SPITE OF IT, so read it: the page still has NO Fees section, and BLM's GIS fee attribute for this facility is blank too, so "free" rests on BLM's own use of the word "Free" inside a description sentence rather than on a fee field. That is BLM saying it in BLM's own words about this exact site, which I judge good enough to ship -- but it is weaker footing than the "No Fee." rows, and worth a call to the Kemmerer Field Office (307-828-4500) if it is ever challenged. Nothing this row claims has changed since it was written.
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 Slate Creek 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.
- 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 — Slate Creek Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Dumping grey & black →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →