Agency-listedUSFSFreeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Sundance Horse Camp
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · WY · 44.44266, -104.34835
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service 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.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Sundance Horse Camp · U.S. Forest Service · WY
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 821 (Sundance Cmpgrd/Trlhd), 30 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as crushed aggregate or gravel surface and maintenance level 4 – moderate degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 821 (Sundance Cmpgrd/Trlhd), 30 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 821 (Sundance Cmpgrd/Trlhd): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
From the Forest Service's own Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW, Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026), straight-line from the pin to the nearest mapped segment. The nearest segment is not necessarily the way in, a maintenance level is the agency's class and not a report on today, and a road's season is the road's — it is not a campground order. What the levels mean → What an MVUM is →
What the record says about the site — Sundance Horse Camp · U.S. Forest Service · WY
- Tent camping
- Trailers and RVs fit
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Sundance Horse Camp
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4,813 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Sundance Horse CampNIFC · 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 Sundance Horse Camp · U.S. Forest Service · WY
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel2 mi
- GGrocery2 mi
- @Mail15 mi
- WWater20 mi
- EVEV fast charger23 mi
- MMechanic23 mi
- LLaundry24 mi
- HHardware24 mi
- RxPharmacy24 mi
- +Urgent care24 mi
- DDump29 mi
- ShShower29 mi
- AAir-up58 mi
- OOutfitter58 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 2 mi out.
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 — Sundance Horse Camp
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
4,813 ft
Ground slope
7.9% · gentle
Nearest highway
~1.7 mi · Interstate 90
State
WY
Coordinates
44.44266, -104.34835
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Sundance Horse Camp · U.S. Forest Service · WY (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureRocky Ford Creek · ~0.2 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Nearest townSundance · ~2.9 mi
- Nearest rail linenone mapped within 10 mi
- Nearest highway~1.7 mi · Interstate 90
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelTower Valley Ag · ~20.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump stationVisitor Center Dump Station · ~29.2 mi
- GroceriesStore · ~2.7 mi
- PharmacySafeway · ~24.5 mi
- Hospital / clinicCrook County Medical Services District · ~2.7 mi
EV charging — from Sundance Horse Camp · U.S. Forest Service · WY — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger23.2 mi straight-line E — Spearfish, SD - Tesla Supercharger (at a gas station) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 6 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 reach1 within 25 mi · 3 within 50 · 16 within 100 · 26 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS30.3 mi — ELKHORNRIDGE EV 1, Spearfish
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO30.3 mi — ELKHORNRIDGE EV 1, Spearfish
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)3.0 mi — Powder River Energy Corp, Sundance, WY (at a street parking) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-05-12 · hours: 24 hours daily
- 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 102412 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Sundance Horse Camp · U.S. Forest Service · WY — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletSundance · at this camp · USFS
- RestroomSundance · at this camp · USFS
- Highway rest areaEast Sundance Rest Area · ~2.0 mi S
- Vault / pit toiletReuter · ~3.9 mi W · USFS
Coming out here — Sundance Horse Camp · U.S. Forest Service · WY
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Rocky Ford Creek as an intermittent stream, ~0.2 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as intermittent — expect it dry for part of the year. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 7.9% — 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.
- No rail line is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) — abandoned, lifted and out-of-service track excluded, so a rail-trail does not count as one.
- Interstate 90 is mapped ~1.7 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- 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 Sundance Horse Camp elsewhere
Other camps near Sundance Horse Camp
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Reuter~3.9 mi · fee
- Cook Lake~10.9 mi · fee
- Bearlodge~14.7 mi · fee
- Timon Campground~19.5 mi · fee
Who holds the land at Sundance Horse Camp
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Black Hills National Forest, manager on record: Forest Service (federal). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Cole Canyon at 5,930 ft, about 4 miles away. It sits about 1,117 ft higher than this camp, so treat it as a guide rather than a reading for this spot. We do not repeat a depth here, because any number we stored would be stale by the time you read it — the station publishes today's.
How we know this — Sundance Horse Camp
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
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
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
Nearest MVUM road
US Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW_MVUM_01, layer 1), Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026. Straight-line distance from the pin to the nearest mapped segment within 1 mi; surface type, maintenance level and open dates are the agency's own values for that segment, expanded from its codes and otherwise unedited. Nothing here says which road reaches the site.
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 Sundance Horse Camp
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 that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- Whether the site itself closes on its own schedule — only the road's season is on record
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- 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 — Sundance Horse Camp
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Cold-weather camping →Camping with a dog →All field notes →