Sweetwater Guard Station 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 on the Sweetwater River at the foot of the Wind River Range, with the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail on the far bank. FEE, BLM's own Fees section: "No fee, no reservations." STAY LIMIT: BLM's own field, "14 days". SITES: "The Sweetwater Guard Station Campground has 3 walk-in campsites and 8 pull-in sites featuring picnic tables and fire rings at each." FACILITIES: "a pit toilet and trash receptacles that are secured against bears with a carabineer-type clip. There are no hookups or potable water available. This free, accessible site is first come, first served." SEASONAL -- IMPORTANT: "The access road is an improved dirt road, typically well-maintained during summer months. There is no winter maintenance, and the site is typically accessible only by snowmobile during winter." NEAREST TOWN: BLM's own figures, 73 miles from Rock Springs and 69 miles from Lander. 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/272295/1 --- NIGHT-SHIFT REVIEW 2026-08-19 (nightshift-verified) -- APPROVED. Re-fetched https://www.blm.gov/visit/search-details/272295/1 this fire. The page is live and still titled "Sweetwater Guard Station Campground | Wyoming". The Fees section still reads "No fee, no reservations." and the Stay Limit field still reads "14 days". The description still says "There are no hookups or potable water available. This free, accessible site is first come, first served." BLM's printed Geographic Coordinates are still 42.561772, -109.061887, 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 published row nearest this pin is "Sweetwater River" (blm/729), 1.3 km away -- that is BLM rec-area 16803, an area pin carried at 2-decimal precision, not this campground. Kept both. 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.