Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
The Narrows Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · WY · 43.10296, -109.94183
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. 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 — The Narrows Campground · Bridger-Teton National Forest · WY
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 370730C (Narrows Cg Loop A), 10 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 2 – high-clearance vehicles.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 370730C (Narrows Cg Loop A), 10 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 370730C (Narrows Cg Loop A): “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 →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at The Narrows Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 7,865 ft.
Fire & smoke — around The Narrows 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 The Narrows Campground · Bridger-Teton National Forest · WY
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- DDump11 mi
- GGrocery13 mi
- MMechanic16 mi
- FFuel16 mi
- HHardware17 mi
- LLaundry17 mi
- +Urgent care17 mi
- OOutfitter17 mi
- @Mail17 mi
- EVEV fast charger17 mi
- WWater27 mi
- RxPharmacy48 mi
- ShShower49 mi
- AAir-up50 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 27-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 13 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 — The Narrows Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
7,865 ft
Ground slope
5.1% · gentle
State
WY
Coordinates
43.10296, -109.94183
Cost
Fee · priced on the land manager's own page (recreation.gov, read 2026-09-18)
Nearby & resupply — around The Narrows Campground · Bridger-Teton National Forest · WY (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureNew Fork Lakes · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Also mapped (OSM)New Fork River (river) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townCora · ~11.4 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelPhillips 66 · ~16.1 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~10.7 mi
- GroceriesRim station · ~13.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicHospital · ~16.6 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~16.9 mi
EV charging — from The Narrows Campground · Bridger-Teton National Forest · WY — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger16.8 mi straight-line S — Maybell Avenue Parking Lot, Pinedale, WY · EV Connect · CCS · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 5 within 50 · 11 within 100 · 52 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)49.6 mi — Jackson, WY - Tesla Supercharger, Jackson
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO48.8 mi — TOWN OF JACKSON GARAGE DC #1, Jackson
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)33.5 mi — Black Bear Inn, Dubois, WY (at an inn) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2023-03-08 · 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 307768 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around The Narrows Campground · Bridger-Teton National Forest · WY — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletThe Narrows Campground · at this camp · USFS
- RestroomNew Fork Trailhead · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletNew Fork Lake Boating Site · ~1.1 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletNew Fork Lake Campground · ~2.0 mi SW · USFS
Coming out here — The Narrows Campground · Bridger-Teton National Forest · WY
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps New Fork Lakes as a perennial lake or pond, ~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 5.1% — 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 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.
Open The Narrows Campground elsewhere
Other camps near The Narrows Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- New Fork Lake Campground~2.0 mi · fee
- New Fork Group Campground~2.0 mi · fee
- Willow Lake Campground~8.0 mi · fee
- Soda Lake WHMA — East Point~10.5 mi
The unit that manages The Narrows Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at The Narrows Campground are set by Bridger-Teton National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is New Fork Lake at 8,380 ft, less than a mile away. It sits about 515 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 — The Narrows Campground
Fee note
$12 a night per the Recreation.gov page, read 18 Sep 2026: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/232899
Reserve
https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/232899
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) | Fee 2026-09-18: $12 per night, by site type and season (Recreation.gov rates table). Source: https://www.recreation.gov/api/camps/campgrounds/232899/rates (fee_backfill, figure verified on that page).
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 The Narrows 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 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 — The Narrows Campground
When the high country opens →Winter vs summer roads →Finding water out here →How to read this page →All field notes →