Wick Brothers/Beumee WHMA — Camping Area #3
SEASONAL CLOSURE -- READ THIS FIRST: Human Presence Closure Dec 1- May 15 Wyoming closes many of these areas in winter and spring to protect wintering big game, and a closure is not advisory. Confirm the current dates with Game and Fish before you drive out. This is a designated campground on the Wick Brothers/Beumee Wildlife Habitat Management Area in Carbon County, land acquired or administered by the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission. The area runs about 23,408 acres. 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: Motor Vehicle Travel Restricted to Roads Marked By white arrow on the Wildlife Habitat Management Area. Access is limited to WGFC lands or easements marked with department signs. Roads/Parking not plowed during winter. 14-day camping limit. Exceptions noted for this area: LANDS SOUTH OF I-80: Closed to Human Presence from Dec 1 - May 15 LANDS NORTH OF I-80: Open all year & No collection of shed antlers or horns Jan 1 - May 1 @ 6 AM. Amenities listed by Game and Fish for the area: Parking, Handicap Accessible Comfort Station, Kiosk, 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 Laramie regional office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Wick Brothers/Beumee WHMA — Camping Area #3 · Wick Brothers/Beumee WHMA · WY
- @Mail8 mi
- FFuel11 mi
- GGrocery18 mi
- WWater29 mi
- OOutfitter29 mi
- MMechanic30 mi
- EVEV fast charger40 mi
- DDump41 mi
- RxPharmacy42 mi
- HHardware42 mi
- AAir-up42 mi
- LLaundry42 mi
- +Urgent care42 mi
The read: water is a real 29-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 11 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 40-mi run (and back).
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 — Wick Brothers/Beumee WHMA — Camping Area #3
Nearby & resupply — around Wick Brothers/Beumee WHMA — Camping Area #3 · Wick Brothers/Beumee WHMA · WY (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureWagonhound Creek · ~0.5 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townArlington · ~4.7 mi
- Nearest rail linenone mapped within 10 mi
- Nearest highway~0.3 mi · Interstate 80
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelConoco · ~11.2 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesSunburst mercantile · ~18.0 mi
EV charging — from Wick Brothers/Beumee WHMA — Camping Area #3 · Wick Brothers/Beumee WHMA · WY — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger40.5 mi straight-line SE — Laramie, 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 · 5 within 50 · 40 within 100 · 267 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS44.2 mi — LARAMIE AUTO CENTER, LARAMIE
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO85.1 mi — MAVERIK SB SPRINGS PL1, Steamboat Springs
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)40.6 mi — FIRE STATION 3 COL FS3 GW, Laramie, WY · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Copperline Lodge, Saratoga, 29.7 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for guests only · AFDC lists it “Free; donations accepted”
- 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 102516 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Wick Brothers/Beumee WHMA — Camping Area #3 · Wick Brothers/Beumee WHMA · WY — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaWagonhound rest area · at this camp
- Vault / pit toiletBow River · ~9.1 mi SW · USFS
- RestroomCrater Lake · ~10.3 mi S · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletDeep Creek · ~11.8 mi S · USFS
Coming out here — Wick Brothers/Beumee WHMA — Camping Area #3 · Wick Brothers/Beumee WHMA · WY
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Wagonhound Creek as a perennial stream, ~0.5 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 15.9% — steep. 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 80 is mapped ~0.3 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 Wick Brothers/Beumee WHMA — Camping Area #3 elsewhere
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If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Wick Brothers/Beumee WHMA — Camping Area #4~1.8 mi
- Wick Brothers/Beumee WHMA — Camping Area #2~2.6 mi
- Wick Brothers/Beumee WHMA — Camping Area #6~3.3 mi
- Wick Brothers/Beumee WHMA — Camping Area~6.2 mi
The unit that manages Wick Brothers/Beumee WHMA — Camping Area #3
Camping Area #3 is in Wick Brothers/Beumee WHMA, managed by Wyoming Game & Fish Department. 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.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Sand Lake at 10,080 ft, about 12 miles away. It sits about 2,373 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 — Wick Brothers/Beumee WHMA — Camping Area #3
What we don’t know about Wick Brothers/Beumee WHMA — Camping Area #3
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
- 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