Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Yellow Pine
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · WY · 41.25473, -105.41089
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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 — Yellow Pine · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · WY
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 717 (Yellow Pine Cg), 80 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 4 – moderate degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 717 (Yellow Pine Cg), 80 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 717 (Yellow Pine Cg): “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 Yellow Pine
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 8,346 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Yellow PineNIFC · 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 Yellow Pine · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · WY
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel7 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- RxPharmacy8 mi
- +Urgent care8 mi
- MMechanic8 mi
- EVEV fast charger8 mi
- OOutfitter9 mi
- @Mail9 mi
- HHardware10 mi
- LLaundry10 mi
- AAir-up10 mi
- DDump11 mi
- WWater31 mi
- ShShower36 mi
- PPropane50 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 31-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 7 mi out.
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 — Yellow Pine
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
8,346 ft
Ground slope
6.8% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~7.7 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~1.7 mi · US Hwy 30
State
WY
Coordinates
41.25473, -105.41089
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Yellow Pine · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · WY (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureSouth Lodgepole Creek · ~0.2 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townThe Buttes · ~9.9 mi
- Nearest rail line~7.7 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~1.7 mi · US Hwy 30
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~1.7 mi
- FuelTumbleweed Express · ~6.9 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~11.0 mi
- GroceriesWalmart Supercenter · ~7.5 mi
- PharmacyFamily care clinic · ~10.5 mi
- Hospital / clinicSpine and Injury Clinic of Laramie · ~7.9 mi
- HardwareFortman Glass · ~10.5 mi
EV charging — from Yellow Pine · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · WY — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger8.1 mi straight-line NW — Laramie GM Auto Center (at a car dealership) · Non-Networked · CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-06-06 · hours: 8am-7pm M-Sat · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach3 within 25 mi · 18 within 50 · 136 within 100 · 349 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)11.8 mi — Laramie, WY - Tesla Supercharger, Laramie
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO43.7 mi — MAVERIK WELLINGTON PL1, Wellington
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)8.1 mi — Laramie Range · Blink Network · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Pricing at the fast chargerFree (as listed by AFDC)
- 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 321174 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Yellow Pine · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · WY — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletYellow Pine · at this camp · USFS
- RestroomPole Creek · ~0.3 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletTie City · ~1.3 mi W · USFS
- Highway rest areaSummit Rest Area · ~1.8 mi SW
Coming out here — Yellow Pine · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · WY
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps South Lodgepole Creek as a perennial stream, ~0.2 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 6.8% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~7.7 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. 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.
- US Hwy 30 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 Yellow Pine elsewhere
Other camps near Yellow Pine
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Pole Creek~0.3 mi · fee
- Tie City~1.3 mi · fee
- Vedauwoo~7.0 mi · fee
- Gelatt Lake PAA Campground~22.3 mi
The unit that manages Yellow Pine
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Yellow Pine are set by Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Crow Creek at 8,320 ft, about 2 miles away. That is about the height of this camp, so it is a fair proxy. 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 — Yellow Pine
Source
U.S. Forest Service 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
Developed FEE campground (not free) - review | auto:usfs-fee 2026-08-20: US Forest Service developed campground, agency coordinates, agency states a fee. No dollar amount in the agency record -- expect a charge and confirm the current rate before you go. Not field-verified.
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 Yellow Pine
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 — Yellow Pine
When the high country opens →Winter vs summer roads →Finding water out here →Leave no trace →All field notes →