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Powder River Campground

3 RV Sites, 8 Tent Sites

Powder River Campground in Kaycee, Wyoming, offers full-hookup RV sites with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and tent camping just off Interstate 25, with rigs accepted to 50 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Fire pits, picnic tables, laundry, and site WiFi serve travelers in the heart of Johnson County's Powder River Basin. Back-in sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp, sized to 50 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Tent sites cover simpler camping. A dump station, laundry, restrooms, showers, firewood, a boutique shop, and WiFi handle the practical side. Passport America and military discounts are honored. One vehicle is allowed per site, with an extra vehicle fee of $5 per night on arrival, and refunds do not include service and credit card processing fees. On-site facilities are practical rather than programmed. Hiking and boating run from the area, and off-roading is nearby — this is a base for the surrounding country rather than a destination in itself. Pets are welcome. Kaycee sits in the Powder River Basin, cowboy country in the most literal sense, where nineteenth-century open range cattle culture played out in the same red-bluff canyon and sagebrush landscape that surrounds the campground today. The Big Horn Mountain foothills are close, and Johnson County remains one of Wyoming's least-visited but most historically layered communities — the Johnson County War played out here, and the tourism development that reshaped other I-25 and US-87 towns largely passed it by. Summer interstate traffic is the peak. Reserve ahead for July and August.

from $25/night

Shell Campground

7 RV Sites

Shell Campground in Shell, Wyoming, offers seven full-hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 50 feet, at the base of the Big Horn Mountains on Highway 14. Open all year with cabins, a general store, and a community fire pit, it is the closest full-hookup campground to the range's dramatic western escarpment. Seven sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp in back-in and pull-through configurations, sized to 50 feet. Cabins round out the accommodations. A general store, propane fills, laundry, restrooms, showers, firewood, and WiFi handle the practical side, and the campground stays open year-round — genuinely useful on a mountain route that sees traffic in every season. With seven sites, reserve rather than counting on availability. Pets are welcome. A community fire pit anchors the evenings, with picnicking on the grounds and mountains rising immediately west. The Old Shell Store is a block and a half away, serving what the locals will tell you are the best burgers around. The position is the point. Highway 14 is the principal western approach to Bighorn National Forest and the main route connecting the Big Horn Basin to Yellowstone and Grand Teton. Shell Falls is 15 minutes up the highway, the Big Horn National Forest five minutes, and the Antelope Butte Recreation Area 20 — with skiing there in winter and a national park within reach. Summer drives the heaviest traffic on the mountain route. With seven sites at the base of Shell Canyon, reserve well ahead.

from $40/night

Crippled Spider RV Park & Campground

20 Tent Sites, 1 Wagon

Crippled Spider RV Park and Campground sits on US Highway 20 in Thermopolis, Wyoming, in Hot Springs County—the self-designated hot spring capital of the world, where the largest mineral hot spring on Earth produces five million gallons of thermal water daily at the state-owned Hot Springs State Park. The campground's position in Thermopolis gives it an anchor attraction that is genuinely without parallel among thermal destinations in the United States: free public access to outdoor mineral pools at a state park within minutes of the campground, supplemented by the Wyoming Dinosaur Center and the Big Horn River's blue-ribbon trout fishery in a small, genuinely Western town that sees a fraction of the tourist traffic its natural assets would generate if it were more conveniently located. Nineteen large full-hookup pull-through sites with 20, 30, and 50-amp service, grills, and fire pits accommodate RV campers. Five cabins provide enclosed accommodation. Tent sites complete the accommodation range. Glamping in restored period sheep wagons—the distinctive round-roofed portable shelters that Wyoming sheepherders used through the early twentieth century—provides a historically resonant accommodation option that distinguishes the campground from standard alternatives. An on-site animal zoo with buffalo, goats, turkeys, ducks, and other animals is a family attraction unique to the campground itself. Horse pens, horse paddocks, and an arena serve the equestrian guests and horse camping parties that the Wyoming ranch country surrounding Thermopolis regularly generates. An artesian water well drawing from the Big Horn Mountain aquifer provides a non-mineral fresh water source, and high-speed WiFi, a dog park, and dump station complete the infrastructure. Hot Springs State Park, a short drive from the campground, is the anchor of Thermopolis's identity—the Bighorn Spring produces 2,202 gallons of mineral water per minute at 127 degrees Fahrenheit, fed through a system of cooling flumes into the state park's outdoor terraced pools and into the commercial bathhouses and the Big Springs free public pool, which provides mineral soaking access at no cost to any visitor. The park also maintains a bison herd on the valley floor and hiking trails along the Wind River canyon rim that provide views across the Bighorn Basin's geological drama—this is the landscape where the tilted strata of the Owl Creek Mountains record 600 million years of Earth's history in a stratigraphic column visible from the canyon overlooks. The Wyoming Dinosaur Center, one of the most significant dinosaur research facilities in the American West, provides a museum experience built around the active excavation sites in the Bighorn Basin—the center's displays include some of the largest dinosaur specimens ever excavated in Wyoming, and the "dig for a day" program allows visitors to participate in actual paleontological fieldwork on active excavation sites near town. The Wind River Canyon Scenic Byway, south of Thermopolis, passes through a canyon where the Bighorn River cuts through strata ranging from Precambrian basement rock to Permian formations in one of the most complete geological cross-sections accessible by road in the United States. Crippled Spider RV Park operates year-round in the Bighorn Basin climate where Thermopolis's position in a thermal valley moderates winter temperatures compared to the surrounding high-altitude terrain—the town is one of the warmest inhabited locations in Wyoming in winter, partly a function of the thermal spring activity and partly the sheltered basin position. Summer is peak season when the hot springs, dinosaur center, and Big Horn River combine to fill the campground with visitors from across the region, and fall brings the additional draw of elk season in the surrounding Bighorn Mountains.

from $20/night

Tower Valley RV Park

14 RV Sites

Tower Valley RV Park in Hulett, Wyoming, offers 14 full-hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 50 feet, in the Wyoming Black Hills near Devils Tower. Every site is back-in with generous room to maneuver, and kayak rentals are available on the creek. Fourteen back-in sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp connections, sized to 50 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Every site is back-in, but there is plenty of room for maneuvering — worth knowing rather than assuming tight quarters. One practical detail the park calls out: not all hookups are on the driver's side, and those sites are identified as passenger-side, so check when booking if it matters for your setup. Pets are welcome. A creek runs the property with kayak rentals available, and canoeing and kayaking are the main on-site recreation. The amenity set is deliberately simple — this is a comfortable base rather than a resort. Hulett sits in Crook County on WY-24 near the Belle Fourche River valley, and the park's real distinction is proximity: it is the closest full-service RV park to Devils Tower National Monument. The nation's first national monument rises 1,267 feet as a volcanic neck visible across the surrounding country, with Belle Fourche River fishing and the Black Hills ponderosa pine forest filling out the area. Summer Devils Tower traffic is the peak, and the August Sturgis rally tightens the whole region. With 14 sites this close to the monument, reserve well ahead.

from $45/night

Grandview Campground & RV Park

51 RV Sites, 15 Tent Sites, 1 Onsite RV/Trailer

Grandview Campground and RV Park in Hardin, Montana, offers 52 RV sites and 15 tent sites with 20, 30, and 50-amp service, ADA-accessible sites, and rigs accepted up to 100 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout, behind a gated entrance. Full-hookup, electric-only, and dry back-in categories join deluxe and pull-through tiers, with a game room, sports courts, and boutique shop. Fifty-two sites span back-in full hookup, back-in 30/50-amp electric only, deluxe back-in full hookup, dry site back-in, and pull-through full hookup categories, carrying water, sewer, and electric where noted with site WiFi, sized to 100 feet, with picnic tables. Read the category carefully — the electric-only and dry tiers carry no water or sewer at the site, and they price accordingly. Accessible sites are available, and 100 feet handles the longest coaches. Fifteen tent sites, cabins, camper rentals, and trailer rentals round out the lodging. A general store, boutique shop, laundry, dump station, restrooms, showers, and recycling handle the practical side. A game room, sports courts, tennis, billiards, walking trails, a playground, and picnicking fill the grounds, with a river nearby, wine and beer tasting, and planned activities through the season. Hardin is the seat of Big Horn County and the gateway to the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. The campground is third-generation family run. Summer is the short, intense Montana season, with the June battle anniversary and reenactments drawing crowds. Reserve well ahead.

from $35/night

Bearlodge Mountain Resort

12 RV Sites, 8 Cabins

Bearlodge Mountain Resort in Sundance, Wyoming, offers 12 RV sites and eight cabins at the foot of the Bear Lodge Mountains, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service on every site. Year-round camping is genuinely possible here — the hydrants are built to work down to twenty below zero, which is rare in northeast Wyoming. Twelve back-in sites carry 20, 30, and 50-amp service across the board, with the west eight sites also carrying water. There are no sewer hookups at the sites, though a dump station is available. Eight cabins provide enclosed lodging. On-site dining covers meals, and site WiFi reaches the property. The freeze-resistant hydrants are the detail that sets this apart — most campgrounds at this latitude shut water off for the winter, and this one does not. The resort serves several distinct purposes: a quiet mountain retreat, a hunting base camp, and an outdoor adventure staging point. The facilities are scaled accordingly — practical rather than programmed, with the surrounding landscape doing the work. Pets are welcome. Sundance sits in Crook County on I-90 at the foot of the Bear Lodge Mountains, in the Wyoming Black Hills. Devils Tower National Monument's volcanic neck is close, and the surrounding ponderosa pine forest and Warren Peaks give the area its outdoor recreation range. The town supplied the Sundance Kid his alias — from the 1887 Crook County jail and courthouse that still stands at Main and 3rd. Year-round operation makes this viable well outside the summer window, with hunting season and winter travel both drawing steadily. Summer Devils Tower traffic is the peak — reserve ahead for July and August.

from $20/night

Windy Waters at Alcova

18 RV Sites

At 21500 Kortes Road alongside the red-hued sandstone bluffs of Alcova Reservoir in Alcova, Wyoming—in Natrona County in the high Wyoming desert where the North Platte River's impoundment behind Alcova Dam created the 2,470-acre reservoir with 117 miles of shoreline that Wyoming's fishing, boating, and windsurfing community built one of the state's most active freshwater recreation cultures around, in the specific empty-sky, red-rock landscape that defines Wyoming's geographic character at an elevation and aridity that no other state quite replicates—Windy Waters at Alcova provides full hookup RV sites on oversized lots with three boat ramps, bathhouses, laundry, WiFi, and two park model rentals in the year-round configuration that serves everything from one-night fishing camp stays to annual seasonal RV residents who spend the Wyoming summer at Alcova's waterfront. The three boat ramps, the oversized lots with boat trailer capacity, and the reservoir's direct adjacency define what Windy Waters is for. Oversized lots—formerly mobile home lot dimensions, providing space substantially larger than standard RV campground sites—accommodate a large motorhome or fifth wheel alongside the truck that towed it and a boat trailer without requiring any three to compete for the same footprint. Full hookup connections with 30 and 50-amp electric, water, and sewer serve the full range of RV electrical requirements. Three boat ramps on the property provide the most direct private reservoir launch access available at any Alcova campground, eliminating the state park boat ramp wait and the parking logistics that the Alcova State Recreation Area's high-traffic summer launch imposes. Bathhouses with toilet and shower facilities, washer and dryer laundry, a general store, and WiFi complete the daily infrastructure. Two fully furnished park model rentals serve guests without RVs or those transitioning between camping setups. Daily, weekly, monthly, seasonal, and annual site rental options reflect the range of guest relationships the property serves. Alcova Reservoir's 117 miles of sandstone and red shale shoreline provide the geological context that makes the lake visually distinctive from the conventional Great Plains reservoir. The reservoir's warm-water fish population—walleye, smallmouth bass, rainbow trout, and perch in the varied thermal layers—along with the wind conditions that the Wyoming high desert reliably generates make Alcova a dual-use water recreation site for both the fishing and the sailing and windsurfing community that the reservoir's specific fetch and prevailing southwest winds make ideal. The walleye fishery is among the most productive in Wyoming, and the spring walleye run draws the state's dedicated walleye fishing community to Alcova from across the region. Pathfinder Reservoir—adjacent to Alcova via the Fremont Canyon corridor—provides the second major reservoir fishing opportunity in the same North Platte River system, with brown trout in the freestone reaches below Pathfinder Dam and the cold tailwater fishery that the Miracle Mile section of the North Platte—one of the most celebrated dry-fly trout stretches in the Rocky Mountain West—extends downstream. Casper, 32 miles northeast, provides the commercial services and the historic Wyoming character that the state's oil-and-ranching culture built into the state's second-largest city. Windy Waters at Alcova is open year-round on the daily-through-annual rate schedule. Summer from June through August represents the peak reservoir recreation season for boating, fishing, and the swimming beaches that Wyoming's high desert sun warms to comfortable temperatures by late June. Ice fishing on Alcova Reservoir in December through February provides the cold-season recreation that Wyoming's long winters make viable for the dedicated ice fishing guest. Book the oversized lot, launch the boat at the private ramp, and let the red-rock reservoir earn the Wyoming high-country lake reputation that 117 miles of sandstone shoreline supports from every approach.

from $50/night

Wyatt's Hideaway Campground

82 RV Sites, 5 Cabins, 34 Tent Sites

Wyatt's Hideaway Campground in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, offers 79 full-hookup RV sites, five cabins, and 34 tent sites on the Belle Fourche River, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 90 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Five site categories span 30-amp and 30/50-amp back-ins and pull-throughs, with 34 tent sites making this unusually tent-friendly for an RV park. Seventy-nine sites run in 30-amp and 30/50-amp back-in and pull-through configurations plus 50-amp pull-throughs, all carrying water, sewer, and electric, sized to 90 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Five cabins and 34 tent sites round out the accommodations. Laundry, restrooms, showers, firewood, and WiFi handle the practical side. On-site recreation is straightforward — a playground, horseshoes, and river fishing directly from the property. The river-adjacent position is the draw, giving anglers access to the Belle Fourche system without a drive. The five site categories are worth reading before you book: the 30-amp options suit smaller trailers, while the 30/50-amp pull-throughs handle big rigs that would struggle elsewhere in the area, and the 90-foot capacity accommodates a long coach with a tow. Laundry and hot showers cover longer stays, and the tent sites sit separately from the RV loops. Pets are welcome. Belle Fourche sits in Butte County near the geographic center of the nation, which puts the Black Hills National Forest south, Devils Tower National Monument west across the Wyoming line, and the Missouri River grasslands east. The town's cattle ranching and rodeo heritage carries the frontier character of the Northern Plains more authentically than the tourist corridors nearer Rapid City. Directions: from the east, take I-90 exit 23 and go 15 miles west on Highway 34 — the campground is on the right immediately after crossing the river. From the west, take I-90 exit 10 north nine miles to Highway 34, then east 2.5 miles; it is on the left just before the river. Summer is peak, and the August Sturgis rally tightens the whole region. Reserve well ahead.

from $30/night

Elkhorn Ridge RV Resort & Cabins

100 RV Sites

Elkhorn Ridge RV Resort and Cabins in Spearfish, South Dakota, offers 100 full-hookup RV sites on the historic Frawley Ranch, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted up to 140 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Back-in and pull-through categories join an outdoor pool, hot tub, disc golf course, and tennis at the northern gateway to the Black Hills. One hundred sites run in back-in and pull-through categories, both carrying water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 140 feet. One hundred forty feet is among the most generous length allowances anywhere and accommodates anything on the road — worth knowing if you tow a trailer behind a long coach. The paved, level pads back up the resort's reputation. A general store, laundry, propane fills, showers, and on-site dining handle the practical side. An outdoor pool and hot tub and sauna anchor the property, with a disc golf course, sports courts, tennis, pickleball, volleyball, basketball, horseshoes, golf cart rentals, walking trails, biking, a playground, and dog park filling the rest. Planned activities run through the season, and a golf course is nearby. The Frawley Ranch carries more than 140 years of pioneering heritage and National Historic Registry status, which gives the grounds a genuine western character that most resorts manufacture. Spearfish Canyon, Deadwood, Mount Rushmore, and Devils Tower are all within reach. Summer is the short, intense Black Hills season, and the Sturgis rally fills the entire region. Reserve as early as you can for August.

from $55 $48/night

Can AM 85 RV Park

15 RV Sites

Three miles from the legendary gaming and historic entertainment district of Deadwood, South Dakota, and ten miles from Sturgis at the heart of the Black Hills' most celebrated motorsport and outdoor recreation corridor, Can AM 85 RV Park provides 15 spacious sites designed for larger rigs in an intimate campground that combines the convenience of a Black Hills base camp with the personal service a smaller-scale operation can provide. Three guest rooms in the main building extend accommodation options for travelers who want a roofed alternative to the RV pad, and the park's full hookups, Wi-Fi, and pet-friendly policy serve the summer visitor population that makes the Black Hills the most-visited outdoor destination in the Great Plains from May through October. Fifteen spacious RV sites with full hookup electric, water, and sewer connections provide the infrastructure for Black Hills exploration from a convenient Deadwood-area base, and the park's focus on larger rigs means that the site geometry accommodates the motorhome-and-tow-car combinations that characterize summer Black Hills travel. Pet-friendly accommodations suit the traveling-with-dogs culture that defines much of the campground's guest demographic, and the Wi-Fi connection supports both the recreational guest researching the day's itinerary and the remote worker who has arranged a Black Hills summer stay. The park is closed from November 1 through early March, reflecting the Black Hills' winter quiet season. Deadwood's Historic District, three miles from the campground, preserves the legendary gambling, storytelling, and outlaw history of one of the West's most mythologized gold rush towns—a Main Street of restored Victorian saloons, gaming parlors, and the Mount Moriah Cemetery where Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane are buried in the most-visited cemetery in South Dakota. The Adams Museum in downtown Deadwood interprets the 1874 Custer Expedition's discovery of gold, the rush of 10,000 miners into the Black Hills in 1876, and the town's evolution from lawless mining camp to the historic gaming destination that 1989 gambling legalization restored to national attention. Mount Rushmore National Memorial, about 35 miles south, provides the Black Hills' most iconic destination in Gutzon Borglum's 60-foot presidential portraits in the Harney Range granite—a sculpture drawing 2.5 million visitors annually and anchoring a full day's itinerary that typically includes Crazy Horse Memorial, Custer State Park's wildlife drives through the country's largest publicly owned bison herd, and the Needles Highway's spectacular granite spire corridor. The 1880 Train in Hill City provides a 20-mile steam and diesel excursion through the Harney Range terrain, and ATV trails in the surrounding Lawrence County terrain give off-highway vehicle riders direct access to the Black Hills backcountry terrain that the campground's proximity to the national forest trailheads serves particularly well. The Black Hills' summer season runs from Memorial Day through Labor Day at peak activity, with the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in early August representing the period of maximum regional visitor concentration—a week when the campground's Deadwood-area address makes it particularly valuable and reservations become essential months in advance. Spring and fall shoulder seasons offer the Black Hills' outdoor recreation menu with dramatically reduced crowds and more competitive campground rates, and the region's fall elk and deer seasons bring the hunting community to the hills from September through November. Reserve early for summer dates and August Rally week, when the Black Hills' limited campground inventory fills completely.

from $45/night

Lakeview Haven

28 RV Sites

In the high plains of Platte County, Wyoming, along the shore of Glendo Reservoir on the North Platte River, Lakeview Haven provides a well-maintained, genuinely hospitable base camp for the kind of Wyoming outdoor experience that most coastal travelers have only seen in photographs. Glendo is a small, unpretentious ranching and reservoir town in the eastern foothills of the Laramie Range, and Lakeview Haven reflects that character—a clean, friendly campground with solid infrastructure, designed for people who come to Wyoming to fish, boat, and be outside rather than to collect resort amenities. The reservoir is the draw, and the campground delivers on access to it. Twenty-eight premium RV sites with full hookups and comfortable cabin rentals constitute the accommodation options, and the layout is specifically engineered with multiple entry and exit roads to accommodate rigs of every size from compact campers to the longest Class A motorhomes and fifth-wheel configurations. Well-maintained bathrooms and private shower facilities, a playground, laundry, and free WiFi handle the practical requirements of extended stays, and the pet-friendly policy welcomes the dogs that often accompany Wyoming-bound travelers with outdoor itineraries. The campground's team is consistently noted for the kind of attentive, genuine hospitality that reflects genuine pride in what they're offering rather than scripted welcome-center service. Glendo Reservoir, adjacent to the campground in Glendo State Park, is a 12,500-acre body of water on the North Platte River that provides outstanding fishing for walleye, bass, catfish, crappie, and yellow perch—a diversity of target species that keeps anglers busy regardless of season and preference. The reservoir's consistent wind exposure makes it a sailing and windsurfing destination of regional note, and powerboating, water skiing, and swimming are available from state park facilities within easy reach. The surrounding high-plains landscape—rolling grassland, ponderosa pine breaks, and the distant silhouette of the Laramie Range to the west—gives the setting a wide-open Wyoming character that is deeply distinctive and immediately appealing to travelers from more densely populated regions. Fort Laramie National Historic Site, one of the most significant forts in the history of the American West—the gateway through which the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails all passed—is located 30 miles southeast of Glendo and provides one of Wyoming's most substantive historical experiences. The town of Guernsey, with its spectacular Oregon Trail ruts carved five feet into solid rock by generations of westward-bound wagons, and the Guernsey State Park are an easy day trip that puts the westward migration in visceral, unforgettable physical context. Interstate 25 keeps the broader eastern Wyoming corridor accessible for travelers with itineraries extending toward Casper, Cheyenne, or the Black Hills. Lakeview Haven operates through the Wyoming outdoor recreation season, with summer representing the peak demand period for boating and fishing on Glendo Reservoir. The state park's facilities and the reservoir's reputation among walleye anglers in particular create strong summer occupancy, and reservations are recommended for July and August weekends. Spring and fall offer the fishing-focused visitor a quieter, less crowded reservoir experience with equivalent fish populations and the added attraction of the high-plains landscape in seasonal transition. Book your site, rig up the fishing poles, and let Glendo Reservoir deliver the Wyoming outdoor experience this part of the state has been building for generations.

Walleye Rentals

4 RV Sites, 1 Cabin

Walleye Rentals in Glendo, Wyoming, is a campground and rental operation adjacent to Glendo Reservoir in Platte County — a no-frills, fishing-focused camping property with spacious RV sites at 30 and 50-amp hookups, picnic tables, and Wi-Fi in the North Platte River reservoir country of southeastern Wyoming, positioned to give anglers and Wyoming outdoor recreation visitors the base camp access to Glendo State Park's walleye, largemouth bass, and rainbow trout fishery that the reservoir sustains in one of the most productive warm-water and cold-water mixed fisheries in the Wyoming state park system. Glendo's Platte County position on the Oregon Trail corridor through the North Platte River valley gives the campground the specific historical and geological context of the most heavily traveled emigrant route in American history. Spacious full-hookup RV sites at 30 and 50 amps with picnic tables and Wi-Fi give Walleye Rentals the practical infrastructure for the angling and recreation-focused guest whose Glendo Reservoir itinerary requires the extended-stay base that full hookup service enables. The campground's name reflects its specific market identity — the walleye fishing on Glendo Reservoir, supplemented by the bass, rainbow trout, and the trophy-size fish that the reservoir's depth and the state park's management program sustain, gives the property the specific fishing camp character that the walleye rental and the direct reservoir access specifically deliver. Pets are welcome. Glendo State Park, immediately north of the town of Glendo in Platte County, encompasses the 12,000-acre Glendo Reservoir on the North Platte River — a Bureau of Reclamation impoundment created in 1958 that sustains one of Wyoming's most popular warm-water fisheries with walleye, largemouth bass, and the cold-water trout species that the reservoir's depth thermocline and the dam's cold-water release program specifically support below the dam. The state park's developed marina, boat ramps, and the sandy swimming beaches on the reservoir's coves give the Glendo State Park the full day-use recreational infrastructure of one of Wyoming's most actively managed recreation reservoirs. Fort Laramie National Historic Site, 30 miles east of Glendo in Goshen County, preserves the most significant military post and trading fort on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails — a frontier fort that served as the primary supply and resupply point for the 300,000-plus emigrants who traveled the North Platte River corridor between 1842 and 1869 in the greatest voluntary human migration in American history. The fort's original 1849 Old Bedlam officers' quarters (the oldest surviving building in Wyoming), the restored sutler's store, and the reconstructed officer and enlisted men's quarters give the national historic site the physical character of an operating frontier military post at the scale and complexity that the Oregon Trail's support infrastructure required. Walleye Rentals serves guests through Wyoming's outdoor recreation season from spring through fall, with the walleye fishing season peaking in the spring spawn from April through June and the summer boat recreation from July through August sustaining the Glendo Reservoir's peak visitor demand. The North Platte River below the Glendo Dam provides the cold-water tailwater trout fishing that supplements the reservoir's warm-water fishery — brown and rainbow trout in the cold discharge reach give the river below the dam the specific catch-and-release trout character that fly fishing visitors target in addition to the reservoir's walleye bass. Reserve sites ahead for the spring walleye season and summer reservoir recreation weekends when Glendo State Park's limited accommodation fills from the Cheyenne and Casper regional markets.

from $34/night