About Silver Lake Campground
At just under 10,500 feet Silver Lake Campground is the highest elevation campground on the Brush Creek/Hayden Ranger District. It opens in late June or early July depending on snow depth. The campground is beside the Snowy Range Scenic Byway on Silver Lake. This facility provides easy access to exploring the trails, lakes, streams, and glacial landscapes of the area. Facilities include 17 campsites with 3 RV pull-throughs (trailers under 32'). Sites offer picnic tables, fire grates. Water and trash receptacles are available during the summer season. The campground offers two trailheads to explore! Popular attractions near this campground include Silver Lake, Lake Marie Falls, Mirror Lake, Medicine Bow Peak Trail, French Creek CanyonTrail and Miners Cabin Trail. This site was approved for a fee change - [Click here for more…
- Fees: $20 per site.
- Season: July – September
- Managed by: USFS - Medicine Bow-Routt NFs and Thunder Basin NG
- Where: 7 mi east of Ryan Park, WY · 41.3113, -106.36003
Things to do:
Official page for this camp (fees, closures, booking)
Weather by month
Typical daily highs and lows (°F), 1991–2020 NOAA normals. Best months: Jul–Aug (comfortable days, mild nights, little rain). Nights below freezing: Oct–May.
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Trails near camp
| Trail | Open to | From camp | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Lake C G | ATV road | at camp | 0.5 mi |
| Silver Lake Trail | Hiking | 0.1 mi | 1.5 mi |
| Meadow Falls Trail | Hiking | 0.1 mi | 2.4 mi |
| High Burn | ATV road | 0.8 mi | 1.5 mi |
| Quealy Reservoir Spur | ATV / OHV, Dirt bike | 1.2 mi | 11.7 mi |
| French Creek Canyon | Hiking | 1.9 mi | 5.0 mi |
Straight-line distance from camp, from Forest Service, BLM, state and OpenStreetMap trail data.
Good to know
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Class 1 of 9, from NASA/NOAA night-light data.Camps nearby
- Snow Survey Cabin 1.4 mi
- Sugarloaf Campground 4.4 mi
- Ryan Park 6.7 mi
- Little Brooklyn Guard Station 6.8 mi
- Nash Fork Campground 7 mi
- Brooklyn Lake Campground 7.1 mi