BLM closed Pete's Draw Campground on August 31 for county road work, with no reopening date

Pete’s Draw Campground, on the North Platte below Alcova, closed today. The BLM Casper Field Office announced it on August 28: the campground closes effective August 31, 2026 while Natrona County repairs County Road 412, the Gray Reef Road, and it “will remain closed until work is completed by Natrona County. There is no expected date of completion at this time.”

That last sentence is the useful part. A fire closure usually carries an end date you can plan against, even a soft one. A closure that waits on a county road project does not, because the BLM is not the one holding the schedule. If you want a real answer on timing, the county is who knows, and the field office is at 307-261-7600.

What you are losing

Not much acreage, but a specific kind of site. The BLM’s Pete’s Draw page, read August 31, 2026, lists seven overnight campsites with picnic tables, fire rings, shelters and tent pads, plus RV parking, a vault toilet and a hardened pedestrian trail. Fee is $10 a night, day use is free, sites are first come first served, and the stay limit is 14 days. There is no water at the campground. Overnight parking in the day use area is not allowed.

Where that leaves you

The announcement says “All other campgrounds managed by the BLM within the Casper Field Office remain open.” Two are worth knowing, and neither is a straight swap.

Golden Currant is the closest, 7.4 miles east of Alcova on Highway 220 then 2.7 miles in on County Road 316. Four sites, $10 a night, vault toilet, no water, first come first served. Its page says overnight use “is restricted to tent camping only.” If you were going to Pete’s Draw in an RV, this does not replace it.

Rim Campground on Muddy Mountain does take rigs. Eight sites with tent pads and fire rings and, in the BLM’s words, “a few pull-through sites for large trailers/RVs.” Fees are $7 per site per night and $3 per extra vehicle, halved for Access Pass and Senior Pass holders. No potable water at Rim; the page says water is available at nearby Lodgepole Campground. It is also up on the mountain south of Casper rather than down on the river, so it is a different trip.

The thing the BLM got right here

The closure notice is not only in the press feed. It is posted at the top of the campground’s own visit page, dated August 28, 2026. That is worth noticing because it is not automatic: when the BLM closed Fan Creek Campground in Oregon over a bear, the recreation area page carried no notice at all. Checking a site’s own BLM page is a good habit, and this week in Wyoming it works.

Posted signs and whatever the field office tells you on the phone beat this page and every other website. For the rest of the state, start at our Wyoming free camping page.