Summit Information Center

We stopped here coming from KS heading to Yellowstone. We needed a place to pull over and sleep for the night. We pulled off around 10:30pm and took off again in the morning around 7:30am. No camping signs but for a quick sleep it’s obvious that lots of people do it. I think the main thing is they don’t want folks pitching a tent and starting a fire. Kid loved seeing Lincoln! We were with a group of 3 long campers and we easily able to pull in together. In the morning there were 3 other campers that came in after and had parked next to us.

Like most rest areas in Wyoming, while they are posted “No Camping” the answer from the hosts is that staying overnight is fine, just don’t pitch a tent and camp.

The Summit Information center has 4 parking areas. From the west there is a large tractor trailer parking area then three tiers of parking. Rigs can be parked on all three levels. Lower level is parallel parking, middle has some shorter diagonal pull thrus and the top section has parallel parking.

The top section is where I am parked in the photos. It is the quietest section, literally did not have anyone drive by in the 5 hours I was parked. I dropped the trailer to explore the Pole Mountain area for future sites. Came back and hooked up again.

There is some road noise from I-80 but not that bad.

The Information center has a nice informative museum with lots of content about the Lincoln Highway, why there is a huge sculpture of Lincoln and a commemorative stone about the first telephone line and another about this being the highest point on the Lincoln Highway.