Wheatland Reservoir #1 Dispersed Camping

This place definitely surprised us! Easy access, (small SUV) well kept road, spacious sites, beautiful views, and bird watching. We enjoyed watching the herons fish all evening and caught a nice sunset and gorgeous sunrise. Surprisingly no bugs! A small amount of light pollution and distant noise but overall very nice. Biggest pet peeve was the amount of trash around. Guess people don’t know or practice leave no trace. 😔Would definitely stay here again though

This is a nice lake with cottonwood trees around it. Road in had been graded and was nice and smooth. The water level was really high and I am guessing some of the sites were under water as there was trees offshore 30 to 50 feet. You are exposed to wind and the sun so bring a shade structure if you need to. Campfires are not allowed. Vault toilets are located near the boat ramps and were fully stocked and clean. The pin takes you to the one side of the lake. You will pass a few sites and a boat ramp on the way to the location and there is more site further down the road till you get to the loop at the end. Camping is only allowed between the lake and the road. The road in off of the pavement is nice. I spent 5 days here and loved it. Was pretty quiet.

For many mid-to-large RVers, the quality of sites (few and very unlevel) will not justify the very-bumpy, constant side-to-side-rocking down the dirt/gravel road. Only about 1 along-road site on each of 3 or 4 knolls along the way and 1 or 2 sites at end of 2.1-mile road suitable for big RVs. Shore at end of road has nice sand/silt beach good for swimming and launching paddle boards. Parked 6/6/2022 at 41.99516, -105.03139 by pit toilet near end of road. Very spotty OTA reception for 3 PBS channels. Verizon service good enough for internet and watching movies. This reservoir appears more attractive to tenters and small-to-mid-size RV campers, fishermen, water skiers, and paddle boarders. It likely would be good for board sailors. The week of our stay at the end of the road, only 6 other parties were spaced across the area, and the 2 pit toilets were cleaned and paper amply restocked. If the road were smoother, I would have rated this site as 5 stars. But a better road surely would attract much larger number of campers.

Was very easy to find via Google Maps. Roads were good until the last mile. Lots of washboarding, but if you go slow, anyone can make it. Plenty of spots all around the entire reservoir. I stayed on the SW edge, about 50 feet from the water. Great breeze, plenty of shade from Cottonwood trees (I stayed in the sun because I'm solar powered). Saw blue herons (I think...some large, grey/blue stork looking birds--can you tell I'm not a wildlife specialist?)
There were a medium number of people there, but still plenty of places to park and other campers kept their distance.
Had 3 bars on Verizon wifi.

This site is just amazing! I had a nice shady spot with the clean warm water just steps away. There is traffic on the road during the day with locals taking advantage of the boat ramps and spots to hang out but it’s quiet at night. I felt like I was in the Keys as I had a private white sand beach - all that was missing were palm trees, but the cottonwoods gave me shade. Left after 2 nights as the water level seemed to be rising toward me and the temps went into the mid 90s. Free electric sites at a town park nearby were too tempting to resist. There are vault toilets in a few places. Otherwise no services. Please take trash out - I picked up trash around me that others left.

Stayed 5 nights at the end of May. Camping is allowed between the road and the water, with a 5 night limit. Many of the best spots are on the southwest and south sides of the reservoir. We pulled onto a grassy area on the south side near the inlet creek, and easily leveled out. The scenery is gorgeous (we didn't know Wyoming could be this pretty). The whole place is surrounded by farmland, so many cows, horses, and antelope can be seen while walking around the water. Lots of beautiful walking to do all around the water and down the little trails everywhere. There is a pit toilet on the south side in the boat launch parking lot, and another one on the north side in a dirt parking lot. Very close to town for supplies.

TIP: The dirt road around the reservoir is moderately washboarded, but not too badly. If you are coming from the south, GPS will tell you to take Grange Rd to Resevoir Rd, but it is better to keep going north and make a right on Jefferson, then right again on Hightower. You will be on paved road all the way to the water and avoid some of the worse washboards on Reservoir Rd.

The road coming as per google maps is about a mile long on washboard but by going slow it is worth the effort. We are in a 38foot class A towing a Jeep. There are numerous sites available for rv’s up to 45 feet towing lengthily loads. Most sites are fairly level but will require some leveling. Beware of parking to close to trees if windy as large branches can break off. As of this date the area is sparsely used. There are rigs camped on either side of us but no closer than a couple hundred yards away so it is quiet and you can run a generator without disturbing anyone. There is a boat launch for water access. The nearby town of Wheatland has amenities for shopping and laundry and fuel.