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Battle Park Trailhead is popular with horse users. A camping area with facilities is located across the road. This trailhead provides access to Battle Park Trail #173 and nearby access to Cloud Peak Wilderness via Long Park Trail #164 and Middle Paintrock Trail - #066. This trailhead also provides access to Lily Lake Cut-off Trail - #120 (Non-wilderness trail) which begins at Long Park Trail #164 and heads southeast to Lily Lake where it connects to Middle Paintrock Trail #066, outside of the Cloud Peak Wilderness boundary.
From Ten Sleep, WY, take Hwy 16 east for about 17.5 miles to Forest System Road (FSR) 27. Turn left at sign onto FSR 27, cross the bridge and go another 2 miles, then turn left onto FSR 24. Trailhead is at the end of FSR 24. Camping area is across from the trailhead parking area.
Awesome place to camp with horses, but the road in is VERY rough
Restrooms were clean. Plenty of space to park, trails were well marked.
Perfect place for my husband and I to vacation. He could go fly fishing while I rode my horse. There were 4-wheeler trails and horse trails, which accommodates both of our interest.
Lovely horse camp. The camp host does not turn anyone away. Two vault toilets in the horse camp and flowing water in several horse troughs. People water is quite far away at the trailhead. Camping by donation with a donation box as you enter the horse camp. I recommend you buy the trail/National Forest map from the Host. The down side (if you’ve never been there) is that the trails are very poorly marked, or not marked at all. There are some very steep, rocky and technical areas. Especially one called “Pucker” pass or ridge. It follows the Paint Rock River valley. At one point you are on a trail about two feet wide, on a sheer slope, with a 300 foot steep drop off to the raging River below. It is very easy to get lost. Ride in groups and be sure to sign the available cards that state when you leave camp (necessary when riding in the Cloud Peak Wilderness).
Gorgeous place to ride. Primitive camp with spring water for horses only. Outhouses for people. Nice pens, stantions or high lines for the horses. Only bad thing is the 15 mile road back to camp, took us 2 hrs to get back there, the road is horrible.
