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From Dayton, WY, take US Rt. 14 west 40.2 miles to Tie Flume/Dead
Beautiful setting. Lovely host. Water available as well as toilets. Was a great place to stop off at and had wood available. Bring cash. :)
This is a wonderful place, that like Deadsweed, has regular visitors of the moose variety. The fish in the stream are quite small, but still fun to go after. Very pleasant place.
As a first timer to the Big Horns, this was a great camping experience. We arrived to snow/rain at 11:30pm and were able to find our campsite quickly as it is labeled clearly and organized well. Bathrooms were close and well maintained. The site had a couple level spots for a tent. loved having the grill spots and table. There was a nice post over the table with a hook to hang a lantern. We visited late June for a weekend and saw a dozen moose near Burgess Junction and a few on Copper Creek Rd. Also, no mosquitos on our visit. Sibley Lake and Black Mountain Lookout (picture along that hike) were a ton of fun for us. Can't wait to come back.
This is a well kept US Forest Service campsite located in the very scenic Big Horn Mountains adjacent to the South Fork of the Tongue River.
Each of the individual campsites was more than sufficient to easily accommodate a large RV or two large tents and two cars. You don't have total isolation from your neighbors but you are sufficiently separated so as to you not having to hear or see most of your neighbors' activities and vice versa.
That is with the exception of those people who escape to nature for a break from the city but then end up running generators so they can enjoy the creature comforts of home along with all their electronic toys. Fortunately, for my stay, generator usage by my neighbors was limited to a couple times per day for about a half hour each time.
There are two sections to the campground and each has a very well maintained set of men's and women's vault toilets. They were clean, with minimal bugs and we're kept well stocked with toilet paper. There is a fresh water well at the campground entrance. There is also a place to buy bundles of firewood for $6 each. The campground itself has been picked fairly clean of any deadfall that can be used for a campfire. However, there is ample deadfall a couple hundred yards away as you walk towards the river. With a little extra effort you can accumulate all the firewood you need for your stay.
The Tongue River is a beautiful stream and there is an easy to follow trail that allows you to follow it upstream for several miles. It has all of the characteristics of a good, mountain fishing stream. However, for our visit we found it to have an abundance of small (6 inch or less) brown trout and none of their larger daddies or granddaddies. They were fun to catch and release but we were not able to catch anything large enough to satiate our appetite for fresh fried trout.
The stream offers up itself well to both fly fishing and spin casting if you are willing to wander upstream or downstream about 500 yards to find your spots.
It's a nice, secluded rustic campground high up at about 8,800ft. Very few amenities but location and scenery make up for this. Very charming, my one and only complaint is the constant traffic by cars, trucks, ATV, motorcycles kicking up a mountain of dust that settled onto our campsites. A short strip of pavement or oil in front of the sites would be much appreciated.
