Sixmile Gap (FR 492) in WY -- Camping Rules & Access

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Sixmile Gap (FR 492) in WY

Road corridorMedicine Bow-Routt NF, Brush Creek-Hayden Ranger District

34 mi from Saratoga

Maps 7,817 ft

Camping permission not confirmed

Miles 0–1.6 cross land the Forest Service doesn't manage; camping there needs the landowner's permission.

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests ↗

Stay limit: 16 days · within 30 days · then move 3 mi
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Road Access

Moderate
  • All 2.2 miles of this road are maintained for passenger cars, gravel the whole way.
  • Near Elkhorn Point.
  • Terrain estimates suggest level ground alongside most of this road; parking areas are not verified.
  • Cattle guards at the start of the road and 1.6 and 1.9 miles along it.

Setting

Limited privacy
  • Limited separation from through roads or other sites here, with the nearest through road 0.1 miles off.
  • Sixmile Creek runs 0.7 mi off.
  • Elkhorn Point stands 785 ft above the map pin, 1.6 miles northeast.

Rules

  • Camping rules
  • Current fire orders

Climate averages

October normals 25–55°F, 1.7″ precipitation. Monthly averages, PRISM 1991–2020.