Cheyenne Frontier Days takes over the town for ten days every July. Parade wagons roll down the downtown streets, chuckwagon breakfast smoke hangs over the crowd in the morning, and the dust off the arena settles on everyone in the grandstand.
Ten days of rodeo is a lot to ask of a family of six, and a motorhome parked on the edge of town is how a group paces it. The rig is lunch between events, a nap for the youngest, a shower that washes off the arena, and beds for everyone without a second hotel room. Rodeo week also lands in the thick of summer travel along I-25 and I-80, and both crowds want the same rentals and the same pads. Lock the site first, then book the motorhome.
Frontier Days RV camping off I-25 and I-80
For close-in nights, Event RV Camping runs a dry lot of pull-through pads off I-25 at College Drive, with restrooms on site. Potable water refills and sewage removal cost extra, so a family staying the whole rodeo keeps showers short and plans a tank service partway through.
Off I-80, Cheyenne RV Resort on Hutchins Drive has full-hookup pull-through sites, a dump station and a pool, and the kids will find the pool before the rig is level. A good split for a long rodeo week is a few dry nights close in, then a move to hookups to empty the tanks and run the air conditioning through the warm afternoons. If both are full by the time you book, the rest of Cheyenne's parks take the overflow, and the state park up in the mountains is the one people name next.
Curt Gowdy State Park in the Laramie Range
Up in the Laramie Range west of Cheyenne, Curt Gowdy State Park spreads its campgrounds along reservoir coves, with granite outcrops stacked above the water and sage and ponderosa running down to the shore. It's the week-long base once the rodeo crowd clears out, trails through the granite in the morning and a slow afternoon along the coves. It's also where Cheyenne RV travelers point each other when the town's parks fill up.
Most sites can be reserved only from mid-May through the end of September, which are the weeks everyone wants, so book the site before the rig. A handful at Federal Bay and Hecla Point stay first-come for anyone arriving without a reservation.
The park has no trailer dump station, so a week here starts and ends at one somewhere else. The nearest are at the Southeast Wyoming Welcome Center in Cheyenne and the Wyoming Territorial Prison in Laramie, which makes it easy to arrive empty from one side and leave by the other.
Vedauwoo's weathered granite towers are the Laramie Range scramble most people hear about next, and for a two-person trip built around them, a smaller rig from the Wyoming listings is the easier fit. Devils Tower is a long haul north, a fluted column of rock standing alone over the northeast Wyoming prairie, and the Gillette RV page covers where a rig sleeps for it.
