RV travel guide
Park County
County seat Cody, 6,968 sq mi across Wyoming. Everything an RV traveler should read before rolling in — where you can boondock, the roads worth the detour, and the local rule that actually matters.
The county in brief
A traveler's read on Park County
Cody was founded by Buffalo Bill Cody in 1896 specifically to capitalize on Yellowstone's east-entrance tourism — and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West's five museums hold the largest single collection of Plains Indian, firearms, and Western-frontier ethnographic material in North America.
Park County wraps Yellowstone's East Entrance approach through Shoshone National Forest (the first congressionally-designated national forest, 1891), the Sunlight Basin via the Chief Joseph Scenic Byway, and the Beartooth Highway's southern terminus at Cooke City. Shoshone NF dispersed camping along the North Fork Shoshone River (the 50-mile US-20 corridor between Cody and Yellowstone) holds the densest concentration of RV-friendly free pullouts in the Yellowstone gateway region.
RV travel intelligence
Read the land before you roll in
The three things that shape an RV trip here — where you can boondock, the roads worth the detour, and the local rule that trips travelers up.
Dispersed camping
high
High — most public land permits dispersed
Nearby National Park Service units
Yellowstone (East Entrance via US-20)
Scenic drives & state byways
Buffalo Bill Cody Scenic Byway US-14/16/20 · Chief Joseph Scenic Byway WY-296
Ordinance note for RV travelers
Shoshone NF permits 14-day dispersed across most forest roads; Cody town prohibits overnight RV parking on Sheridan Avenue arterial.
Sourced & cited
Every fact traces to an official source
Population and land area from the US Census; ordinances and park adjacency from county.gov, the National Park Service, and the US Forest Service.
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- State rental tax
- 7% · not collected by PickRV
- Min driver age
- 16+ std · 21+ Class A
- Gravel roads
- Allowed — no restriction
- Generator quiet
- 22:00-08:00
Your next step
Seeing Park County from a rig
Most public land here allows dispersed camping for up to 14 days, which makes this county far friendlier to a self-contained rig than to a hotel plan.
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