Cottonwood Campground, Alcova Reservoir, Alcova WY
Cottonwood Creek Park from Dinosaur Trail, Alcova Reservoir, Alcova WY, May 2, 2011
Cottonwood Campground is a Natrona County park with some shelters, a boat launch ramp, and some campsites with no services. There is a dramatic view of the reservoir from most sites.
Cottonwood Campground, Alcova Reservoir, Alcova WY
- Verizon cell phone and EVDO service - good signal
- Natrona County Parks Website
- Locate Cottonwood Creek Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Nights I've camped here
Sell Them Down the River
Brown had in his camp a fine-looking Negro, who said he had run away from his master in Platte County, Missouri, because the man was going to sell him and his wife to a dealer who would take them south to the Louisiana sugar plantations. The average Missouri Negro looked upon being sold south as one or two degrees worse than being sent straight to hell. This viewpoint was fostered by the masters, who always threatened, when things went wrong, to sell them down the river. ...