Avalanche Campground
2Heads up1 park alert · 1 fire 29 mi away
- Right now
- ClosedThe agency’s own sentence, quoted below
- Sites
- 91In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Avalanche campground is located in one of the most popular sections of Glacier National Park west of the Continental Divide. The campground accommodates tent and RV campers. However, only 50 sites will accommodate vehicle lengths up to 26 feet. All sites require a reservation. Most sites have a 6-month booking window with a good handful having a 4-day booking window. Keep reading
Recreation
Avalanche is in one of the most popular sections of Glacier National Park west of the Continental Divide. Two popular day hikes offer spectacular scenery and glimpses of birds and wildlife that inhabit the area.
Facilities
The sites are relatively spread apart and provide privacy for both RV and tent campers. Potable water is available seasonally in the campground, and restroom facilities have flush toilets and sinks with running water.
What the agency tells you
Food storage regulations are strictly enforced. Grizzly and black bears frequent the area. When not in immediate use, all food, beverages, coolers, cooking utensils, pet food, or other attractants must be kept in a closed, hard-sided vehicle or secured in bear proof storage lockers near campground restrooms.
Vehicle length limits. Vehicle and vehicle combinations longer than 21 feet (6.5 m) or wider than 8 feet (2.4 m) including mirrors are prohibited between the Sun Point parking area and Avalanche Campground.
Maximum Stay. Campground length of stay is limited to 14 days.
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Quiet Hours. Quiet hours are from 10 pm to 6 am. Noise must be kept to a low level that does not disturb other campers. Generator use in campgrounds is permitted only during the following times: 8 am to 10 a.m., noon to 2 p.m., or 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Fire Rings Only. Campsites contain fire rings but do not have fire grates for grilling/ food preparation.
Hammocks. Hammocks must be hung over non vegetated areas using one inch straps or wider. Vegetation may not be trampled to access hammocks.
Maximum Number of Tents. Campsites allow a maximum of 2 tents per site.
No Firewood Collection. Firewood collection is prohibited within Avalanche Campground.
Renting an RV or trailer? Per 36 CFR 5.3, commercial business may not take place inside Glacier National Park. This includes RVs and trailers being delivered within Glacier's boundaries. Renters of these must drive them in themselves.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 91
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 34 ft
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - seasonal
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 159th darkest of 501 in MT
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 17 km away
- Peak color
Nothing to book until it reopens
It remains closed between Avalanche and Logan Pass.
The closure above is the reading. We hold no availability snapshot for this campground, so there’s no thirty-night strip to draw under it.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Every line of the receipt · 8
What you actually pay
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 3
What the agency said · 1
It remains closed between Avalanche and Logan Pass.
National Park Service · posted Oct 14, 2026
Filed as emergency from the agency’s own words “Avalanche”. That reading is ours.
Open within 60 miles · 1
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- St. Mary CampgroundGlacier National Park · 18 mi · 157 sites
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
91 sites
All 91 sites
| A | A01 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | |
| A | A02 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | |
| A | A03 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | |
| A | A04 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | |
| A | A05 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | |
| A | A06 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | |
| A | A07 | standard nonelectric | 14 ft | |
| A | A08 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | |
| A | A09 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | |
| A | A10 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | |
| A | A11 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | |
| A | A12 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | |
| A | A13 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | |
| A | A14 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | |
| A | A15 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | |
| A | A16 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | |
| A | A17 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | |
| A | A18 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | |
| A | A19 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | |
| A | A20 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | |
| A | A21 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | |
| A | A22 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | |
| A | A23 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | |
| A | A24 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | |
| A | A25 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | |
| A | A26 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | |
| A | A27 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | |
| A | A28 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | |
| A | A29 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | |
| A | A30 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | |
| A | A31 | standard nonelectric | 19 ft | |
| A | A32 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | |
| A | A33 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | yes |
| A | A34 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | |
| A | A35 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | |
| A | A36 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | |
| A | A37 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | |
| A | A38 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | |
| A | A39 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | |
| A | A40 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | |
| A | A41 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | |
| A | A42 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | |
| A | A43 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | |
| A | A44 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | |
| A | A45 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | |
| A | A46 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | |
| A | A47 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | |
| A | A48 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | |
| A | A49 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | |
| A | A50 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | |
| A | A51 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | |
| A | A52 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | |
| A | Hiker/Bicyclist Shared A0 | type not stated | ||
| A | Hiker/Bicyclist Shared A0b | type not stated | ||
| A | Hiker/Bicyclist Shared A0c | type not stated | ||
| A | Hiker/Bicyclist Shared A0d | type not stated | ||
| B | B53 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | |
| B | B54 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | |
| B | B55 | standard nonelectric | 19 ft | |
| B | B56 | standard nonelectric | 19 ft | |
| B | B57 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | |
| B | B58 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | |
| B | B59 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | |
| B | B60 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | |
| B | B61 | type not stated | 21 ft | |
| B | B62 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | |
| B | B63 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | |
| B | B64 | standard nonelectric | 19 ft | |
| B | B65 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | |
| B | B66 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | |
| B | B67 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | |
| B | B68 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | |
| B | B69 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | |
| B | B70 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | yes |
| B | B71 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | |
| B | B72 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | |
| B | B73 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | |
| B | B74 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | |
| B | B75 | standard nonelectric | 19 ft | |
| B | B76 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | |
| B | B77 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | |
| B | B78 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | |
| B | B79 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | |
| B | B80 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | |
| B | B81 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | |
| B | B82 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | |
| B | B83 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | |
| B | B84 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | |
| B | B85 | standard nonelectric | 19 ft | |
| B | B86 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | |
| B | B87 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft |
25 of 91 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Rising Sun CampgroundGlacier National Park · 1.0 mi
Sprague Creek CampgroundGlacier National Park · 5.7 mi
Many Glacier CampgroundGlacier National Park · 11 mi
Fish Creek CampgroundGlacier National Park · 12 mi
Apgar CampgroundGlacier National Park · 13 mi
Apgar Group SitesGlacier National Park · 13 miAvalanche Campground has multiple entry points on the east and west side of the park.
West Side Entrance
- West Entrance – From Columbia Falls, take Highway 2 east to the town of West Glacier (approximately 33 miles (53 km) from Kalispell).
- West Entrance – From Browning, take Highway 2 west to the town of West Glacier.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for West Glacier, MT
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 52°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 19°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Avalanche Campground is in Montana’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Ryan Zinke (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →