U.S. Forest Service · Gallatin National Forest · MT

Bakers Hole (MT)

ReservableOut of season, no booking; December 5 opens June 5.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$26–$61Across the site types the agency prices
Sites
73All of them booked ahead
45 ftLongest rig
6,670 ftElevation
1.2 miWater · Madison River
0 miNE of West Yellowstone, MT
34%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices

In the agency’s own words

Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.

What the agency tells you

Rule

Firewood is available for sale at the host site for $10.00/bundle.

Rule

No RV Dump Station is located in any of the USFS campgrounds managed by ExplorUS in the Custer-Gallatin National Forest.

Rule

There are NO Shower facilities available at this campground.

Everything else this campground posts · 1
Rule

Camping fee covers 2 vehicles or RV/Trailer with tow vehicle. An extra vehicle fee of $9.00 is charged for each additional vehicle per night of stay. If you have an extra vehicle, it must fit on the campsite parking spur.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Tents and rigs

Sites
73
Hookups
34 electric
Longest rig
45 ft
Paved pads
3 of 73
Accessible sites
2
Pets
Allowed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade
70 of 73 sites
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On December 5, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through June 5, 2027.recreation.govAdd to calendar (.ics)
Max stay16 nightsthe facility record
A night$26–$61plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
A weekend$60–$130DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Forest ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
Watch for a cancellation

Full? Watch it.

One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.

We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Tell me when the season opens

Watch for the season to open

One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.

We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.

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.

We’ll write once, when the season that starts Sat, Jun 5 2027 is open for booking.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 16

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night, per site$26–$61
Standard Nonelectric$26
Standard Electric$35
Standard Non Electric-Double Site$52
RV Electric Double$61
Rates for the season the campground is in now, Sep 27, 2026 to Oct 11, 2026.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicle$9

“An extra vehicle fee of $9.00 is charged for each additional vehicle per night of stay.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice

What a stay costs
One nightDerived$34–$69
A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$60–$130

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $26–$61 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.

If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

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 · 6

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

73 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 72 mapped sites
100 ftbetween you and the next site, typically
95%of tent sites sit clear of electric or RV sites
Least room59 67 ft67 67 ft37 70 ft

All 73 sites

72 of 73 sites located
Standard38RV / electric34
SleepsUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 73 of the 73 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

01standard nonelectric17 ftyes97 ft222 ft$26–$52
02standard nonelectric97 ft199 ft$26–$52
03standard nonelectric105 ft303 ft$26–$52
04standard nonelectric97 ft205 ft$26–$52
05standard nonelectric81 ft302 ft$26–$52
06standard nonelectric108 ft234 ft$26–$52
07standard nonelectric17 ft84 ft340 ft$26–$52
08standard nonelectric17 ft122 ft310 ft$26–$52
09standard nonelectric17 ft113 ft427 ft$26–$52
10standard nonelectric17 ft113 ft457 ft$26–$52
11standard nonelectric25 ft98 ft555 ft$26–$52
12standard nonelectric98 ft575 ft$26–$52
13standard nonelectric20 ft152 ft724 ft$26–$52
14standard nonelectric20 ft106 ft759 ft$26–$52
15standard nonelectric20 ft106 ft856 ft$26–$52
16rv electric20 ft50 amp103 ft867 ft$35–$61
17rv electric22 ft50 amp103 ft813 ft$35–$61
18rv electric20 ft50 amp118 ft703 ft$35–$61
19rv electric30 ft50 amp118 ft683 ft$35–$61
20rv electric40 ft50 amp120 ft563 ft$35–$61
21rv electric40 ft50 amp120 ft499 ft$35–$61
22rv electric40 ft50 amp81 ft380 ft$35–$61
23rv electric20 ft125 ft409 ft$35–$61
24standard nonelectric50 amp100 ft430 ft$26–$52
25rv electric40 ft50 amp93 ft520 ft$35–$61
26rv electric40 ft50 amp96 ft403 ft$35–$61
27rv electric40 ft50 amp93 ft498 ft$35–$61
28rv electric40 ft50 amp96 ft406 ft$35–$61
29rv electric40 ft50 amp113 ft520 ft$35–$61
30rv electric40 ft50 amp117 ft461 ft$35–$61
31rv electric40 ft50 amp105 ft581 ft$35–$61
32rv electric40 ft50 amp94 ft530 ft$35–$61
33rv electric40 ft50 amp94 ft442 ft$35–$61
34rv electric20 ft50 amp92 ft477 ft$35–$61
35rv electric40 ft50 amp92 ft386 ft$35–$61
36rv electric40 ft50 amp92 ft427 ft$35–$61
37rv electric40 ft50 amp70 ft324 ft$35–$61
38rv electric40 ft50 amp92 ft414 ft$35–$61
39rv electric40 ft50 amp94 ft325 ft$35–$61
40rv electric40 ft50 amp94 ft416 ft$35–$61
41rv electric40 ft50 amp103 ft386 ft$35–$61
42rv electric40 ft50 amp94 ft290 ft$35–$61
43rv electric40 ft50 amp87 ft355 ft$35–$61
44rv electric40 ft50 amp94 ft249 ft$35–$61
45rv electric40 ft50 amp87 ft331 ft$35–$61
46rv electric40 ft50 amp110 ft206 ft$35–$61
47rv electric40 ft50 amp98 ft315 ft$35–$61
48rv electric40 ft50 amp103 ft218 ft$35–$61
49rv electric20 ft50 ampyes97 ft317 ft$35–$61
50rv electric35 ft97 ft339 ft$35–$61
51standard nonelectric35 ft208 ft477 ft$26–$52
52standard nonelectric30 ft102 ft213 ft$26–$52
53standard nonelectric20 ft70 ft255 ft$26–$52
54standard nonelectric40 ft89 ft170 ft$26–$52
55standard nonelectric30 ft89 ft150 ft$26–$52
56standard nonelectric40 ft106 ft241 ft$26–$52
57standard nonelectric20 ft106 ft147 ft$26–$52
58standard nonelectric20 ft116 ft158 ft$26–$52
59standard nonelectric20 ft67 ft263 ft$26–$52
60standard nonelectric20 ft132 ft172 ft$26–$52
61standard nonelectric20 ft120 ft170 ft$26–$52
62standard nonelectric20 ft119 ft94 ft$26–$52
63standard nonelectric40 ft119 ft157 ft$26–$52
64standard nonelectric40 ft126 ft270 ft$26–$52
65standard nonelectric45 ft103 ft168 ft$26–$52
66standard nonelectric20 ft97 ft255 ft$26–$52
67standard nonelectric18 ft67 ft300 ft$26–$52
68standard nonelectric18 ft97 ft342 ft$26–$52
69standard nonelectric18 ft102 ft319 ft$26–$52
70standard nonelectric18 ft101 ft291 ft$26–$52
71standard nonelectric18 ft103 ft168 ft$26–$52
72standard nonelectric18 ft101 ft295 ft$26–$52
73standard nonelectric$26–$52

OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.

25 of 73 listed

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the phone number

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

This Afternoon56°Mostly Sunny
Tonight23°Mostly Clear
Sunday57°Mostly Sunny
Sunday Night21°Mostly Clear

NWS forecast for West Yellowstone, MT

Typical weather

Typical October night 28°F, day 51°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 4°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°-10°

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.

Measured at: HEBGEN DAM, MT (USC00244038), 18 miles away and 181 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

Roadless
Two Top6,990 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Dry Canyon3,242 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 16, 2026

Who answers for this land

Ryan Zinke, official portrait

Bakers Hole (MT) 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.