Beaver Creek Campground
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $26From, per site
- Sites
- 6361 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Beaver Creek Campground is located near the Madison River and Earthquake Lake, less than 30 minutes from West Yellowstone and Yellowstone National Park. Visitors enjoy the area for its fishing, boating and hiking opportunities, as well as its close proximity to Yellowstone. Keep reading
Recreation
Earthquake Lake offers fishing and canoeing and can be accessed via trails from within the campground, or less than a mile away on the highway. A visitor center is nearby, with interpretive displays, as well as information on the 1959 earthquake and subsequent landslide that formed the lake. Hebgen Lake is considered Montana's premier still-water fishing lake. Anglers will find a healthy population of brown, cutthroat and rainbow trout. Boating and swimming are popular activities on the lake. The Cabin Creek Trail begins at nearby Cabin Creek Campground. This 6-mile trail is open to hikers and horseback riders.
Facilities
The campground offers several single-family sites, each equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring. Vault toilets, drinking water, food storage lockers and trash collection are provided.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on a hillside above the Madison River and Earthquake Lake. Hebgen Lake is also nearby. A forest of pine, Douglas fir and aspen forest the campground. Plentiful grasses and summer wildflowers cover the forest floor. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.
Nearby Attractions
West Yellowstone offers dining, shopping and lodging options. The Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center is a popular attraction, with live grizzlies, gray wolves and birds of prey, and a variety of educational exhibits and programs. Yellowstone National Park offers unparalleled wildlife viewing opportunities, breathtaking scenery and unique geological features.
What the agency tells you
Bears frequent the area; all food must be stored in approved containers and secured when campsite is unoccupied.
Click here for more information on the Gallatin National Forest
Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Reserved campsites will be held until check-out time on the day following your scheduled arrival.
Firewood is available for sale at host site for $10.00/bundle.
No RV Dump Station is located in any of the USFS campgrounds managed by ExplorUS in the Custer-Gallatin National Forest.
There are NO Shower facilities available at this campground.
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 63
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 56 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…with a picnic table and campfire ring. Vault toilets, drinking water, food storage lockers and trash…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…table and campfire ring. Vault toilets, drinking water, food storage lockers and trash collection are…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Backpacking
- Biking
- Birding
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Mountain biking
- Mushroom Picking
- Stargazing
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 204th darkest of 501 in MT
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 61 of the 63 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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.
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 make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
“Additional vehicles will be assessed a $8.00/night extra vehicle fee upon arrival at your site.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $26 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.
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
The sites
64 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 61 mapped sitesAll 64 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 61 of the 64 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Loop A | A001 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 968 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A002 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 921 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A003 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 983 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A004 | standard nonelectric | 192 ft | 924 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A005 | standard nonelectric | 108 ft | 967 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A006 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 1,079 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A007 | standard nonelectric | 91 ft | 1,094 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A008 | standard nonelectric | 91 ft | 1,093 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A009 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 999 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A010 | standard nonelectric | 242 ft | 812 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A011 | type not stated | |||||
| Loop A | A012 | standard nonelectric | 81 ft | 983 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A013 | standard nonelectric | 81 ft | 941 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A015 | standard nonelectric | 153 ft | 761 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A016 | standard nonelectric | 153 ft | 615 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A017 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 707 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A018 | standard nonelectric | 105 ft | 548 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A019 | standard nonelectric | 82 ft | 609 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A020 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 711 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A021 | standard nonelectric | 82 ft | 643 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A022 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 735 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A023 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 653 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A024 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 793 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A025 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 712 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A026 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 851 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop A | A027 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 848 ftBeaver Creek | $26 | ||
| Loop B | B001 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 1,355 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | ||
| Loop B | B002 - Host | host pad | 1,434 ftEarthquake Lake | ||||
| Loop B | B003 | standard nonelectric | 95 ft | 1,433 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | ||
| Loop B | B004 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 1,524 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | ||
| Loop B | B005 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 1,546 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | ||
| Loop B | B006 | standard nonelectric | 82 ft | 1,627 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | ||
| Loop B | B007 | standard nonelectric | 144 ft | 1,605 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | ||
| Loop B | B008 | standard nonelectric | 104 ft | 1,518 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | ||
| Loop B | B009 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 1,395 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | ||
| Loop B | B010 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 1,418 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | ||
| Loop B | B011 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 1,325 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | ||
| Loop B | B012 | standard nonelectric | 110 ft | 1,326 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | ||
| Loop B | B013 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 1,061 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | ||
| Loop B | B014 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 1,151 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | ||
| Loop B | B015 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 1,204 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | ||
| Loop C | C001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 91 ft | 599 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | |
| Loop C | C002 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 80 ft | 605 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | |
| Loop C | C003 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 80 ft | 685 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | |
| Loop C | C004 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 100 ft | 675 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | |
| Loop C | C005 | type not stated | 50 ft | 736 ftEarthquake Lake | |||
| Loop C | C006 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 109 ft | 812 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | |
| Loop C | C007 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 109 ft | 742 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | |
| Loop C | C008 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 113 ft | 877 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | |
| Loop C | C009 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 67 ft | 990 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | |
| Loop C | C010 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 67 ft | 1,031 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | |
| Loop C | C011 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 101 ft | 1,097 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | |
| Loop C | C012 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 101 ft | 1,103 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | |
| Loop C | C013 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | yes | 85 ft | 981 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 |
| Loop C | C014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 61 ft | 914 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | |
| Loop C | C015 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 70 ft | 896 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | |
| Loop C | C016 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 61 ft | 855 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | |
| Loop C | C017 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 74 ft | 789 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | |
| Loop C | C018 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 101 ft | 684 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | |
| Loop C | C019 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 24 ft | 629 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | |
| Loop C | C020 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 24 ft | 633 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | |
| Loop C | C021 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 71 ft | 582 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | |
| Loop C | C022 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 89 ft | 624 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 | |
| Loop C | C023 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 89 ft | 649 ftEarthquake Lake | $26 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
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 64 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Cabin Creek CampgroundGallatin National Forest · 1.6 mi
Beaver Creek Cabin (MT)Gallatin National Forest · 3.9 mi
Spring Creek CampgroundGallatin National Forest · 7.2 mi
Cabin Creek CabinCabin Creek Wildlife And Recreation Management Area · 8.7 mi
Cherry Creek CampgroundGallatin National Forest · 9.3 mi
Madison River (MT)Beaverhead National Forest · 10 miFrom West Yellowstone, drive 8 miles north on Highway 191, then 16 miles west on Highway 287.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Hebgen Lake Estates, MT
Typical weather
Typical May night 32°F, day 58°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 32°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 moreOutside the published season
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
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Beaver Creek 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 →