Chisholm Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $26From, per site
- Sites
- 10All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Chisholm Campground is located next to scenic Hyalite Reservoir in the Bozeman Ranger District of the Gallatin National Forest, 18 miles south of Bozeman, Montana. The surrounding area offers many outdoor recreational opportunities, including boating, canoeing, fishing, hiking and climbing. Keep reading
Recreation
Hyalite Reservoir offers many recreational activities, including boating, canoeing and fishing opportunities. Anglers fish for Yellowstone cutthroat, Arctic grayling and brook trout. Hyalite Creek and the East Fork offer fishing as well. Many hiking trails are found in Hyalite Canyon, including the popular Hyalite Peak Trail. This 7.5-mile one-way trail gains 3,450 feet in elevation as it climbs past numerous waterfalls, to beautiful Hyalite Lake and Peak.
Facilities
The campground has handicapped accessible toilets. It also has picnic tables, trash service, drinking water, and fire rings.
Natural Features
The campground is situated in a forest of pine and fir trees, next to Hyalite Reservoir, at an elevation of 6,700 feet. The East Fork Hyalite Creek runs alongside the north side of the campground. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.
What the agency tells you
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.
Bears frequent this area, all food must be stored in approved containers and secured when campsite is unoccupied.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Firewood - $10.00 per bundle
Check in 2:00 PM - Check out 12:00 PM/Noon Quiet hours 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM
No RV Dump Station is located in any of the USFS campgrounds managed by ExplorUS in the Custer-Gallatin National Forest.
There are NO Showers located in 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
- 10
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…also has picnic tables, trash service, drinking water, and fire rings. Natural Features The campground is…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Reservoir, Lake, Creek
- Berry Picking
- Biking
- Birding
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Mountain biking
- Mushroom Picking
- Off Road Vehicle Trails
- Stargazing
- Swimming
- Water access
- Wildlife viewing
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.
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 · 13
What you actually pay
“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
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
10 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 10 mapped sitesAll 10 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 10 of the 10 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| CHIS | 001 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 83 ft | $26 |
| CHIS | 002 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 123 ft | $26 |
| CHIS | 003 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 60 ft | $26 |
| CHIS | 004 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 109 ft | $26 |
| CHIS | 005 | standard nonelectric | 89 ft | 181 ft | $26 |
| CHIS | 006 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 309 ft | $26 |
| CHIS | 007 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 257 ft | $26 |
| CHIS | 008 | standard nonelectric | 147 ft | 372 ft | $26 |
| CHIS | 009 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 283 ft | $26 |
| CHIS | 010 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 235 ft | $26 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Maxey CabinGallatin National Forest · 0.3 mi
Window Rock CabinGallatin National Forest · 0.9 mi
Hood Creek CampgroundGallatin National Forest · 0.9 mi
Fox Creek Cabin (MT)Gallatin National Forest · 4.3 mi
Mystic Lake CabinMystic Lake Reservoir Water Reserve Withdrawal · 4.9 mi
Langohr CampgroundGallatin National Forest · 5.0 miFrom Main Street in Bozeman, take 19th Avenue south for 7 miles to the paved Hyalite Canyon Road. Turn left and continue south for 11 miles to the campground. The last mile of road is gravel.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for South Glastonbury, MT
Typical weather
Typical October night 25°F, day 53°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 9°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
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
Chisholm 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 →