Clark Memorial Campground
1Heads up1 fire 34 mi away
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- A night
- FreeNo camping fee
- Season
- May 21Opens May 21. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This is an open, sunny site in the canyon bottom along the river. There is a forest nearby and fishing opportunities in the Thompson River.
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and it costs nothing at all. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s own record says there’s no camping fee, and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Big Hole Lookout (MT)Lolo National Forest · 5.2 miGold Rush CampgroundLolo National Forest · 9.9 mi
Cougar Peak LookoutLolo National Forest · 13 miWest Fork Fishtrap Creek CampgroundLolo National Forest · 13 miFishtrap Lake CampgroundLolo National Forest · 16 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Thompson Falls, MT
Typical weather
Typical May night 41°F, day 68°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 41°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Clark Memorial 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 →