U.S. Forest Service · Beaverhead National Forest · MT
Clover Meadows Dispersed Camping and Picnic Area
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
8,480 ftElevation
1,253 ftWater · an unnamed stream
23.1 miSW of Big Sky, MT
0%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 114th darkest of 501 in MT
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Dispersed camping and picnic area that is flat and open with well-maintained trails to enjoy a hike on. There is no water or garbage services at this site, but if rustic and simple tent camping is what you're after, this is a beautiful option with a day-use picnic area and vault toilet.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…option with a day-use picnic area and vault toilet.”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…trails to enjoy a hike on. There is no water or garbage services at this site, but if rustic and…”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Phone before you drive
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.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
There is no fee ($0) for this campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
Vigilante CabinBeaverhead National Forest · 6.4 mi
Wall Creek CabinBeaverhead National Forest · 6.5 miCottonwood CampgroundBeaverhead National Forest · 7.8 mi
Black Butte CabinBeaverhead National Forest · 8.3 miRuby Creek CampgroundDillon Field Office · 8.5 miPalisades CampgroundDillon Field Office · 9.1 mi
Vigilante CabinBeaverhead National Forest · 6.4 miWall Creek CabinBeaverhead National Forest · 6.5 miCottonwood CampgroundBeaverhead National Forest · 7.8 miBlack Butte CabinBeaverhead National Forest · 8.3 miRuby Creek CampgroundDillon Field Office · 8.5 miPalisades CampgroundDillon Field Office · 9.1 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Tonight35°Partly Cloudy
Saturday48°Mostly Sunny
Saturday Night34°Partly Cloudy
Sunday50°Sunny
NWS forecast for Virginia City, MT
Source: National Weather Service, TFX forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
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.
Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026
Who answers for this land
Clover Meadows Dispersed Camping and Picnic Area 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 →
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.
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
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.
Nearest place of any size: Virginia City, MT, 18.2 mi SSE. Straight line.