Copper Creek Campground
4Heads up4 fires, nearest 18 mi
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Copper Creek Campground is located in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest in southwest Montana. At an elevation of 5,500 feet, the campground covers an area of 2 acres. It is a small campground offering 8 campsites on the Middle Fork of Rock Creek, which is great fishery. Water and restrooms (handicap accessible) are provided. Pets are welcome as long as they are kept on a leash. The maximum recommended trailer length for the area is 22 feet. Please limit your stay to 16 days within a 30 day period.
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $15 with nothing added. 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 · 5
What you actually pay
“$15 per night, with an extra vehicle fee of $5.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($15), 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 · 6
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Moose Lake CabinDeerlodge National Forest · 1.0 miSpillway CampgroundDeerlodge National Forest · 8.8 miEast Fork Group Picnic AreaDeerlodge National Forest · 8.9 mi
West Fork Of Rock Creek Cabin (MT)Deerlodge National Forest · 11 mi
Martin Creek CampgroundBitterroot National Forest · 13 mi
East Fork CabinBitterroot National Forest · 13 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Anaconda-Deer Lodge County, MT
Typical weather
Typical October night 26°F, day 54°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 10°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
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
Copper 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 →