Divide Bridge Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
A series of small recreation sites are located along a 73-mile stretch of the Big Hole River between Wisdom and Melrose. The river offers blue ribbon trout fishing and excellent float boating. Nine of the sites are managed by BLM. Beginning at Melrose and going west, the sites are: Maiden Rock I, Maiden Rock East, Divide Bridge, Divide Campground, Jerry Creek Bridge, Dickie Bridge, East Bank, Sawlog Creek, and Pintlar Creek. Facilities: Divide Bridge Day Use - boat ramp, restrooms, picnic area, information kiosk. Divide Bridge Campground - 21 camping units with tables and fire-rings, boat ramp, restrooms, potable water, night lights, volunteer host and information kiosk.
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and fire-rings, boat ramp, restrooms, potable water, night lights, volunteer host and information…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Picnicking
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. 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
How we know this receipt · 4
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Fleecer StationDeerlodge National Forest · 7.1 mi
Canyon Creek CabinDillon Field Office · 7.7 mi
Beaverdam Campground and Picnic AreaDeerlodge National Forest · 9.0 miCanyon Creek CampgroundBeaverhead National Forest · 12 miBasin Canyon Campground and Picnic Area13 mi
Pettengill CampgroundBeaverhead National Forest · 14 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Butte-Silver Bow (balance), MT
Typical weather
Typical October night 28°F, day 57°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December 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
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
Divide Bridge 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 →