Dry Wolf Cabin
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:36 UTC
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Dry Wolf Cabin is located about 20 miles southwest of Stanford, Montana, in the Little Belt Mountains. The rustic cabin is conveniently located along Dry Wolf Creek, providing a pleasant setting for anglers, wildlife watchers and hikers. When snow arrives, access on the graveled county road is by four-wheel-drive only. Keep reading
Recreation
Anglers seek brook and rainbow trout in Dry Wolf Creek. A variety of horseback riding and hiking trails originate within a few miles of the cabin. Trails for mountain bikers and off-road vehicle riders are also in the area. Cross country skiing is popular in winter months.
Facilities
The cabin is a one-room structure that sleeps five. Amenities include a propane cook stove, propane lights and a wood stove for heat. Firewood is provided and is located in the storage shed near the cabin. DO NOT USE THE SUPPLIED FIREWOOD FOR OUTSIDE FIRES . Dishes, pots, pans and utensils are available, and a vault toilet is located year-round outside. No water or electricity is included. Guests are expected to bring plenty of water for drinking, food and cleaning supplies. Other items to bring: inside lighting, bedding, towels, matches, food, water, garbage bags, a cooler, flashlights, toilet paper and personal necessities. Guest must clean the cabin/toilet completely, pack out all food and trash upon departure. Wood box should be filled before departure.( Click here for more cabin details. ) Pets are not allowed in the cabin, but can be kept outside.
Natural Features
The cabin is nestled along Dry Wolf Creek at an elevation of 5,600 feet. Dry Wolf Creek is a tributary of the Judith River and flows north for about 40 miles in the Little Belt Mountains. Surrounding peaks include Gibson Peak and Butcherknife Mountain.
Nearby Attractions
Groceries and fuel may be found in Stanford, approximately 20 miles from the cabin. Bandbox Mountain, about an hour's drive, is a good place to hunt for marine fossils that are more than 100 million years old.
What the agency tells you
Please bring garbage bags; this is a 'pack in-pack out' facility
No water, electricity or sewer hookups
Cell phone reception is unreliable
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Firewood is provided for wood stove only; please restock firewood box prior to departure
Collect downed, dead wood for campfire firewood
Pets are NOT allowed in the cabin at any time. Pets are to be leashed on a six-foot or less leash or kenneled outside of the rental building if desired. Users are responsible for removing all pet food and droppings from rental site prior to departure.
No camping units permitted at cabin site
Visitors must clean cabin prior to departure; a fee will be charged if extra clean-up is needed. Check out time 11:00 AM.
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 cabin
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…pans and utensils are available, and a vault toilet is located year-round outside. No water or…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…is included. Guests are expected to bring plenty of water for drinking, food and cleaning supplies. Other…”
- Firewood
- Mentioned
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Biking
- Cross Country Skiing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Mountain biking
- Scenic drives
- Snowmobiling
- Wildlife viewing
Full this Saturdayread 16:36 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBooked
The one site on offer is taken this Friday and Saturday. 1 is free on Wed, Oct 21. read 16:36 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
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Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
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 · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 16:36 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 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. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA DRY WOLF CABIN | 001 | cabin nonelectric | 351 ft | $55 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Judith Guard StationLewis & Clark National Forest · 15 mi
Kings Hill CabinLewis & Clark National Forest · 15 miHay Canyon CampgroundLewis & Clark National Forest · 18 miFrom Stanford, Montana, go a mile northwest on US 87, then turn left on County Road 251 (Dry Wolf Road). Continue for 15 miles and look for a sign to Dry Wolf Station. Turn left onto short parking spur of the cabin site.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Neihart, MT
Typical weather
Typical October night 28°F, day 53°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 12°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 · a letter you can send
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Dry Wolf Cabin is in Montana’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Troy Downing (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyTroy DowningU.S. Representative · Montana’s 2nd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationSteve DainesU.S. Senator · Montana
- Your senator, on the same appropriationTim SheehyU.S. Senator · Montana
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Dry Wolf Cabin, Lewis & Clark National Forest, Montana
Dear Troy Downing, I’m a constituent in Montana’s 2nd district. I tried to camp at Dry Wolf Cabin, Lewis & Clark National Forest, Montana, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Dry Wolf Cabin are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Dry Wolf Cabin keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Dry Wolf Cabin. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Dry Wolf Cabin (Lewis & Clark National Forest, Montana) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Dry Wolf Cabin, Lewis & Clark National Forest, Montana
Dear Steve Daines, I’m a constituent in Montana. I tried to camp at Dry Wolf Cabin, Lewis & Clark National Forest, Montana, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Dry Wolf Cabin are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Dry Wolf Cabin keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Dry Wolf Cabin. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Dry Wolf Cabin (Lewis & Clark National Forest, Montana) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Dry Wolf Cabin, Lewis & Clark National Forest, Montana
Dear Tim Sheehy, I’m a constituent in Montana. I tried to camp at Dry Wolf Cabin, Lewis & Clark National Forest, Montana, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Dry Wolf Cabin are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Dry Wolf Cabin keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Dry Wolf Cabin. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Dry Wolf Cabin (Lewis & Clark National Forest, Montana) via campanac.com