Eagle Creek Campground - Custer Gallatin National Forest
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15–$30Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 20All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Eagle Creek Campground is located 2 miles northeast of the town of Gardiner on Jardine Road and approximately 55 miles south of the city of Livingston along scenic HWY 89 S. At an elevation of 6100 feet, the campground overlooks Yellowstone National Park's majestic peaks. This 20-site campground has gravel roads with unpaved sites that accommodate a maximum of 48’ RVs. The Yellowstone River Trailhead is also located within this campground. Vault toilets, fire rings, picnic tables, and horse corrals are provided to the public. There are no hook-ups available. Food storage order is in effect from March 1st through December 1st. Keep reading
Recreation
The Yellowstone River Trailhead is located within the camground. There are horse corrals for use by campers and day users. Many other hiking opportunities are locted within a 15 minute drive. The Yellowstone River is close by with access to rafting and fishing activites.
Facilities
Eagle Creek campground offers 20 sites for use by RV or tents. 18 sites are single sites, two sites are double sites. Sites 19 and 20 are located adjacent to horse corrals and are reserved for stock users until 4 pm and then are first come first serve for 1 night only. Not all sites are level. There are no hook-ups available. There is no water or sewer dump located close to the campground. Food storage restrictions are in effect from March 1st through December 1st. Bear boxes are located at each site to store food and other bear attractants.
Natural Features
The campground is located at about 6100 feet overlooking the Gallatin Mountains. There is a small creek that runs along the west side of the campground filled with small Aspen trees. It is not uncommon to have Elk roaming through and bedding in the grass.
Nearby Attractions
The Northwest entrance to Yellowstone National Park is located about a 10 minute drive away and offers unparalleled wildlife viewing opportunities, breathtaking scenery and unique geological features. Soak and relax at Yellowstone Hotsprings resort situated in the nearby town of Corwin Springs.
What the agency tells you
Bears frequent the area; all food must be stored in approved containers and secured when campsite is unoccupied.
Click here for more information on the Gallatin National Forest
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 .
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Campfires must be completely extinguished while campsite is unoccupied and before leaving!
Please remember, The first two vehicles are included in the reservation fee for a single site, four vechicles for a double site. Any additional vehicles will be assessed a $5.00/night extra vehicle fee upon arrival at your site. This fee will be need to be deposited in the self service fee station.
Check-out time is 12:00pm (Noon), Check-in time is 1:00pm
Reserved campsites will be held until check-out time on the day following your scheduled arrival.
Campground is usually full for most of the season. Don't expect the First come First serve sites to be unoccupied. There are limited camping options in the area. Have a PLAN B if you do not have a reservation!
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 20 · 2 equestrian
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…is also located within this campground. Vault toilets, fire rings, picnic tables, and horse corrals are…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Backpacking
- Biking
- Birding
- Hiking
- Horse Camping
- Horseback riding
- Mountain biking
- Stargazing
- Wildlife viewing
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:40 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 17
What you actually pay
“Any additional vehicles will be assessed a $5.00/night extra vehicle fee upon arrival at your site.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $15–$30 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 15:40 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
20 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 20 mapped sitesAll 20 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. 18 of the 20 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | 1 | standard nonelectric | 269 ft | 58 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 10 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 114 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 11 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 135 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 12 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 123 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 13 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 204 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 14 | standard nonelectric | 114 ft | 309 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 15 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 317 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 16 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 244 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 17 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 204 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 18 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 248 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 2 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 58 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 3 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 84 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 4 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 73 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 5 | standard nonelectric | 143 ft | 366 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 6 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 42 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 7 | standard nonelectric | 112 ft | 50 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 8 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 95 ft | $15–$30 |
| A | 9 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 92 ft | $15–$30 |
| Equestrian | 19 | equestrian nonelectric | 143 ft | 414 ft | |
| Equestrian | 20 | equestrian nonelectric | 146 ft | 529 ft |
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
Mammoth Campground (Yellowstone)Yellowstone National Park · 4.8 mi
Timber Camp CampgroundGallatin National Forest · 5.1 mi
Bear Creek Campground - MTGallatin National Forest · 6.1 mi
Indian Creek Campground (WY)Yellowstone National Park · 11 mi
Canyon CampgroundGallatin National Forest · 14 miCarbellaButte Field Office · 16 miFrom Livingston, MT - Head south toward Gardiner, MT on Highway 89 for 54 miles. Turn Left onto Jardine Rd. Go .9 miles, stay right at the split. Head another 1.2 miles, campground will be on your left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Gardiner, MT
Typical weather
Typical October night 29°F, day 54°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January 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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Eagle Creek Campground - Custer Gallatin National Forest 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 →