U.S. Forest Service · Gallatin National Forest · MT

Greek Creek Campground

ReservableOut of season, no booking; November 21 opens May 21.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$26From, per site
Sites
14All of them booked ahead
5,630 ftElevation
353 ftWater · Gallatin River
5.3 miNE of Big Sky, MT
35%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 435th darkest of 501 in MT

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices

In the agency’s own words

Greek Creek Campground is located in scenic Gallatin Canyon, in the Bozeman Ranger District of the Gallatin National Forest. It is 30 miles south of the city of Bozeman, Montana. The surrounding area offers many outdoor recreational opportunities, including fishing, rafting, hiking and viewing local wildlife. Keep reading

Recreation

Great opportunities for hiking, fishing, scenic driving and wildlife viewing are available around the campground. Anglers cast for rainbow, brown, brook and cutthroat trout, whitefish and Arctic grayling on the Gallatin River. Rafting and kayaking are popular activities as well. Many trails can be found in Gallatin Canyon. The Swan Creek Trail begins at nearby Swan Creek Campground. Golden Trout Lakes Trail begins near the Portal Creek Road, about six miles south of the campground.

Facilities

The campground offers single-family campsites, each equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Roads within the campground are paved, while parking spurs are gravel.

Natural Features

The campground sits just off Highway 191 at an elevation of 5,600 feet. A beautiful forest of spruce, fir and cottonwood trees covers most of the campground. A variety of wildlife makes its home in this scenic canyon. Visitors can often glimpse bald eagles, bighorn sheep, moose, elk, mountain goats, deer and coyote. Black and grizzly bears also live in the canyon. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.

What the agency tells you

Rule

Bears frequent the area; all food must be stored in approved containers and secured when campsite is unoccupied.

Rule

Click here for more information on the Gallatin National Forest

Rule

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
Rule

Firewood - $10.00 per bundle

Rule

Check In - 2:00 PM Check Out - 12:00 PM/Noon Quiet hours 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM

Rule

No RV Dump Station is located in any of the USFS campgrounds managed by ExplorUS in the Custer-Gallatin National Forest.

Rule

There are NO Shower facilities available at this campground.

Rule

Camping fee covers 2 vehicles or RV/Trailer with tow vehicle. An extra vehicle fee of $9.00 is charged for each additional vehicle per night of stay. If you have an extra vehicle, it must fit on the campsite parking spur.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Tents and rigs

Sites
14
Hookups
None
Accessible sites
None listed
Pets
Allowed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade
13 of 14 sites
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets
“…with a picnic table and campfire ring. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided.…”
Drinking water
Yes
“…table and campfire ring. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Roads within the…”
Camp host
On site
recreation.gov lists “Host”

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, River, Creek
Birding
Fishing
Kayaking
Rafting
Stargazing
Water access
Wildlife viewing
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On November 21, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 21, 2027.recreation.govAdd to calendar (.ics)
Max stay16 nightsthe facility record
A night$26plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
A weekend$60DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itRocky Mountain Recreation CompanyA private concessionaire under permit from U.S. Forest Service (parent: ExplorUS)the operator link
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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
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’ll write once, when the season that starts Fri, May 21 2027 is open for booking.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 13

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night$26
Standard Nonelectric$26
These are next season’s rates, May 14, 2027 to May 20, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicle$9

“An extra vehicle fee of $9.00 is charged for each additional vehicle per night of stay.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice

What a stay costs
One nightDerived$34
A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$60

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $26 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

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

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

15 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 14 mapped sites
86 ftbetween you and the next site, typically
Least roomLoop HILL 007 49 ftLoop HILL 008 49 ftLoop HILL 005 60 ft

All 15 records

15 of 15 records located
Standard14Host pad1
SleepsUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 14 of the 15 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

HILL001standard nonelectric86 ft303 ft$26
HILL002standard nonelectric127 ft365 ft$26
HILL003standard nonelectric86 ft353 ft$26
HILL004 Hosthost pad369 ft
HILL005standard nonelectric60 ft396 ft$26
HILL006standard nonelectric60 ft368 ft$26
HILL007standard nonelectric49 ft438 ft$26
HILL008standard nonelectric49 ft422 ft$26
HILL009standard nonelectric234 ft363 ft$26
RIVE010standard nonelectric86 ft138 ft$26
RIVE011standard nonelectric86 ft84 ft$26
RIVE012standard nonelectric85 ft137 ft$26
RIVE013standard nonelectric85 ft148 ft$26
RIVE014standard nonelectric156 ft95 ft$26
RIVE015standard nonelectric243 ft66 ft$26

The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight30°Partly Cloudy
Saturday64°Mostly Sunny
Saturday Night29°Partly Cloudy
Sunday61°Mostly Sunny

NWS forecast for Big Sky, MT

Typical weather

Typical October night 25°F, day 53°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 9°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°0°

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.

Measured at: BIG SKY 2WNW, MT (USC00240775), 10 miles away and 960 ft higher

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

Roadless
Gallatin Fringe51,571 acres · 7 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Hyalite - Porcupine - Buffalo Horn Wilderness Study Area143,991 acres · 10 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 16, 2026

Who answers for this land

Ryan Zinke, official portrait

Greek 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 →

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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: the number below is the only way to be sure.
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.