Greenough Lake
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 18All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Greenough Lake Campground is within walking distance of its namesake, 12 miles south of Red Lodge, in southern Montana. It is located just off the scenic Beartooth Highway. The area is a popular location for fishing, hiking and scenic driving. Glacier Lake, Hellroaring and Lake Fork trailheads are nearby. Keep reading
Recreation
Greenough Lake offers canoeing, kayaking and rainbow trout fishing. The Main Fork of Rock Creek is also a popular fishing stream. The Beartooth Wilderness can be accessed via the Hellroaring and Lake Fork trailheads, both of which are not far from the campground. Visitors also enjoy mountain biking and hiking on the Parkside National Recreation Trail. Hellroaring Road is open to off-road vehicles.
Facilities
The campground offers single-family campsites, two of which are accessible. Each site is equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring. Accessible vault toilets and hand-pumped drinking water are provided.
Natural Features
The campground sits in the shadow of the Beartooth Range, on the banks of Rock Creek, less than a quarter-mile from beautiful Greenough Lake. A forest of aspen and pine trees covers the area. A variety of wildlife, including grizzly bears, deer and elk, makes its home in the surrounding area.
Nearby Attractions
The charming town of Red Lodge, Mont., offers a variety of dining and lodging options, galleries, shops and annual summer events. The Home of Champions Rodeo is held on the Fourth of July weekend, the Beartooth Bike Rally and Iron Horse Rodeo take place in mid-July, the Mountain Man Rendezvous is in late July, and the Festival of Nations happens in early August. The Beartooth Highway was deemed "the most beautiful drive in America," by the late Charles Kuralt. It snakes across the rugged Beartooth Mountains from Red Lodge to Cooke City. It is the highest elevation highway in the Northern Rockies. Along the way, visitors are treated to sweeping views and plentiful opportunities for outdoor recreation. Yellowstone National Park's northeast entrance is 55 miles from the campground, via the Beartooth Highway. The park offers unparalleled wildlife viewing opportunities, as well as breathtaking scenery and unique geological features. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (928) 537-8888.
Charges & Cancellations
Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This cancellation processing fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
What the agency tells you
Standard Single Family sites: Recreation Use Fee allows ONE camping unit ONLY.
Extra Vehicles: Cannot be paid for in advance - upon arrival coordinate with the host for payment and where to park.
Late Arrivals: campers are not considered a "no-show" until 24 hours after arrival date check in time. Our policy is that your site will not be released before that.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
FIRST COME FIRST SERVE sites must be booked in person. DO NOT call to determine availability, as they are only available on-site.
Bears frequent the area; please obey all food storage rules and regulations. Check with your host for details.
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. Firewood bundles can be purchased from the campground host.
Click here for more information on the Custer National Forest
Opening and closing dates are weather permitting, please call 928-537-8888 for more information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 18
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 15 of 18 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…table and campfire ring. Accessible vault toilets and hand-pumped drinking water are provided.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Accessible vault toilets and hand-pumped drinking water are provided. Natural Features The campground sits…”
- Store
- Nearby
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Off Road Vehicle Trails
- Scenic drives
- Night sky · 220th darkest of 501 in MT
- Bortle 2
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.
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 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.
“Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee.” · this campground’s own terms
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
The sites
18 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 18 mapped sitesAll 18 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 18 of the 18 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
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 18 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA GREENOUGH LAKE | 01 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 81 ft | 154 ft | 863 ft | $20 | |
| AREA GREENOUGH LAKE | 02 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 81 ft | 168 ft | 911 ft | $20 | |
| AREA GREENOUGH LAKE | 03 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 99 ft | 163 ft | 994 ft | $20 | |
| AREA GREENOUGH LAKE | 04 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 99 ft | 226 ft | 1,086 ft | $20 | |
| AREA GREENOUGH LAKE | 05 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 81 ft | 226 ft | 1,164 ft | $20 | |
| AREA GREENOUGH LAKE | 06 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 46 ft | 261 ft | 1,244 ft | $20 | |
| AREA GREENOUGH LAKE | 07 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 46 ft | 221 ft | 1,260 ft | $20 | |
| AREA GREENOUGH LAKE | 08 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 50 ft | 220 ft | 1,315 ft | $20 | |
| AREA GREENOUGH LAKE | 09 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 50 ft | 172 ft | 1,320 ft | $20 |
| AREA GREENOUGH LAKE | 10 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 92 ft | 136 ft | 1,412 ft | $20 | |
| AREA GREENOUGH LAKE | 11 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | yes | 123 ft | 233 ft | 1,463 ft | $20 |
| AREA GREENOUGH LAKE | 12 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 122 ft | 336 ft | 1,350 ft | $20 | |
| AREA GREENOUGH LAKE | 13 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 67 ft | 399 ft | 1,244 ft | $20 | |
| AREA GREENOUGH LAKE | 14 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 67 ft | 337 ft | 1,180 ft | $20 | |
| AREA GREENOUGH LAKE | 15 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 146 ft | 303 ft | 1,079 ft | $20 | |
| AREA GREENOUGH LAKE | 16 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 38 ft | 255 ft | 948 ft | $20 | |
| AREA GREENOUGH LAKE | 17 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 38 ft | 217 ft | 911 ft | $20 | |
| AREA GREENOUGH LAKE | 18 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 56 ft | 200 ft | 888 ft | $20 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Limber PineCuster National Forest · 0.2 mi
ParksideCuster National Forest · 0.4 miParkside Campground and Group CampsitesCuster National Forest · 0.5 miM-K CampgroundCuster National Forest · 1.5 miRattin CampgroundCuster National Forest · 4.9 mi
Rattin CampgroundCuster National Forest · 5.8 miFrom U.S. Highway 212, turn off at Rock Creek Road (Forest Road 2421). Go 1 mile to campground entrance, which is on the left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Red Lodge, MT
Typical weather
Typical October night 32°F, day 52°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 17°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
Greenough Lake 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 →