Henneberry House
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:38 UTC
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Dillon Field Office is unable to make reservations for you. Please call Recreation.gov (877-444-6777) to book a reservation or book online. This historic cabin, built in 1905, is located approximately 14 miles south of Dillon, Montana, on the banks of the Beaverhead River. The cabin provides access to a variety of outdoor recreational activities on adjacent public lands. The cabin and surrounding lands are managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Keep reading
Recreation
Recreation opportunities are right outside the door with world-class trout fishing on the Beaverhead River. There may also be opportunities for waterfowl hunting. Nearby opportunities for hunting, hiking, fishing, and 4WD touring through the mountains are plentiful.
Facilities
The cabin sleeps a maximum of eight people on two queen size fold-out futons, and four bunk beds; bedding is not provided. A propane stove/oven, lights, and small refrigerator, wood cook stove, wood stove, outhouse, non-potable water pump, and basic cooking and eating utensils are provided. No potable water is available. Firewood and propane are provided.
Natural Features
The Beaverhead River flows alongside the cabin across from Gallagher Creek and beneath Gallagher Mountain.
Nearby Attractions
The Beaverhead River, Clark Canyon Reservoir, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, Bannack State Park, and Virginia City are all opportunities for additional exploration in the surrounding area.
What the agency tells you
Maximum consecutive stay allowed at this site is 4 nights.
A combination code is needed to access the facility. Please check your confirmation letter for the combination code.
There is no boat launch at this site. Launching boats other than hand-carried tubes or boards is not allowed from this site.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Renters are responsible to clean the cabin for the next renter prior to checkout. Leave the facility in at least as good a condition as you found it. Failure to do so may result in additional fines and/or citations.
A high-clearance vehicle is recommended.
During winter and wet weather the road may be impassable.
Parking is available at the cabin for up to two vehicles. Overflow parking is available at the gate approximately ¼ mile from the cabin.
Because your permit is non-refundable we suggest you be prepared to access the cabin on foot if necessary.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 cabin
- Hookups
- 1 electric
- Longest rig
- 24 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…and eating utensils are provided. No potable water is available. Firewood and propane are provided.…”
- Firewood
- Mentioned
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, River, Creek
- Fishing
- Night sky · 238th darkest of 501 in MT
- Bortle 2
Full this Saturdayread 16:38 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBooked
The one site on offer is taken this Saturday, and on four midweek nights after it as well. read 16:38 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
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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 · 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 16:38 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.
| Henneberry House | Henneberry House | cabin electric | 24 ft | 56 ft | $75 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Birch Creek CabinBeaverhead National Forest · 24 mi
Dinner Station Campground and Picnic AreaBeaverhead National Forest · 25 mi
Horse Prairie Cabin26 mi
Grasshopper Campground (MT)Beaverhead National Forest · 31 mi
Price Creek Campground (MT)Beaverhead National Forest · 31 mi
Reservoir Lake Campground and Picnic AreaBeaverhead National Forest · 33 miAccess to the cabin is a short distance off I-15 south of Dillon. From Dillon, take the Dalys exit (#51) and turn left under the interstate, then right on the frontage road approximately 1/4 mile to an access gate and parking area on your left. You will need a combination to open the locked gate, and should lock the gate behind you to prevent other unauthorized vehicle use on this road. From here, the cabin is only 1/4 mile ahead on a lightly maintained gravel road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Dillon, MT
Typical weather
Typical October night 30°F, day 56°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 13°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
who answers for it · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Henneberry House 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 →
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 moneyRyan K. ZinkeU.S. Representative · Montana’s 1st 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 Henneberry House, Dillon Field Office, Montana
Dear Ryan K. Zinke, I’m a constituent in Montana’s 1st district. I tried to camp at Henneberry House, Dillon Field Office, Montana, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Henneberry House 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 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Henneberry House keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Henneberry House. I’m asking you to put it to the Bureau of Land Management 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 Henneberry House (Dillon Field Office, 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 Henneberry House, Dillon Field Office, Montana
Dear Steve Daines, I’m a constituent in Montana. I tried to camp at Henneberry House, Dillon Field Office, Montana, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Henneberry House 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 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Henneberry House keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Henneberry House. I’m asking you to put it to the Bureau of Land Management 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 Henneberry House (Dillon Field Office, 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 Henneberry House, Dillon Field Office, Montana
Dear Tim Sheehy, I’m a constituent in Montana. I tried to camp at Henneberry House, Dillon Field Office, Montana, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Henneberry House 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 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Henneberry House keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Henneberry House. I’m asking you to put it to the Bureau of Land Management 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 Henneberry House (Dillon Field Office, Montana) via campanac.com