Holland Lake Campground
1Heads up1 fire 34 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $22From, per site
- Sites
- 4240 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Holland Lake Campground and Group Site are located on the shores of Holland Lake in the Swan Valley of northwest Montana. Holland Lake Campground is a great place to enjoy the Flathead National Forest. It offers clean campsites with great lake access and ample opportunities for hiking on the scenic Holland Falls National Recreation Trail. Holland Lake Campground has 38 rentable sites, 24 of which are reservable and 14 for walk-up visitors. The stay limit is 16 consecutive days in the regular camp sites and 10 days in the group site. Keep reading
Recreation
The trailhead for the popular and easy Holland Falls National Recreation Trail is near the campground. The 1.6-mile trail climbs 750 feet, following the shoreline of Holland Lake to the base of Holland Falls waterfall. Holland Lake provides visitors with plenty of access to water-related recreation. Boating is popular on the lake, as well as water skiing and fishing. Anglers can look forward to catching a variety of trout and Kokanee salmon. Paddleboards, Kayaks and Canoes are available for rent for $10/hr., $25/4 hrs. or $40/8hrs.
Facilities
The campground offers 38 individual sites, a day use area and a group site, available for tent and RV camping. Some sites are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Each site is equipped with tables and campfire rings with grills. Parking areas are covered in gravel, dirt or grass. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. A boat ramp to the lake, as well as boat trailer parking, is also available. There are no electricity or sewer hookups at the campground. The campground also has day use picnic areas equipped with tables and grills. They are near the lake and provide access to the lake's gravel beaches.
Natural Features
At an elevation of 4,050 feet, the campground sits among Tamarack, Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir trees. There are some sites close to the 416-acre lake; others are further back or higher on the bank. A variety of wildlife, including grizzly and black bear, make their home in the area. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (406) 210-8199.
Nearby Attractions
The campground is 25 miles north of the charming town of Seeley Lake.
Charges & Cancellations
Please cancel 4 days prior to first day of reservation. For day of arrival cancellations please call Leona at 406- 210-8199 so we can get the information to the Campground Host. All Considerations will be made after your original reservation dates have passed. *No shows have no chance of a refund.
What the agency tells you
CHECK OUT TIME IS 11:00 A.M. Check in is at 2:00 p.m.
The site fee is per camping unit. A camping unit is an RV, trailer, motorhome, camper, tent, mobile sleeping unit, etc. Most sites are big enough for 2 camping units. Please be prepared to pay the at the self serve fee tube for any additional camping units (cash or check only accepted).
If a site is not available for reservation online, it is shown as a first-come, first-served (FF) or walk-in (W) site. These sites will be identified at the campground on maps and campsite post markers with a W. If you move to a W spot upon arrival, you will be charged for the additonal spot.
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Reserved sites will be held until check out time (11am) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released.
We do not allow reservation holders to change campsites and move to a Walk-up campsite upon arrival. Most of our campsites are available for advanced reservations, and you must occupy the site you reserve. If upon arrival you want to move into a walk in spot, you will have to pay for that spot at the campground.
You are allowed 2 passenger vehicles per site, the first vehicle is included in the site fee and an extra vehicle charge of $5.00/vehicle per night will be collected at the campground. Sites that are identified as double occupancy can accommodate an additional camping unit. In this situation, you will be charged for each camping unit upon arrival payable at the campground (cash or check only please).
Drop Camping is illegal without a Forest Service permit. If you rent a camper it may not be delivered by the owner.
There is a food storage order in effect on the Flathead National Forest. Know how to store all attractants all the time. See your Campground Host for more information or visit: https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/flathead/recreation/?cid=stelprdb5347448
Horses are not allowed in the campground
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.
For the 2026 season, the permitted concessionaire for the Holland Lake Campground will supply portable restrooms for the Bay Loop area where flushing restrooms are closed. The RV dump station will be closed this season but potable water will be available. The areas already serviced by vault toilets will remain open with no change.
Click here for more information on the Flathead National Forest
Changes and Cancellations If I book this reservation today, what are my options to change or cancel? Please remember that reservations at these facilities prevent other visitors from using these sites. Planned changes to your stay should be made as far in advance as possible. You can make changes to your reservation ahead of your arrival date in Reservations. Changes If your new stay dates are completely different from your original stay dates, there is a $10 change fee (per reserved site). Cancellations Starting 2025, Holland Lake Group site will require a non-refundable down payment. Reservations will require a down payment of $100 per night. The remaining balance must be paid no later than 30 days prior to check-in. The Recreation.gov site will send the guest up to two reminder emails with links to facilitate payment. Those emails are sent seven days and 24 hours before the 30 day deadline. Down payments are non-refundable. If you do not complete the payment by the 30 day deadline, your reservation will be cancelled and the down payment forfeited. If you place a reservation 30 days or less prior to check-in, you must pay the down payment and the remaining rental fee at the time of reservation. If you cancel after that point you will be responsible for the $10 cancellation fee and forfeit the down payment. If you cancel within 14 days of the check-in date, you will forfeit the down payment and one day at the rental rate, as well as the $10 cancellation fee. This is an automated process and Holland Lake personnel cannot make changes.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 42 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 74 ft
- Paved pads
- 3 of 42
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…are covered in gravel, dirt or grass. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. A boat ramp to the…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…gravel, dirt or grass. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. A boat ramp to the lake, as well as…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Lake, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 205th darkest of 501 in MT
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, 24 km away
- No change
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 40 of the 42 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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.
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.
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What you actually pay
“You are allowed two motorized vehicles per site, the first vehicle is included in the site fee and an extra vehicle charge of $5.00/day per vehicle will be collected upon arrival at the campground.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
“Group Site Reservation (G1): 1 - 25 people - $200/night 26 - 50 people - $250/night 51 - 75 people - $300/night 76 - 100 people - $350/night There is no extra vehicle charge in the group site.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $22 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.
“Please cancel 4 days prior to first day of reservation. For day of arrival cancellations please call Leona at 406- 210-8199 so we can get the information to the Campground Host. All Considerations will be made after your original reservation dates have passed. *No shows have no chance of a refund.” · this campground’s own no-show 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 · 7
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
43 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 40 mapped sitesAll 43 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 41 of the 43 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A - Group | DAYUSE | day use | 48 ft | 384 ft | 352 ft | ||
| A - Group | GRP1 | group standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 390 ft | 258 ft | ||
| B - LARC | 001 | standard nonelectric | 187 ft | 136 ft | $22 | ||
| B - LARC | 002 | standard nonelectric | 108 ft | 121 ft | $22 | ||
| B - LARC | 003 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 108 ft | 107 ft | $22 | |
| B - LARC | 004 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 129 ft | 240 ft | $22 | |
| B - LARC | 005 | standard nonelectric | 129 ft | 114 ft | $22 | ||
| B - LARC | 006 | standard nonelectric | 129 ft | 143 ft | $22 | ||
| B - LARC | 007 | standard nonelectric | 173 ft | 315 ft | $22 | ||
| B - LARC | 008 | standard nonelectric | 173 ft | 189 ft | $22 | ||
| B - LARC | 009 | standard nonelectric | 134 ft | 409 ft | $22 | ||
| B - LARC | 010 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 109 ft | 211 ft | $22 | |
| B - LARC | 011 | standard nonelectric | 134 ft | 374 ft | $22 | ||
| B - LARC | 012 | standard nonelectric | yes | 67 ft | 319 ft | $22 | |
| B - LARC | 013 | standard nonelectric | 109 ft | 193 ft | $22 | ||
| B - LARC | 014 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 323 ft | $22 | ||
| B - LARC | 015 | standard nonelectric | 121 ft | 245 ft | $22 | ||
| C - BAY | 017 | type not stated | 48 ft | 223 ft | $22–$44 | ||
| C - BAY | 018 | standard nonelectric | 131 ft | 91 ft | $22 | ||
| C - BAY | 019 | standard nonelectric | 103 ft | 202 ft | $22 | ||
| C - BAY | 020 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 118 ft | 102 ft | $22 | |
| C - BAY | 021 | standard nonelectric | 78 ft | 117 ft | $22 | ||
| C - BAY | 022 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 231 ft | $22 | ||
| C - BAY | 023 | standard nonelectric | 78 ft | 121 ft | $22 | ||
| C - BAY | 024 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 146 ft | 241 ft | $22 | |
| C - BAY | 025 | standard nonelectric | 101 ft | 359 ft | $22 | ||
| C - BAY | 026 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 304 ft | $22 | ||
| C - BAY | 027 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 291 ft | $22 | ||
| C - BAY | 028 | standard nonelectric | 103 ft | 290 ft | $22 | ||
| C - BAY | 029 | standard nonelectric | 81 ft | 230 ft | $22 | ||
| C - BAY | 030 | standard nonelectric | 96 ft | 150 ft | $22 | ||
| C - BAY | 031 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 275 ft | $22 | ||
| C - BAY | 032 | standard nonelectric | 111 ft | 129 ft | $22 | ||
| C - BAY | 033 | standard nonelectric | 111 ft | 182 ft | $22 | ||
| C - BAY | 034 | standard nonelectric | 110 ft | 70 ft | $22 | ||
| C - BAY | 035 | standard nonelectric | 110 ft | 132 ft | $22 | ||
| C - BAY | 036 | standard nonelectric | 149 ft | 186 ft | $22 | ||
| C - BAY | 037 | standard nonelectric | 126 ft | 258 ft | $22 | ||
| C - BAY | 038 | standard nonelectric | 150 ft | 397 ft | $22 | ||
| C - BAY | 039 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | yes | 81 ft | 299 ft | $22 |
| C - BAY | 040 | standard nonelectric | 115 ft | 413 ft | $22 | ||
| S&P | Double Occupancy S&P | type not stated | $22–$44 | ||||
| S&P | Single Occupancy, S&P | type not stated | $22–$44 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 43 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Owl Creek CorralFlathead National Forest · 0.9 mi
Owl Creek CabinFlathead National Forest · 1.8 miLindbergh Lake CampgroundFlathead National Forest · 6.3 mi
Rainy Lake CampgroundLolo National Forest · 8.1 mi
Lake Alva CampgroundLolo National Forest · 8.9 miThe Holland Lake Campground and Group Site is located 7 miles south of Condon, Montana, and 20 miles north of Seeley Lake, Montana, off state Highway 83.
From Highway 83, turn east on Holland Lake Rd. and travel 3.5 miles to the intersection with Owl Creek Loop Road. Follow Holland Lake Road to the left and the entrances to the group site and campground are a short distance down the road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Condon, MT
Typical weather
Typical October night 32°F, day 52°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 16°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
Holland Lake 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 →