Hood Creek Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $26From, per site
- Sites
- 24All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Hood Creek Campground is located next to scenic Hyalite Reservoir, on the Bozeman Ranger District of the Gallatin National Forest. It is 17 miles south of the city of Bozeman, Mont. The surrounding area offers many outdoor recreational opportunities, including boating, canoeing, fishing, hiking and climbing. Keep reading
Recreation
Hyalite Reservoir offers many recreational activities, including boating, canoeing and fishing. Anglers fish for Yellowstone cutthroat, Arctic grayling and brook trout. Hyalite Creek offers fishing as well. Many hiking trails are found in Hyalite Canyon, including the popular Hyalite Peak Trail. This 7.5-mile one-way trail gains 3,450 feet in elevation as is climbs past numerous waterfalls to the beautiful Hyalite Lake and Hyalite Peak.
Facilities
The campground offers sites for both overnight camping and day-use picnicking. A GROUP AREA (SITE 28) for overnight camping is also available for reservation, and can accommodate up to 80 people. Picnic tables and campfire rings are provided, as are vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection. A boat ramp is located on-site. Roads and parking spurs within the campground are gravel.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the banks of scenic Hyalite Reservoir, at an elevation of 6,700 feet. Some campsites lie in open meadows along the shoreline, while others are located among scattered pine and fir trees. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.
What the agency tells you
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.
Bears frequent the area, all food must be stored in approved containers and secured when campsite is uoccupied.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Firewood is available $10.00/bundle.
Check in 2:00 PM - Check Out 12:00 PM/Noon Quiet hours are 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM.
No RV Dump Station is located in any of the USFS campgrounds managed by ExplorUS in the Custer-Gallatin National Forest.
There are NO Shower facilities located at this campground.
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 24 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 17 of 21 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and campfire rings are provided, as are vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection. A boat ramp…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…are provided, as are vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection. A boat ramp is located…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Reservoir, Lake, Creek, Beach, Meadow
- Backpacking
- Berry Picking
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Mountain biking
- Mushroom Picking
- Off Road Vehicle Trails
- Picnicking
- Stargazing
- Night sky · 473rd darkest of 501 in MT
- Bortle 3
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.
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 · 14
What you actually pay
“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
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.
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
26 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 24 mapped sitesAll 26 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. 24 of the 26 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 001 Host | host pad | 39 ft | 48 ft | |||
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 98 ft | 137 ft | $26 | |
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 98 ft | 105 ft | $26 | |
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 161 ft | 67 ft | $26 | |
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 005 Host | host pad | 101 ft | ||||
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 155 ft | 119 ft | $26 |
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 154 ft | 128 ft | $26 | |
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 154 ft | 130 ft | $26 | |
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 107 ft | 173 ft | $26 | |
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 103 ft | 190 ft | $26 | |
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 103 ft | 177 ft | $26 | |
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 111 ft | 160 ft | $26 | |
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 58 ft | 145 ft | $26 | |
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 58 ft | 203 ft | $26 | |
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 117 ft | 166 ft | $26 | |
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 107 ft | 283 ft | $26 | |
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 107 ft | 287 ft | $26 | |
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 124 ft | 197 ft | $26 | |
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 83 ft | 152 ft | $26 | |
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 83 ft | 171 ft | $26 | |
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 024 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 117 ft | 21 ftHood Creek | $26 | |
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 025 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 91 ft | 66 ftHood Creek | $26 | |
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 026 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 47 ft | 60 ft | $26 | |
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 027 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 47 ft | 71 ft | $26 | |
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 028 | group standard nonelectric | 150 ft | 83 ft | $185 | ||
| AREA HOOD CREEK CAMPGROUND | 029 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 133 ft | 164 ft | $26 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It names them host pads. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 26 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Maxey CabinGallatin National Forest · 0.9 mi
Chisholm CampgroundGallatin National Forest · 0.9 mi
Window Rock CabinGallatin National Forest · 1.6 mi
Fox Creek Cabin (MT)Gallatin National Forest · 3.7 mi
Langohr CampgroundGallatin National Forest · 4.1 mi
Mystic Lake CabinMystic Lake Reservoir Water Reserve Withdrawal · 4.5 miFrom Main Street in Bozeman, travel south on 19th Avenue for 7 miles, to the paved Hyalite Canyon Road. Turn left and continue 10 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for South Glastonbury, 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.
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
Hood 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 →