Kreis Pond Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 16 mi
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Season
- April 1 – December 1Open April 1 through December 1
The place
the agency’s own description
In the agency’s own words
Close to the Ninemile Ranger Station and Grand Menard Picnic Area, this campground offers mountain biking opportunities and has seven campsites and a day use area with two grills.
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $10 with nothing added. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 5
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($10), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Quartz Flat Campground (MT)Lolo National Forest · 16 mi
Trout Creek Campground (MT)Lolo National Forest · 21 miClearwater Crossing CampgroundLolo National Forest · 22 mi
Lolo Creek Campground and Picnic AreaLolo National Forest · 23 mi
Thompson Peak Lookout TowerLolo National Forest · 23 mi
Cascade CampgroundLolo National Forest · 24 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Huson, MT
Typical weather
Typical October night 30°F, day 58°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical December night 19°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 moreOutside the published season
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
Kreis Pond 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 →