U.S. Forest Service · Kootenai National Forest · MT

Lake Creek Campground

1Heads up1 fire 21 mi away
Wildfire
Deer Creek fire · 21 mi away · 1,099 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 13, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.

This is how it should work.

Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
Drawn from the record · 3,370 ft · 70% tree cover · Lake Creek within reach · Bortle 2 sky
3,370 ftElevation
513 ftWater · Lake Creek
22.6 miS of Libby, MT
70%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 214th darkest of 501 in MT

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

The Lake Creek Campground is located approximately 32 miles southwest of Libby off the West Fisher road. The campground has 4 sites all with tent pads, tables and fire rings and able to accomodate up to a 32' rv. There are also 4 dispersed campsites. Campground roads and and parking spurs are gravel or native material. Amenities include potable water and vault toilets.

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets
“…Amenities include potable water and vault toilets.”
Drinking water
Yes
“…or native material. Amenities include potable water and vault toilets.”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, Creek
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Nothing to book, just show up

One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. 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.

BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe agency’s record
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 3

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4

rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight39°Partly Cloudy
Saturday62°Sunny2% rain
Saturday Night34°Mostly Clear1% rain
Sunday59°Sunny

NWS forecast for Happys Inn, MT

Typical weather

Typical October night 27°F, day 52°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 15°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°10°

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.

Measured at: LIBBY 32 SSE, MT (USC00245020), 14 miles away and 70 ft higher

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

critical
Roadless
Barren Creek14,534 acres · 4 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Allen Peak29,638 acres · 7 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Mckay Creek15,323 acres · 7 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 4, 2026

Who answers for this land

Ryan Zinke, official portrait

Lake 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Happys Inn, MT, 12.1 mi W (a census designated place). Straight line.