Lonesomehurst Campground
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $26–$35Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 26All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lonesomehurst Campground is located on the banks of scenic Hebgen Lake, just 20 minutes from West Yellowstone, in southwestern Montana. Visitors enjoy the area for its boating, fishing and hiking opportunities, as well as its close proximity to Yellowstone National Park. Keep reading
Recreation
Hebgen Lake is considered Montana's premier stillwater fishing lake. Anglers will find a healthy population of brown, cutthroat and rainbow trout. Boating and swimming are popular activities on the lake. A boat ramp is located within the campground. Hiking, biking and off-road vehicle trails crisscross the surrounding area.
Facilities
The campground offers several single-family sites. Four RV-compatible sites have electric hookups. Picnic tables and campfire rings are provided,as well as vault toilets and drinking water. Firewood is available for purchase from the campground host.
Natural Features
Hebgen Lake sits on the Madison River, at an elevation of 6,240 feet. The lake covers 21 square miles and has 65 miles of shoreline. Lonesomehurst is situated on the South Fork Arm of the lake, among lodgepole pines. A variety of waterfowl is often spotted in the area, including Sandhill cranes, herons, Western grebes, white pelicans, osprey, Canada geese, mallards, wood ducks, loons and bald and golden eagles. Bison, deer and moose are frequently seen as well. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.
Nearby Attractions
West Yellowstone offers dining, shopping and lodging options. The Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center is a popular attraction with live grizzlies, gray wolves and birds of prey, and a variety of exhibits and educational programs. Yellowstone National Park offers unparalleled wildlife viewing opportunities, breathtaking scenery and unique geological features.
What the agency tells you
Bears frequent the area; all food must be stored in approved containers and secured when campsite is unoccupied.
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.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Firewood is available for sale at host site for $10.00/bundle.
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 available 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
- 26
- Hookups
- 14 electric
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campfire rings are provided,as well as vault toilets and drinking water. Firewood is available for…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…provided,as well as vault toilets and drinking water. Firewood is available for purchase from the…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Backpacking
- Berry Picking
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Stargazing
- Swimming
- Water access
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 293rd darkest of 501 in MT
- Bortle 2
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 · 15
What you actually pay
“Additional vehicles will be assessed a $8.00/night extra vehicle fee upon arrival at your site.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $26–$35 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
27 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 26 mapped sitesAll 27 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. 26 of the 27 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 01 Host Site | host pad | 45 ft | 50 amp | $35 | |||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 02 | standard electric | 50 amp | 113 ft | 138 ft | $35 | ||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 03 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 74 ft | $26 | |||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 04 | standard electric | 50 amp | 40 ft | 109 ft | $35 | ||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 05 | standard electric | 50 amp | 40 ft | 123 ft | $35 | ||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 06 | standard electric | 50 amp | 70 ft | 153 ft | $35 | ||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 07 | standard nonelectric | 126 ft | under 10 ft | $26 | |||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 08 | standard nonelectric | 96 ft | 166 ft | $26 | |||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 09 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 70 ft | $26 | |||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 10 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 38 ft | $26 | |||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 11 | standard electric | 49 ft | 148 ft | $35 | |||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 12 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 85 ft | $26 | |||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 13 | standard electric | 49 ft | 152 ft | $35 | |||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 14 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 92 ft | $26 | |||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 15 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 53 ft | $26 | |||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 16 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 36 ft | $26 | |||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 17 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 34 ft | $26 | |||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 18 | standard electric | yes | 54 ft | 178 ft | $35 | ||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 19 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 88 ft | $26 | |||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 20 | standard electric | 54 ft | 224 ft | $35 | |||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 21 | standard nonelectric | 92 ft | 189 ft | $26 | |||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 22 | standard electric | 57 ft | 304 ft | $35 | |||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 23 | standard electric | 104 ft | 366 ft | $35 | |||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 24 | standard electric | 57 ft | 290 ft | $35 | |||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 25 | standard electric | 77 ft | 214 ft | $35 | |||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 26 | standard electric | 70 ft | 182 ft | $35 | |||
| Lonesomehurst Campground | 27 | standard electric | 30 amp | 109 ft | 278 ft | $35 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 27 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Basin Station CabinGallatin National Forest · 1.8 mi
Cherry Creek CampgroundGallatin National Forest · 1.9 mi
Rainbow Point CampgroundGallatin National Forest · 3.9 mi
Spring Creek CampgroundGallatin National Forest · 4.0 mi
Baker's Hole CampgroundGallatin National Forest · 6.7 mi
Bakers Hole (MT)Gallatin National Forest · 8.1 miFrom West Yellowstone, travel west on Highway 20 for eight miles, then continue four miles north on Hebgen Lake Road (Denny Creek Road).
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Hebgen Lake Estates, MT
Typical weather
Typical May night 32°F, day 58°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 32°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Lonesomehurst 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 →