Loon Lake Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 45 mi
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
The Loon Lake campground is approximately 20 miles northwest of Libby on raod 471. The campground has 4 sites (two with tent pads), tables and fire rings and able to accomodate up to a 20' rv. Cmpground roads and parking spurs are gravel and native material. Amenities include a vault toilet, an undeveloped acces for small boats.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and native material. Amenities include a vault toilet, an undeveloped acces for small boats.”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Boating
- Fishing
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.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
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Yaak River Campground (MT)Kootenai National Forest · 14 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sylvanite, MT
Typical weather
Typical October night 28°F, day 53°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 14°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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
Loon 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 →