Moose Creek Flat Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $26From, per site
- Sites
- 13All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Moose Creek Flat Campground is located in scenic Gallatin Canyon on the Bozeman Ranger District of the Gallatin National Forest, in Montana. It is 32 miles south of Bozeman. The surrounding area offers many outdoor recreational opportunities, including fishing, rafting, hiking and viewing local wildlife. Keep reading
Recreation
The surrounding area provides great opportunities for hiking, fishing, scenic driving and wildlife viewing. Anglers cast for rainbow, brown, brook and cutthroat trout, whitefish and Arctic grayling on the Gallatin River. An accessible fishing dock is located at the river's edge. Rafting and kayaking are popular activities as well. Many trails can be found in Gallatin Canyon. The Swan Creek Trail begins at nearby Swan Creek Campground. Golden Trout Lakes Trail begins about 15 minutes away up Portal Creek Road, three miles south of the campground.
Facilities
This fully accessible campground offers several single-family campsites, each equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring. A GROUP PICNIC AREA (SITE 14) for DAY USE ONLY equipped with 3 standard size picnic tables is also available and can accommodate up to 50 people. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Roads within the campground are paved, but the parking spurs are gravel.
Natural Features
The campground sits next to the Gallatin River near Moose Creek, just off Highway 191, at an elevation of 5,700 feet. A forest of pine and fir trees covers the surrounding mountainsides, but the campground itself lies in an open meadow. A variety of wildlife makes its home in this scenic canyon. Visitors can often catch a glimpse of bald eagles, bighorn sheep, moose, elk, mountain goats, deer and coyotes. Black and grizzly bears also live in the canyon. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.
What the agency tells you
Bears frequent the area, all food must be stored in approved containers and secured when site is uoccupied.
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.
Firewood is available for sale nearby at Greek Creek CG Host Site for $10.00/bundle.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
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
- 13
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 14 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER (HAND PUMP) on 1 of 14 campsite records
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Meadow
- Birding
- Fishing
- Kayaking
- Rafting
- Stargazing
- Water access
- Wildlife viewing
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
14 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 13 mapped sitesAll 14 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. 13 of the 14 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 MOOSE CREEK FLAT CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 78 ft | $26 |
| AREA MOOSE CREEK FLAT CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 68 ft | $26 |
| AREA MOOSE CREEK FLAT CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 81 ft | $26 |
| AREA MOOSE CREEK FLAT CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 90 ft | $26 |
| AREA MOOSE CREEK FLAT CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | 98 ft | $26 |
| AREA MOOSE CREEK FLAT CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | 111 ft | $26 |
| AREA MOOSE CREEK FLAT CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 96 ft | $26 |
| AREA MOOSE CREEK FLAT CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 78 ft | $26 |
| AREA MOOSE CREEK FLAT CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 44 ft | $26 |
| AREA MOOSE CREEK FLAT CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 155 ft | 63 ft | $26 |
| AREA MOOSE CREEK FLAT CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 208 ft | $26 |
| AREA MOOSE CREEK FLAT CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 202 ft | $26 |
| AREA MOOSE CREEK FLAT CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 107 ft | 172 ft | $26 |
| AREA MOOSE CREEK FLAT CAMPGROUND | 014 Day Use | day use | 69 ft | $60 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Moose Creek Group SiteGallatin National Forest · 0.4 mi
Swan Creek CampgroundGallatin National Forest · 1.1 mi
Moose Creek Flat CampgroundGallatin National Forest · 1.7 mi
Greek Creek CampgroundGallatin National Forest · 1.7 mi
Garnet Mountain Fire LookoutGallatin National Forest · 5.1 mi
Spire Rock CampgroundGallatin National Forest · 5.8 miFrom Bozeman, take Highway 191 south for 32 miles. From West Yellowstone, take Highway 191 north 57 miles. The campground is on the west side of the highway.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Big Sky, 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
Moose Creek Flat 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 →