North Dickey Lake
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $16From, per site
- Sites
- 2524 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
North Dickey Lake Campground is a beautiful campground next to scenic Dickey Lake and several hiking and mountain biking trails. It's conveniently located off the main highway and provides a secluded location for outdoor enjoyment. A day use area is located at South Dickey Day use area, on the opposite side of the lake. Keep reading
Recreation
The adjacent lake provides ample opportunity for boating, fishing, swimming and water skiing. Anglers can expect a catch of kokanee salmon, kamloop and rainbow trout. A grassy beach is also available at South Dickey Day Use area, a popular swimming area on the lake. A variety of hiking trails begin in the area, including the accessible, half-mile Dickey Lake Overlook Trail, which is also open to mountain biking. It leads to a viewing platform with nice views of the lake. Another trail heads from the campground to Mt. Marston. Educational programs are offered throughout the summer. A general store, with fuel and groceries, is located about 3 miles to the north and a small restaurant and coffee shop are located about 2 miles to the west of the campground.
Facilities
The campground offers 24 sites for tent and RV camping, but only five (5) sites can be reserved. The rest are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Each site is equipped with a table and campfire ring with grill. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided, but utility hookups are not available. Parking surfaces are gravel. A dump station is available just north of Eureka on Highway 93, behind a gas station.
Natural Features
The campground is located in northwestern Montana on a hillside next to the 800-acre lake. It is nestled in a forest of larch and fir trees at an elevation of about 3,100 feet. In the spring and early summer, the sound of the loon can often be heard from the campground.
Nearby Attractions
The campground is 20 miles from the United States-Canadian border, and 65 miles from the entrance to Glacier National Park.
What the agency tells you
16 Day Stay limit
Check-in/out 2:00 pm
If your extra vehicle is at the site longer than 30 minutes, you will need to pay the $5 extra vehicle fee or move the vehicle to the Overflow Parking Area.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Non-reservable sites area first come-first serve. Saving site is prohibited.
Please cancel your reservation if you do not plan to use the campsite. Reservations may be forfeited, without refund, for failure to occupy campsite on first night and for absences exceeding 24 hours thereafter. Campsite will be made available to other campers at 2PM the following day, for the remainder of the reservation.
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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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 25
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Paved pads
- 1 of 25
- Accessible sites
- 5
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and campfire ring with grill. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided, but utility…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…with grill. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided, but utility hookups are not…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Store
- Nearby
- Stay limit
- 48 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 189th darkest of 501 in MT
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 24 of the 25 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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 · 13
What you actually pay
“If your extra vehicle is at the site longer than 30 minutes, you will need to pay the $5 extra vehicle fee or move the vehicle to the Overflow Parking Area.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $16 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
25 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 24 mapped sitesAll 25 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 24 of the 25 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 1 | type not stated | 40 ft | yes | 585 ft | ||
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 10 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 354 ft | $16 | |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 11 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 92 ft | 414 ft | $16 | |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 12 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 417 ft | $16 | |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 13 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 81 ft | 267 ft | $16 | |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 14 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 81 ft | 312 ft | $16 | |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 15 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 85 ft | 159 ft | $16 | |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 16 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 84 ft | 269 ft | $16 | |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 17 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 84 ft | 316 ft | $16 | |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 18 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 90 ft | 407 ft | $16 |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 19 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 79 ft | 480 ft | $16 |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 2 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 142 ft | 631 ft | $16 | |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 20 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 79 ft | 403 ft | $16 |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 21 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 123 ft | 394 ft | $16 |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 22 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 64 ft | 237 ft | $16 | |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 23 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 164 ft | 95 ft | $16 | |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 24 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 64 ft | 259 ft | $16 | |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 25 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 85 ft | 120 ft | $16 | |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 3 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 79 ft | 492 ft | $16 | |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 4 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 83 ft | 484 ft | $16 | |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 5 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 77 ft | 420 ft | $16 | |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 6 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 77 ft | 406 ft | $16 | |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 8 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 86 ft | 306 ft | $16 | |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE | 9 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 86 ft | 373 ft | $16 | |
| NORTH DICKEY LAKE-Camphost Site | 7 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 106 ft | 310 ft | $16 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
South Dickey LakeKootenai National Forest · 1.3 miGrave Creek CampgroundKootenai National Forest · 7.3 miUpper Stillwater Lake CampgroundFlathead National Forest · 11 miRed Meadow Lake CampgroundFlathead National Forest · 13 mi
Ninko CabinFlathead National Forest · 14 miFrom Eureka, travel south on Highway 93 for approximately 13 miles to Fortine. Continue south on Highway 93 for over a mile to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Trego, MT
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 55°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 17°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
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
North Dickey Lake 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 →