Owl Creek Corral
1Heads up1 fire 33 mi away
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:48 UTC
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Owl Creek Corral is located at the Owl Creek Packer Camp Trailhead. It is available to reserve for up to seven days. The maximum capacity is 12 head of stock. Metal hay bunks are provided as well as a metal water trough. Keep reading
Recreation
Visitors to the area enjoy hiking and horseback riding on a variety of trails, some of which lead into the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area. The corral is approximately a half-mile from Holland Lake, which offers swimming, boating, and fishing opportunities.
Facilities
The main corral is 65 ft. x 65 ft. It is a 5-railed, steel pipe corral with metal hay bunks as well as a metal water trough. There is a smaller area located behind the main corral measuring 42 ft. x 20 ft. where you could separate stock or keep hay.
Natural Features
The corral is located in the Swan Valley, just south of Holland Lake at an elevation of 4,200 feet. The corral backs up to a stand of mixed conifers, including lodgepole pine and Douglas fir trees.
Nearby Attractions
A general store is located about 20 minutes away (9 miles), in the town of Condon.
What the agency tells you
Drinking water is only available from May 20 to Nov. 15; outside this time frame, guests will need to bring their own water
Grizzly bears frequent the area; use appropriate containers for food and garbage
All hay and feed brought onto public lands must be certified weed free
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Contact the ranger district office at (406) 837-7500, during normal office hours (Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) for updates on weather and road conditions; refunds will not be given for inclement weather or road conditions.
Same-day reservations can be made by calling the Swan Lake Ranger Station during business hours at (406) 837-7500 and making a credit card payment
Commercial use of corral is prohibited
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 equestrian
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, 25 km away
- No change
1 of 1 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:48 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 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 · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 16:48 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 1 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Owl Creek Packer Camp Loop | Owl Creek Corral | equestrian nonelectric | 190 ft | 2,211 ft | $20 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Holland Lake CampgroundFlathead National Forest · 0.9 mi
Owl Creek CabinFlathead National Forest · 2.1 miLindbergh Lake CampgroundFlathead National Forest · 5.7 mi
Rainy Lake CampgroundLolo National Forest · 7.2 mi
Lake Alva CampgroundLolo National Forest · 8.0 miOwl Creek Corral is located at the Owl Creek Packer Camp, about 4 miles off Montana State Highway 83 in the Swan Valley. From Highway 83 turn east onto Holland Lake Road #44 near mile marker 35. After 2.5 miles, turn right on Owl Loop Road #9558. Go about 0.5 miles and turn right on Road #10121 to Owl Creek Packer Camp. The camp entrance is located on the right. Turn here and continue straight through the camp, turn left at the end and drive past the corrals. The corral for rent is the last corral near the end of this loop on the right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Condon, MT
Typical weather
Typical October night 32°F, day 52°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 16°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
Owl Creek Corral 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 →