Red Cliff Campground
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $26–$35Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 60All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Red Cliff Campground is located in the scenic Gallatin Canyon, on the Bozeman Ranger District of the Gallatin National Forest, in Montana. Bozeman is 46 miles north of the campground and West Yellowstone is 45 miles south. The campground is adjacent to the Gallatin River and Highway 191. The surrounding area offers many outdoor recreational opportunities, including fishing, rafting, hiking and viewing local wildlife. Keep reading
Recreation
Great opportunities for hiking, fishing, scenic driving and wildlife viewing are available around the campground. Anglers cast for rainbow, brown, brook and cutthroat trout, whitefish and Arctic grayling on the Gallatin River. Rafting and kayaking are popular activities as well. The Elkhorn Creek Trail, for hiking and horseback riding, begins at the south end of the campground.
Facilities
The campground offers single-family campsites, with and without electric hookups. Several sites are also accessible. A day-use group picnic area is available on-site as well, and can accommodate up to 60 people. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Roads and parking spurs within the campground are gravel.
Natural Features
The campground sits next to the Gallatin River, at an elevation of 6,200 feet. Most campsites are situated among scattered pine and fir trees. Some sites are located in open meadows further from the river. A variety of wildlife makes its home in this scenic canyon. Visitors can often glimpse 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.
Nearby Attractions
The west entrance to Yellowstone National Park is located 45 miles south of the campground, in the town of West Yellowstone. Visitors enjoy day trips to the park for unparalleled wildlife viewing, beautiful scenery and unique geologic features. The Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center in the town of West Yellowstone is a popular attraction. It showcases live grizzly bears, gray wolves and various birds of prey, and has a variety of exhibits and educational programs.
What the agency tells you
Water is now available. The water pump has been replaced. 6/22/2026
Bears frequent the area; all food must be stored in approved containers and secured when campsite is unoccupied.
No RV Dump Station is located in any of the USFS campgrounds managed by ExplorUS in the Custer-Gallatin National Forest.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
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.
Firewood is available for sale at host site for $10.00/bundle.
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
- 60
- Hookups
- 25 electric
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 46 of 60 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and can accommodate up to 60 people. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Roads and parking…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…up to 60 people. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Roads and parking spurs within the…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek, Meadow
- Backpacking
- Berry Picking
- Birding
- Fishing
- Hiking
- 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.
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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 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
62 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 60 mapped sitesAll 62 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. 60 of the 62 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| REDC | 001 Host | host pad | 30 amp | 308 ft | ||
| REDC | 002 | standard electric | 30 amp | 88 ft | 269 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 003 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 98 ft | 165 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 004 | standard electric | 30 amp | 81 ft | 247 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 005 | standard electric | 30 amp | 98 ft | 131 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 006 | standard electric | 30 amp | 81 ft | 233 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 007 | standard electric | 30 amp | 90 ft | 111 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 008 | standard electric | 30 amp | 83 ft | 224 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 009 | standard electric | 30 amp | 90 ft | 105 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 010 | standard electric | 30 amp | 76 ft | 60 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 011 | standard electric | 30 amp | 96 ft | 228 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 012 | standard electric | 30 amp | 76 ft | 53 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 013 | standard electric | 30 amp | 96 ft | 215 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 014 | standard electric | 30 amp | 102 ft | 92 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 015 | standard electric | 30 amp | 96 ft | 261 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 016 | standard electric | 30 amp | 102 ft | 124 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 017 | standard electric | 30 amp | 101 ft | 296 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 018 | standard electric | 30 amp | 110 ft | 328 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 019 | standard electric | 30 amp | 106 ft | 146 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 020 | standard electric | 30 amp | 110 ft | 306 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 021 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 113 ft | 152 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 022 | standard electric | 30 amp | 113 ft | 285 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 023 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 113 ft | 132 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 024 | standard electric | 30 amp | 145 ft | 117 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 025 | standard electric | 30 amp | 145 ft | 89 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 026 | standard electric | 30 amp | 130 ft | 253 ft | $35 |
| REDC | 027 Host | host pad | $26 | |||
| REDC | 028 | standard nonelectric | 102 ft | 259 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 029 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 260 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 030 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 186 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 031 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 257 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 032 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 178 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 033 | standard nonelectric | 81 ft | 246 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 034 | standard nonelectric | 81 ft | 166 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 036 | standard nonelectric | 106 ft | 155 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 037 | standard nonelectric | 111 ft | 122 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 038 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 286 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 039 | standard nonelectric | 110 ft | 297 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 040 | standard nonelectric | 97 ft | 401 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 041 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 365 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 042 | standard nonelectric | 97 ft | 461 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 043 | standard nonelectric | 101 ft | 528 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 044 | standard nonelectric | 106 ft | 557 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 045 | standard nonelectric | 94 ft | 421 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 046 | standard nonelectric | 96 ft | 506 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 047 | standard nonelectric | 94 ft | 355 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 048 | standard nonelectric | 96 ft | 443 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 049 | standard nonelectric | 84 ft | 349 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 050 | standard nonelectric | 112 ft | 281 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 051 | standard nonelectric | 84 ft | 284 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 052 | standard nonelectric | 91 ft | 140 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 053 | standard nonelectric | 76 ft | 73 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 054 | standard nonelectric | 76 ft | 66 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 055 | standard nonelectric | 96 ft | 63 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 056 | standard nonelectric | 96 ft | 157 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 057 | standard nonelectric | 127 ft | 50 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 058 | standard nonelectric | 105 ft | 165 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 059 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 69 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 060 | standard nonelectric | 110 ft | 167 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 061 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 68 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 062 | standard nonelectric | 104 ft | 186 ft | $26 | |
| REDC | 063 | standard nonelectric | 102 ft | 73 ft | $26 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It names them host pads. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 62 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Eldridge Guard StationGallatin National Forest · 8.0 mi
Yellow Mule CabinGallatin National Forest · 8.6 mi
Tom Miner CampgroundGallatin National Forest · 9.3 mi
Windy Pass CabinGallatin National Forest · 9.3 mi
Wapiti CabinGallatin National Forest · 9.5 mi
Moose Creek Flat CampgroundGallatin National Forest · 11 miFrom Bozeman, travel south on Highway 191 for 46 miles to the campground. From West Yellowstone, take Highway 191 north for 45 miles.
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
Red Cliff 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 →