U.S. Forest Service · Flathead National Forest · MT
Red Meadow Lake Campground
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
5,550 ftElevation
37 ftWater · Red Meadow Lake
19.6 miNW of Whitefish, MT
n/aTree cover · water-masked cell
Bortle 2Night sky · 150th darkest of 501 in MT
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
At an elevation of 5,500 feet, Red Meadow Campground has 6 campsites near Red Meadow Lake. Bring your own drinking water, a vault toilet is available. Red Meadow Lake Campsite Food Storage
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Lake. Bring your own drinking water, a vault toilet is available. Red Meadow Lake Campsite Food Storage”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “Bring your own drinking water, a vault toilet is available.”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Meadow
Source: Stated in the agency description
Phone before you drive
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.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
Ninko CabinFlathead National Forest · 7.3 mi
Hornet LookoutFlathead National Forest · 8.9 mi
Schnaus CabinFlathead National Forest · 11 miUpper Stillwater Lake CampgroundFlathead National Forest · 11 miTuchuck CampgroundFlathead National Forest · 12 miMoose Lake CampgroundFlathead National Forest · 12 mi
Ninko CabinFlathead National Forest · 7.3 miHornet LookoutFlathead National Forest · 8.9 miSchnaus CabinFlathead National Forest · 11 miUpper Stillwater Lake CampgroundFlathead National Forest · 11 miTuchuck CampgroundFlathead National Forest · 12 miMoose Lake CampgroundFlathead National Forest · 12 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Overnight37°Mostly Clear
Saturday49°Sunny5% rain
Saturday Night30°Partly Cloudy6% rain
Sunday44°Sunny
NWS forecast for Stryker, MT
Source: National Weather Service, MSO forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
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.
Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 9, 2026
Who answers for this land
Red Meadow 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Stryker, MT, 10.4 mi ENE (a census designated place). Straight line.