Rexford Bench
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $24–$48Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 53All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Rexford Bench Recreation Area is the most highly developed camp area within the Kootenai National Forest. Rexford Bench Campground has 54 sites, 30 are first come-first serve and 24 can be reserved. Kamloops Terrace has 20 sites and additional overflow parking. A high and low water boat ramp is available. A day use area with swimming beach completes this popular area. It is a popular destination for boating, fishing and swimming on Lake Koocanusa, and hiking in the surrounding forest. Beautiful sandstone formations can be viewed not far from the campground, and osprey and eagles can often be seen fishing in the reservoir. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing, boating and swimming are popular activities. Fishing derbies are held several times each year and anglers can expect a catch of kokanee salmon, whitefish and a variety of trout, among others. A variety of hiking trails begins in the campground, including a relatively short interpretive trail that loops around the campground, and the Hoodoo Trail, that leads to impressive sandstone formations that jut out from an inlet along the lake. The Hoodoos can also be seen via boat. Several paths lead from the campground to the adjacent beach, boat ramp and overflow parking area.
Facilities
The campground offers dozens of accessible, single-family sites for tent and RV camping. Some sites are available on a first-come, first-served basis. A large overflow parking area is available for boat trailers and RVs. Each site is equipped with a table and campfire ring with grill. Accessible flush toilets and drinking water are provided, but utility hookups are not available. Campground roads and campsite spurs are paved. A campground host is on-site.
Natural Features
The campground is located on an arm of Lake Koocanusa in northwest Montana near the Canadian border. The 46,500-acre reservoir has over 127 miles of shoreline and is formed by 422' Libby Dam on the Kootenai River, which stretches about 90 miles and into Canada. It is a large campground, situated in a ponderosa pine forest at an elevation of 2,470 feet. Osprey often fish around Libby Dam at sunset, making for enjoyable viewing opportunities. Bald eagles can be seen hunting kokanee in the river and lake during the fall. A variety of wildlife also makes its home in the area.
Nearby Attractions
The Kootenai River, below Libby Dam, is a blue ribbon fishery. Guided tours of the dam and powerhouse are offered at the visitor center throughout the summer. Visitors also enjoy driving the 100-mile loop around the reservoir. Several trails, including some that lead to scenic waterfalls, are located along the route.
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 · 5
Non-reservable sites are first come-first serve. Saving sites is prohibited.
Additional fees are charged for dump station use
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.
Click here for more information on the Kootenai National Forest https://www.fs.usda.gov/kootenai
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
- 53
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…and campfire ring with grill. Accessible flush toilets and drinking water are provided, but utility…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…with grill. Accessible flush toilets and drinking water are provided, but utility hookups are not…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 48 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Reservoir, Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Ranger programs
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 330th darkest of 501 in MT
- Bortle 2
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
“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 rates for this season, $24–$48 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
54 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 54 mapped sitesAll 54 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 54 of the 54 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. 53 of the 54 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Camping Loop A- REXFORD BENCH | 11 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 97 ft | 742 ft | 418 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH | 1 - Campground Host Site | host pad | 40 ft | 126 ft | 1,187 ft | 369 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH | 16 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 69 ft | 581 ft | 287 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH | 2 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 101 ft | 1,316 ft | 435 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping loop A | 23 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 73 ft | 539 ft | 141 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop a | 28 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 81 ft | 744 ft | 194 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 10 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 88 ft | 819 ft | 311 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 12 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 648 ft | 459 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 13 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 713 ft | 401 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 14 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 603 ft | 349 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 15 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 674 ft | 339 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 17 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 69 ft | 595 ft | 250 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 18 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 76 ft | 451 ft | 188 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 19 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 76 ft | 492 ft | 156 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 20 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 102 ft | 350 ft | 161 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 21 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 130 ft | 300 ft | 104 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 22 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 132 ft | 405 ft | 70 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 24 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 73 ft | 524 ft | 123 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 25 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 637 ft | 234 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 26 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 649 ft | 250 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 27 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 81 ft | 746 ft | 245 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 29 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 102 ft | 841 ft | 162 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 3 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 101 ft | 1,309 ft | 400 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 30 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 96 ft | 1,016 ft | 151 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 31 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 96 ft | 1,112 ft | 224 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 4 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 131 ft | 1,274 ft | 374 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 5 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 127 ft | 1,111 ft | 353 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 6 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 93 ft | 988 ft | 346 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 7 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 93 ft | 927 ft | 318 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 8 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 101 ft | 928 ft | 234 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop A | 9 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 88 ft | 851 ft | 335 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop b | 39 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 104 ft | 565 ft | 147 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop B | 32 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 97 ft | 1,147 ft | 233 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop B | 33 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 90 ft | 1,044 ft | 130 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop B | 34 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 78 ft | 791 ft | 147 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop B | 35 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 78 ft | 785 ft | 157 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop B | 36 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 78 ft | 711 ft | 97 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop B | 37 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 92 ft | 681 ft | 179 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop B | 38 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 101 ft | 582 ft | 215 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop B | 40 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 140 ft | 439 ft | 255 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop B | 41 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 120 ft | 451 ft | 317 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop B | 42 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 91 ft | 565 ft | 211 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop B | 43 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 91 ft | 634 ft | 124 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop B | 44 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 84 ft | 777 ft | 214 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop B | 45 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 93 ft | 804 ft | 388 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop B | 46 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 93 ft | 821 ft | 422 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop B | 47 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 115 ft | 934 ft | 327 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop B | 48 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 84 ft | 845 ft | 212 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop B | 49 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 115 ft | 911 ft | 219 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop B | 50 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 99 ft | 797 ft | 108 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop B | 51 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 113 ft | 956 ft | 165 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop B | 52 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 70 ft | 1,057 ft | 181 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop B | 53 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 39 ft | 1,126 ft | 247 ft | $24–$48 |
| REXFORD BENCH-Camping Loop B | 54 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 39 ft | 1,165 ft | 283 ft | $24–$48 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 54 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Webb Mtn. Lookout RentalKootenai National Forest · 10 miBig Therriault Lake CampgroundKootenai National Forest · 13 miGrave Creek CampgroundKootenai National Forest · 14 miFrom Eureka, travel west on Highway 93 for about a mile, then continue 6 miles south on Highway 37.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Rexford, MT
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 57°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 19°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Rexford Bench 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 →