River Point Lolo Campground (MT)
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- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 2827 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
River Point Campground on the West shore of Seeley Lake is bordered by the Clearwater River to the North. Beach-front day-use picnic sites and a roped swimming beach are just a short walk away from the 27 RV/Tent sites. This includes 5 sites with river-front access. River Point is a popular campground and day-use area that sees heavy use all season. The campground is well known for its sweeping views of the eastern shoreline, area peaks, and the old growth Western Larch trees that tower over the valley. Keep reading
Recreation
The campground is popular for swimming, fishing, biking and paddling. There is no boat launch at this facility. A portion of the community trails network comes through the campground. The trails provide non-motorized access to town and nearby forest lands. The Clearwater Canoe Trailhead just North of Seeley Lake offers excellent flat water for viewing wildlife such as blue herons and river otters. The water trail is popular with canoeists and kayakers as it stretches 3.5 miles, or a couple of hours, down the river. The Morrell Falls National Recreation Trail on the East side of the valley offers an incredible day hike exploring recent burns, dense forests, and a large waterfall.
Facilities
The 27 individual RV/Tent sites are avaliable for reservation the Friday before Memorial Day to the Tuesday after Labor Day, when the campground gate closes for the season. Campsites are equipped with a picnic table, fire ring with grill, and a paved parking stall. Accessible vault toilets, drinking water and trash receptacles are available throughout the campground. Campground hosts are on site 24 hours a day. The campground is adjacent to a spacious day use beach with a roped-off swimming area and several picnic sites. Day use facilities are open year-round from 6:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m. Mountain Time. No fees or reservations are required for day use.
Natural Features
The campsites offer the chance to spend time with the old growth Western Larch trees. Many of these trees are over 500 years old and several feet in diameter. Just a short distance away is the Girard Grove, home of a Western Larch tree over 1000 years old and more than seven feet in diameter, known as “Gus”. The historic Camp Paxson can also be seen across the Clearwater River. Bald eagles and osprey dive for fish in the early morning and late evening.
Nearby Attractions
The town of Seeley Lake, MT on the southeastern tip of the lake offers a variety of recreation services such as boat, canoe, and kayak rentals as well as guide services and resorts. Services like gas, groceries, restaurants, and lodging can also be found in town. Access to a variety of forests, sweeping views, mountain lakes, and rugged peaks can be discovered just a short drive up any of the nearby Forest Service roads. Just a day trip away from Seeley Lake, Glacier National Park is known for a variety of opportunities to explore alpine landscapes, active glaciers, and view unique wildlife. Contact the park for current conditions. Missoula, one one of Western Montana’s outdoor recreation hubs is about an hour from Seeley Lake, MT. Missoula is a full-service city with 2 hospitals, an international airport, and access to services, hotels, and outdoor activities.
What the agency tells you
Notice: Beginning in 2024, check out time is at 1:00 p.m. Mountain Time. Check-in is at 3:00 p.m. Mountain Time. Please check-out on time so that attendents may prepare the campsite for the next guest.
Bears frequent the area; please store all food and attractants in a locked vehicle, or in a certified bear resistant container. Click here for more information.
Bear resistant trash and food containers must be closed and secured by users after depositing items. Failure to secure containers could result in a citation.
Everything else this campground posts · 8
Campfires must be completely extinguished before leaving campsite unattended.
Parking is allowed in the designated parking spur for each campsite only. Vehicles that do not fit will be charged an additional vehicle fee of $5.00 and must park in the day-use area. No parking along roadways.
Quiet hours are 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. This includes external and onboard gas-powered generators.
No utility hookups are avaliable.
Dogs must be leashed while in campgrounds.
Access to the campground in the early spring and late fall is closed, roads are not plowed, gate is closed.
Click here for more information on the Lolo 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 https://www.dontmovefirewood.org/.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 28
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 56 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and a paved parking stall. Accessible vault toilets, drinking water and trash receptacles are available…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…parking stall. Accessible vault toilets, drinking water and trash receptacles are available throughout the…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 32 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Lake, River, Beach
- Beachcombing
- Berry Picking
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Ice Fishing
- Jet Skiing
- Kayaking
- Motor Boat
- Mountain biking
- Paddle Boating
- Night sky · 390th darkest of 501 in MT
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 27 of the 28 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 · 17
What you actually pay
“Vehicles that do not fit must deposit an additional vehicle fee of $5.00 and must park in the day-use area.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
28 sites
All 28 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. 28 of the 28 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| River Point Campground | RPS01 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS02 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS03 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS04 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS05 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS06 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS07 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS08 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS09 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS10 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS11 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS12 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS13 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS14 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS15 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS16 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS17 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS18 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS19 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS20 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS21 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS22 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS23 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS24 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS25 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS26 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | $20 |
| River Point Campground | RPS27 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | $20 |
| S&P | Standard Campsite | type not stated | 43 ft | $20 |
25 of 28 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Seeley Lake Lolo Campground (MT)Lolo National Forest · 0.6 mi
Big Larch CampgroundLolo National Forest · 1.0 mi
Double Arrow LookoutLolo National Forest · 1.7 miHidden Lake CampgroundLolo National Forest · 4.0 mi
Lake Inez Point 6 (Group Camp Site)Lolo National Forest · 7.8 mi
Lakeside Campground8.9 mi- From I-90 take exit 109 for MT-200 E and travel for 32.3 mi. Turn left onto MT-83 N and travel 14.0 mi to Seeley Lake, MT. Turn left onto Boy Scout Rd and travel 2.1 mi. Turn right into the River Point Campground.
- From River Point Campground entry road take the 1st left on the paved road to the camping area. Travel through the open single lane gate and proceed to the one-way traffic camping loop.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Seeley Lake, MT
Typical weather
Typical October night 29°F, day 56°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 12°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
River Point Lolo Campground (MT) 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 →