Stony Creek Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 18 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This campground is located 19 miles west of Philipsburg off the Rock Creek Road (Forest Road 102) and contains 11 sites. The area is known for its high, rugged and beautiful mountain scenery, as well as the variety of wildlife that makes its home there, including bighorn sheep, elk, moose, deer, mountain lions, and bears. Fishing is available in Rock Creek and Stony Creek and anglers may find plentiful brook, brown, and rainbow trout. Much of the stream is protected from bull or westslope cutthroat trout fishing to improve the fishery. Keep reading
It is illegal to target bull trout; if caught they must be released immediately with minimal handling. Big game hunting is possible in designated areas. Appropriate licensing is required to fish and hunt in Montana. Rock creek is a popular rafting and boating trip at appropriate water levels prior to July 1. A variety of hiking, mountain biking, ATV, and horseback riding trails as well as old roads climb into the steep drainages and canyons of the Bitterroot Range. Stony Lake trailhead is at the end of the road another 3 miles, and it is open to foot, horse, and bike travel. Guests also enjoy snowmobiling, cross country skiing, and snowshoeing in the area during the winter.
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
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.
Every line of the receipt · 5
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($15), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Philipsburg, MT
Typical weather
Typical October night 29°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 13°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
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Stony Creek 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 →