West End Tent and Trailer Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15–$25Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 3320 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Reservations are only allowed on the day of arrival. Overnight occupany is required. Booking a campsite and not arriving will result in a No-Show per the rules and regulations. This location is not staffed by gate attendants. Check in/out with the camphost or via text. West End Tent and Trailer was historically a first come first serve campground. We have mirrored this with the ability to claim your campsite with an online reservation. You can only claim a campsite today for up to 14 nights from today. No advanced reservations are allowed. Keep reading
West End Tent and Trailer Campground is nestled on a hill on the north shore of Fort Peck Lake. The campground features 13 campsites with electrical hook-ups as well as an overflow section. West End Tent and Trailer tends to be quieter than our main campground and is popular with fishermen thanks to its proximity to a few boat ramps. Fort Peck Dam, which impounds Fort Peck Lake is the first dam built in the upper Missouri River Basin. The area surrounding Fort Peck was first charted by Lewis and Clark in 1804, and the pristine natural condition of the river and surrounding area awed the renowned explorers. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the Fort Peck project in 1933, thousands of people from all over the country migrated to Montana during the midst of the Great Depression in hopes of earning a living. Today, Fort Peck Lake is a sportsman's paradise with excellent fishing, wildlife viewing and other countless outdoor recreation opportunities.
Recreation
Fort Peck Lake provides almost 400 square miles of recreation opportunities. These include boating, fishing, canoeing, kayaking, and swimming. There are two boat ramps located within two miles of the campground to provide access. The Beaver Creek Nature Area is five miles away and provide three miles of trails to hike and bike on. Fishing: Fort Peck Lake enjoys nationwide recognition as a hot spot for walleye fishing. Fort Peck Lake provides excellent boating and fishing opportunities. The lake also offers excellent fishing for sauger, smallmouth bass, lake trout, chinook salmon and northern pike. The introduction of cisco as a forage fish in 1983 proved successful and has increased both the size and number of game fish. Wildlife Viewing/Hunting: The Fort Peck Lake Area and the Charles M. Russell Wildlife Refuge provide superb hunting of deer, elk, big horn sheep, and prong horn. The Missouri River Breaks are known for producing large elk and other game animals.
Facilities
Each of the 13 designated campsites has electrical hookups available as well as a picnic table and fire ring. Some of the overflow campsites have picnic tables and fire rings. Shower facilities with flush toilets are found within the campground as well as a vault toilet. There are water spigots available throughout the campground and a dump station is located approximately 5 miles away near the Downstream Campground.
Natural Features
The campground is located on a hill overlooking Fort Peck Lake. Most campsites provide at least a partial view of the lake. It is not uncommon to see deer visit the campground in the evening. The location provides a great view of thunderstorms as they pass over the lake from the safety of a camper. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (406) 526-3411.
Nearby Attractions
Fort Peck Lake is a Montana treasure for its vast size and outdoor recreation opportunities. Six recreation areas within a few miles of the dam provide access for water sports, fishing and hunting. The Fort Peck Interpretive Center and Museum is located just downstream of Fort Peck Dam. For more information, call 406-526-3411. Tours of the Fort Peck Powerhouse are regulalry scheduled, call 406-526-3411 for more information. The Leo B. Coleman Wildlife Pasture , located just outside the Town of Fort Peck and Downstream Campground is home to Fort Peck's Bison herd and provides an excellent wildlife viewing auto route. The Historic Fort Peck Theater is located in the town of Ft. Peck is a popular historic destination in summer months. The 1.1 million acre Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge surrounds Fort Peck Lake and helps preserve the natural habitat for numerous wildlife species.
Charges & Cancellations
Reservation changes and cancellations can be made on Recreation.gov or by calling 1-877-444-6777. For more information on rules and policies regarding reservation cancellations and changes, please visit: https://www.recreation.gov/rules-reservation-policies .
What the agency tells you
Campsites must be occupied the day of arrival or they will be no-showed.
Campsites must be occupied nightly for the duration of the stay.
All public-use of Ft. Peck Project lands and waters is governed by Title 36 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) .
Everything else this campground posts · 1
STOP THE SPREAD OF INVASIVE SPECIES. Remove plants, seeds, animals, and mud from boots, gear, pets, and vehicles. Clean your gear before entering and leaving the recreation site. Stay on designated roads and trails, and follow local guidelines for firewood. CLEAN, DRAIN, DRY boats and any other recreational equipment that contacts water. Dispose of unwanted bait, worms, fish parts, or other organisms into the trash and not into the environment. For more information visit invasivespeciesinfo.gov
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 33
- Hookups
- 12 electric
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Paved pads
- 13 of 33
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Little
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 25 of 33 campsite records
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- SHOWERS on 25 of 33 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Night sky · 391st darkest of 501 in MT
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 20 of the 33 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 · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $15–$25 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.
“Reservation changes and cancellations can be made on Recreation.gov or by calling 1-877-444-6777. For more information on rules and policies regarding reservation cancellations and changes, please visit: https://www.recreation.gov/rules-reservation-policies.” · this campground’s own terms
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
33 sites
All 33 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. 20 of the 33 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| OLD Overflow | OLD Overflow 1 | type not stated | 45 ft | ||
| OLD Overflow | OLD Overflow 2 | type not stated | 45 ft | 30 amp | |
| Overflow | Connected Electric 1 | type not stated | 30 amp | ||
| Overflow | Connected Electric 2 | type not stated | 30 amp | ||
| Overflow | OF 1 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | $15 | |
| Overflow | OF 2 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | $15 | |
| Overflow | OF 3 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | $15 | |
| Overflow | OF 4 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | $15 | |
| Overflow | OF 5 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | $15 | |
| Overflow | OF 6 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | $15 | |
| Overflow | OF 7 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | $15 | |
| Overflow | OF 8 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | $15 | |
| Overflow | Overflow 1 1 | type not stated | |||
| Overflow | Overflow 1 2 | type not stated | |||
| Overflow | Overflow 1 3 | type not stated | |||
| Overflow | Overflow 1 4 | type not stated | |||
| Overflow | Overflow 1 5 | type not stated | |||
| Overflow | Overflow 1 6 | type not stated | |||
| Overflow | Overflow 1 7 | type not stated | |||
| Overflow | Overflow 1 8 | type not stated | |||
| West End Loop | 1 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | $25 |
| West End Loop | 10 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | $25 |
| West End Loop | 11 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | $25 |
| West End Loop | 12 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | $25 |
| West End Loop | 13 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | $25 |
| West End Loop | 2 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | $25 |
| West End Loop | 3 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | $25 |
| West End Loop | 4 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | $25 |
| West End Loop | 5 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | $25 |
| West End Loop | 6 | rv electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | $25 |
| West End Loop | 7 | rv electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | $25 |
| West End Loop | 8 | rv electric | 35 ft | 30 amp | $25 |
| West End Loop | 9 | type not stated | 30 amp |
25 of 33 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Perch Point 1 & 20.4 mi
Boomtown Shelter0.9 mi
Downstream (MT)3.3 mi
Kiwanis Park3.3 miPaulo ReservoirGlasgow Field Office · 21 mi- From Glasgow, MT, travel on Montana 42-S then Montana 24-S for 16 miles toward Fort Peck Dam. Turn right onto Duck Creek Rd travel 0.6 miles bearing right at the "Y". Campground will be on your left.
- From Nashua, MT, travel on Montana 117-S for 10 miles. Turn right onto Yellowstone Rd/MT-117-S travel 2.5 miles. Slight Right onto Montana 24-N travel .5 miles. Turn left onto Duck Creek Rd travel 0.6 miles bearing right at the "Y". Campground will be on your left.
- From Interstate 94, Glendive/Circle exit, take Montana 200-W for 76 miles to Montana 24-N. Turn right onto Montana 24-N travel 60 miles. Turn left onto Duck Creek Rd travel 0.6 miles bearing right at the "Y". Campground will be on your left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Fort Peck, MT
Typical weather
Typical October night 37°F, day 61°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 8°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
West End Tent and Trailer Campground is in Montana’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Troy Downing (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →