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U.S. Forest Service · Inventoried Roadless Area · Montana

Basin Creek Roadless Area

1 campground here, none of them walk-up.

1Campgrounds
5,990 ftElevation
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point queries at 1 of these 1 campgrounds

Where they are

1 of 1 mapped
Drawing the map
© OpenFreeMap · OpenStreetMap · Esri hillshade
Source: RIDB · NPS · USFS EDW · BLM, unified by CAMPANAC · Sep 8, 2026

The campgrounds · 1

1 campground
Basin Canyon Campground and Picnic AreaBasin Creek Roadless Area · MT5,990 ft
Source: RIDB · NPS · USFS EDW · BLM, unified by CAMPANAC · Sep 8, 2026

This land

measured from the nearest campground in the unit
Roadless
Basin Creek9,500 acres · 3 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Highlands20,044 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area

Camping here is a stake in what happens to it. More Than Just Parks tracks the threats and the comment windows.

Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026

Heads up

Wildfire
Bobcat Lakes fire · 35 mi from the nearest campground here · 10,895 acres · 66% contained
Wildfire
Anchor lake fire · 37 mi from the nearest campground here · 0 acres
Wildfire
Skull fire · 38 mi from the nearest campground here · 67 acres · 0% contained
Wildfire
Sand Creek fire · 43 mi from the nearest campground here · 35,509 acres · 36% contained
Source: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Sep 9, 2026

Who answers for this land

Basin Creek Roadless Area’s campgrounds sit in one congressional district. These members vote on the laws that decide what happens to this land.

Ryan Zinke, official portrait
Ryan Zinke (R)MT 1st · 1 campground · grade F
Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score
Unit: USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) land units
Source: campground records from RIDB, NPS, USFS EDW and BLM, unified by CAMPANAC, refreshed nightly