Agency-listedUSFSFreeOpen todayRoad season: open (MVUM)
Clearwater Crossing Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · MT · 46.90976, -114.80203
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this site. On most of their ground you can camp away from developed sites pretty much anywhere — so treat this as a known-good spot, not the only one allowed. The unit sets stay limits and how far off road and water you must be. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Can I go now? — Clearwater Crossing Campground · Lolo National Forest · MT
Open today Year-round per the agency record. Snow or weather can close the road.
U.S. Forest Service record: “Open year-round, snow dependent.” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-27; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Clearwater Crossing Campground · Lolo National Forest · MT
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 18194 (Clearwater Crossing Cg), 10 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 2 – high-clearance vehicles.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 18194 (Clearwater Crossing Cg), 10 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 18194 (Clearwater Crossing Cg): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-27; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
From the Forest Service's own Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW, Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026), straight-line from the pin to the nearest mapped segment. The nearest segment is not necessarily the way in, a maintenance level is the agency's class and not a report on today, and a road's season is the road's — it is not a campground order. What the levels mean → What an MVUM is →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Clearwater Crossing Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,473 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Clearwater Crossing CampgroundNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Clearwater Crossing Campground · Lolo National Forest · MT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- DDump12 mi
- @Mail16 mi
- FFuel16 mi
- GGrocery16 mi
- EVEV fast charger20 mi
- RxPharmacy20 mi
- WWater22 mi
- LLaundry28 mi
- ShShower31 mi
- MMechanic32 mi
- HHardware35 mi
- +Urgent care35 mi
- OOutfitter36 mi
- AAir-up38 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 22-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 16 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Propane. Plan those before you head up.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Clearwater Crossing Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
3,473 ft
Ground slope
2.7% · flat
Nearest rail line
~7.1 mi · passing siding
Nearest highway
~8.0 mi · Interstate 90
State
MT
Coordinates
46.90976, -114.80203
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Clearwater Crossing Campground · Lolo National Forest · MT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureFish Creek · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Also mapped (OSM)West Fork Fish Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townTarkio · ~8.3 mi
- Nearest rail line~7.1 mi · passing siding
- Nearest highway~8.0 mi · Interstate 90
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- Fuelnone within 30 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~11.8 mi
- GroceriesBroncs Grocery · ~28.0 mi
- PharmacyMineral Pharmacy · ~20.1 mi
- Hospital / clinicMineral Community Hospital · ~19.4 mi
- Mapping is thin out hereAn empty row means nothing is mapped within that radius — not that nothing exists. Small stores, seasonal resorts and single fuel pumps out here often never make it onto the map. Treat these as unconfirmed and ask locally.
EV charging — from Clearwater Crossing Campground · Lolo National Forest · MT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger19.9 mi straight-line N — Superior, MT - Tesla Supercharger (at a gas station) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 10 within 50 · 21 within 100 · 84 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS30.2 mi — St. Regis, MT, St. Regis
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO36.0 mi — Walmart 3259 (Missoula, MT), Missoula
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)27.8 mi — Lochsa Lodge, Powell, ID (at a hotel) · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2024-08-15 · hours: 8am-9pm daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Alpine Falls Ranch - Tesla Destination, Superior, 23.3 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 102264 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Clearwater Crossing Campground · Lolo National Forest · MT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletClearwater Crossing Campground · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletClearwater Crossing Trailhead · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSchley Trailhead · ~6.7 mi S · USFS
- Highway rest areaQuartz Flats WB · ~11.5 mi N
Coming out here — Clearwater Crossing Campground · Lolo National Forest · MT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Fish Creek as a perennial stream, ~0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 2.7% — flat. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (1 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- The game's day in this forest These lines are for the whole Lolo National Forest, not for this camp's own spot: a fire restriction is posted by county, and a forecast is for one point in the forest. A camp's own night can differ from that point, most in the mountains. Read when this page loads from the same daily files the game uses; every line says where it came from and when it was read.
- This camp's own spot: sun and fire record Worked out for this camp's recorded point from federal records, not for the whole forest. Every line says where it came from and when.
Sun behind the west ridge: (USGS 3DEP elevation, bare ground, 30-meter steps, finer close to camp; trees not counted; worked out October 15, 2026 for the 15th of each month, in this forest's clock; nobody has stood on it for this.)
Fire history: Inside the 2015 West Fork Fish Creek fire perimeter (13,351 acres), by the national fire history record. (NIFC InterAgency Fire Perimeter History, read October 15, 2026. This says where the record draws the line at this camp's recorded point, not what the ground here is like.)
- Rail line mapped ~7.1 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a passing siding. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- Interstate 90 is mapped ~8.0 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- Practice a first night on real ground in Dispersed 3D, free in the browser. The game's ground is Montana's Lolo, Custer Gallatin and Beaverhead-Deerlodge forests and the Arizona desert at Quartzsite; this camp is not in it.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
Open Clearwater Crossing Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Clearwater Crossing Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- West Fork Fish A~2.7 mi
- West Fork Fish B~2.9 mi
- Surveyor Creek~6.6 mi
- Fish Lake Camp~8.0 mi
The unit that manages Clearwater Crossing Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Clearwater Crossing Campground are set by Lolo National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Hoodoo Basin at 6,060 ft, about 12 miles away. It sits about 2,587 ft higher than this camp, so treat it as a guide rather than a reading for this spot. We do not repeat a depth here, because any number we stored would be stale by the time you read it — the station publishes today's.
How we know this — Clearwater Crossing Campground
Open season
Open year-round, snow dependent.
Source
U.S. Forest Service recreation data
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
How it was placed
Free but developed (not dispersed) - review || Water: Lolo National Forest's own site page for Clearwater Crossing Campground, https://www.fs.usda.gov/r01/lolo/recreation/clearwater-crossing-campground (read 2026-08-24; page "Last updated" April 16, 2026), "Facility and Amenity Information > Water": "Potable water is not available at this site.". Corroborated by the USFS EDW Recreation Sites layer (apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/EDW/EDW_RecInfraRecreationSites_02/MapServer/0, queried 2026-08-24), WATER_AVAILABILITY = "No potable water". Page "Seasons of Use": "Open year-round, snow dependent." -- that is the season of the SITE, not a statement about when the water is turned on. Channels agree; nightshift fire 1660.
Season
Read from the agency's own season / closure text in this record (data/conditions.py) and checked against the calendar. The words we read are printed under the verdict at the top of the page.
Nearest MVUM road
US Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW_MVUM_01, layer 1), Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026. Straight-line distance from the pin to the nearest mapped segment within 1 mi; surface type, maintenance level and open dates are the agency's own values for that segment, expanded from its codes and otherwise unedited. Nothing here says which road reaches the site.
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Clearwater Crossing Campground
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Whether that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Clearwater Crossing Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Power off-grid →All field notes →