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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 2026-09-18; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
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
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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
Straight-line miles · bearings approx · 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
State
MT
Coordinates
46.90976, -114.80203
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Clearwater Crossing Campground · Lolo National Forest · MT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureWest Fork Fish Creek (stream) · nearby
- Nearest townTarkio · ~8.3 mi
- 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: West Fork Fish Creek (stream). That is wash water at best, and nobody has checked it for you — a creek can be dry and a tank can be mud. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- 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 — Dave gets service credit if you sign up through it. 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.
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.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- 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 →
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