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Freezout Lake WMA

Drive-up · Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks · MT · 47.65923, -112.03784

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Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks lists this site. Someone from the agency inventoried it, so it is a real camp — not a spot we guessed at. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.

Freezout Lake Wildlife Management Area, managed by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (11,333 acres), FWP Region 4. FWP's own site record lists a designated primitive campsite here and its fee table shows no camping fee. IMPORTANT -- THIS IS NOT FREE LAND, even though the camping itself costs nothing: Montana requires a Conservation License of every person aged 12 and older to use an FWP wildlife management area FOR ANY REASON, not just to hunt or fish. It is $8/year for residents, $10/year for nonresidents ($4 for resident youth 12-17 and seniors 62+). Buy it before you arrive. There is no separate per-night camping fee. Camping is allowed only in areas FWP has designated or marked for it (ARM 12.12.107), for no more than 7 nights in any 30-day period statewide. Primitive: pack in / pack out, no hookups and no drinking water; there is a vault toilet. Quiet hours are 10 p.m.-7 a.m. and certified weed-free feed is required for stock. We have not visited this site. Confirm the current season dates, the travel plan map and whether camping is still allowed with FWP Region 4 at (406)467-2488 before you go.

USGS topo — contours & terrain

USGS topographic map of Freezout Lake WMA

Aerial — USGS / NAIP

Weather outlook — at Freezout Lake WMA

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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,773 ft.

Fire & smoke — around Freezout Lake WMANIFC · 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 Freezout Lake WMA · Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks · MT

Straight-line miles · bearings approx · roads run longer

Nearest of each

FFuel4 mi
GGrocery4 mi
RxPharmacy4 mi
MMechanic4 mi
@Mail4 mi
HHardware4 mi
OOutfitter12 mi
LLaundry13 mi
+Urgent care13 mi
WWater23 mi
EVEV fast charger35 mi

≤30 mi30–4545+water

The read: water is a real 23-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 4 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 35-mi run (and back).

Not within 60 mi: Dump, 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 — Freezout Lake WMA

Access

Drive-up

Land

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks

Elevation

3,773 ft

State

Coordinates

47.65923, -112.03784

Cost

Free

Nearby & resupply — around Freezout Lake WMA · Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks · MT (OpenStreetMap)

Nearest townFairfield · ~4.0 mi
Drinking waternone within 10 mi
FuelCenex · ~4.0 mi
Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
GroceriesMountain View CO-OP · ~4.0 mi
PharmacyBarrett Drug · ~4.0 mi
Hospital / clinicAlluvion Health · ~12.6 mi
HardwareTrue Value Hardware · ~4.2 mi

EV charging — from Freezout Lake WMA · Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks · MT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)

Nearest public DC fast charger34.8 mi straight-line E — Great Falls, MT - Tesla Supercharger (at a hotel) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 2 within 50 · 7 within 100 · 37 within 150
Nearest listing CCS36.3 mi — Great Falls Subaru, Great Falls
Nearest listing CHAdeMO36.3 mi — Great Falls Subaru, Great Falls
Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)13.0 mi — Old Trail Museum Parking Lot, Choteau, MT · CHARGELAB · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed
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 163998 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center

Nearby restrooms — around Freezout Lake WMA · Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks · MT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)

Vault / pit toiletLowry Bridge Rec Site - Vault Toilet · ~10.2 mi S · BLM
Highway rest areaTeton SB · ~23.1 mi NE
Highway rest areaTeton NB · ~23.3 mi NE

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Other camps near Freezout Lake WMA

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Road 3307-03~22.3 mi

How we know this — Freezout Lake WMA

Stay limit

7 nights (Stay limit 7 nights)

Source

Montana FWP (wildlife management areas)

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

Montana FWP WMA. Camping flag: fwpLands WMA Locations layer (fwp-gis.mt.gov/arcgis/rest/services/fwplnd/fwpLands/MapServer/7), CAMPING='Yes'. Designated campsite independently confirmed by the Facilities list on FWP's own site page myfwp.mt.gov/fwpPub/landsMgmt/siteDetail.action?lmsId=39753634 ('Pack in/Pack out Picnic Table Primitive Campsite Toilet (Vault) Unsheltered'). No camping fee: that page's structured `sitefees` table lists only Conservation License rows -- no 'FAS Camping' row (which is $12/$18 per the 2025 FAS Annual Rule where it applies). Conservation License required for any use of an FWP WMA per FWP's conservation-license page and the 2026 Fishing Regulations ('for any reason'). Stay limit 7 nights/30 days per ARM 12.12.107. Coordinates cross-checked between two independent FWP channels -- GIS geometry and the detail page's stated Latitude/Longitude -- agreeing to 0.0009 mi. Open season per FWP: Jan 1 to Dec 31. Nightshift ingest 2026-07-20 21:28:38. WATER (fire 1740, batch 3, tier F): https://myfwp.mt.gov/fwpPub/landsMgmt/siteDetail.action?lmsId=39753634 -- Montana FWP's own site record for this WMA itemises its Facilities as "Pack in/Pack out / Picnic Table / Primitive Campsite / Toilet (Vault) / Unsheltered". Absence is read as no drinking water because FWP's Facilities vocabulary does carry water items and does use them: "Drinking Water" / "Water (Pump)" / "Water (Pressurized)" appear on 10 of the 23 FWP state-park pages read this fire through the same widget. This is a single-channel value -- FWP publishes no second per-site water channel, and no field visit backs it.

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 Freezout Lake WMA

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
Seasonal & winter access
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 — Freezout Lake WMA

Camping near a reservoir →Water on public land →Dumping grey & black →Reading your camp page →All field notes →

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