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Freezout Lake WMA
Drive-up · Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks · MT · 47.65923, -112.03784
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Ask about this camp →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
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
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and 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
Nearest rail line
~1.4 mi · main line
State
MT
Coordinates
47.65923, -112.03784
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Freezout Lake WMA · Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks · MT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureFreezeout Lake · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townFairfield · ~4.0 mi
- Nearest rail line~1.4 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 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
Coming out here — Freezout Lake WMA · Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks · MT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Freezeout Lake as a perennial lake or pond, under 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.
- Rail line mapped ~1.4 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. 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.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in it.
- 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.
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If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Road 3307-03~22.3 mi
Who holds the land at Freezout Lake WMA
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Freezout Lake Wildlife Management Area, manager on record: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, Region 4 (state). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
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 →