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Galena Gulch Campground
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · MT · 46.25439, -112.18384
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
What the record says about the site — Galena Gulch Campground · Bureau of Land Management · MT
- Room for 12 parties
- Tent camping
- Trailers and RVs fit
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Galena Gulch Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,076 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Galena Gulch 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 Galena Gulch Campground · Bureau of Land Management · MT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel3 mi
- GGrocery3 mi
- @Mail3 mi
- WWater17 mi
- LLaundry24 mi
- MMechanic24 mi
- HHardware24 mi
- OOutfitter24 mi
- +Urgent care24 mi
- AAir-up24 mi
- RxPharmacy24 mi
- ShShower24 mi
- EVEV fast charger24 mi
- DDump25 mi
- PPropane54 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 3 mi out.
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 — Galena Gulch Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
5,076 ft
Ground slope
12.8% · noticeable
Nearest highway
~0.1 mi · Interstate 15
State
MT
Coordinates
46.25439, -112.18384
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Galena Gulch Campground · Bureau of Land Management · MT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureBoulder River · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townFuller · ~1.1 mi
- Nearest rail linenone mapped within 10 mi
- Nearest highway~0.1 mi · Interstate 15
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelTown Pump · ~3.2 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesTown Pump · ~3.3 mi
- PharmacyBergum Drug · ~24.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicMegan M. Gittings · ~24.0 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~24.2 mi
EV charging — from Galena Gulch Campground · Bureau of Land Management · MT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger24.4 mi straight-line SW — Butte, MT - Tesla Supercharger (at a hotel) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 6 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 · 8 within 50 · 24 within 100 · 34 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS25.6 mi — L146 DC1, Helena
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO25.6 mi — L146 DC1, Helena
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)24.0 mi — Jackson Street Parking Garage, Helena, MT (at a parking garage) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-04-14 · hours: 24 hours daily
- 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 102263 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Galena Gulch Campground · Bureau of Land Management · MT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletGalena Gulch Recreation Site - East Vault Toilet · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletGalena Gulch Recreation Site - West Vault Toilet · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletElder Creek Picnic Area · ~5.1 mi S · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletCromwell Dixon Campground · ~5.4 mi N · USFS
Coming out here — Galena Gulch Campground · Bureau of Land Management · MT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Boulder River as a perennial river, 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.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 12.8% — noticeable. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (10 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.
- No rail line is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) — abandoned, lifted and out-of-service track excluded, so a rail-trail does not count as one.
- Interstate 15 is mapped ~0.1 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.
- 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 Galena Gulch Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Galena Gulch Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- North Galena Rd-018~1.8 mi
- North Galena Rd-019~2.1 mi
- USFS dispersed camp — MT #301~2.4 mi
- Galena Ridge 8668-025~3.0 mi
The unit that manages Galena Gulch Campground
Galena Gulch Campground is in the Butte Field Office, Western Montana District, Bureau of Land Management. Stay limits, permits, road closures and fire restrictions are set there, not at the campsite — check before you go. Its page maps every camp in it.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Rocker Peak at 7,960 ft, about 8 miles away. It sits about 2,884 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 — Galena Gulch Campground
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
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
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
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 Galena Gulch 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
- 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 — Galena Gulch Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Dumping grey & black →Off-grid communication →All field notes →