Agency-listedBLMFree
Gilmore Cabin
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · MT · 47.86514, -109.01572
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management 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.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Gilmore Cabin
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,164 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Gilmore CabinNIFC · 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 Gilmore Cabin · 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
- @Mail17 mi
- DDump23 mi
- FFuel23 mi
- GGrocery25 mi
- ShShower46 mi
- MMechanic47 mi
- LLaundry47 mi
- +Urgent care51 mi
- HHardware51 mi
- RxPharmacy55 mi
- EVEV fast charger58 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: fuel & food sit about 23 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 58-mi run (and back).
Not within 60 mi: Water, 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 — Gilmore Cabin
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
3,164 ft
Ground slope
4.1% · gentle
State
MT
Coordinates
47.86514, -109.01572
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Gilmore Cabin · Bureau of Land Management · MT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureLittle Bullwhacker Creek · ~0.8 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Cow Creek (river) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townLeroy · ~14.0 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~23.2 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump stationRV Dump · ~22.7 mi
- GroceriesRed Paint Creek Trading Post · ~25.1 mi
EV charging — from Gilmore Cabin · Bureau of Land Management · MT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger58.5 mi straight-line NW — Tilleman Motors, Havre, MT · EVGATEWAY · CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · none within 50 · 1 within 100 · 9 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)111.2 mi — Great Falls, MT - Tesla Supercharger, Great Falls
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO108.8 mi — Great Falls Subaru, Great Falls
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)76.4 mi — Wolfe of Fort Benton · FLO · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · 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 349557 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Gilmore Cabin · Bureau of Land Management · MT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomGilmore Cabin Toilet Structure · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletGist Ranch Outhouse · ~4.2 mi S · BLM
- RestroomLower Woodhawk Toilet · ~9.0 mi S · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletMontana Gulch Vault Toilet 1 · ~17.9 mi E · BLM
Coming out here — Gilmore Cabin · Bureau of Land Management · MT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Little Bullwhacker Creek as an intermittent stream, ~0.8 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as intermittent — expect it dry for part of the year. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 4.1% — gentle. 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.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on 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.
Open Gilmore Cabin elsewhere
Other camps near Gilmore Cabin
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Campground Host~22.7 mi
- Little Rockies Recreation Management Area~22.9 mi
The unit that manages Gilmore Cabin
Gilmore Cabin is in the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, North Central 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.
How we know this — Gilmore Cabin
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)
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 Gilmore Cabin
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 — Gilmore Cabin
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Cold-weather camping →Camping with a dog →All field notes →