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Graves Creek Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · MT · 48.12761, -113.81145
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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.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Graves Creek Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,598 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Graves Creek 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 Graves Creek Campground · Flathead National Forest · MT
Straight-line miles · bearings approx · roads run longer
Nearest of each
- FFuel10 mi
- GGrocery10 mi
- HHardware13 mi
- LLaundry13 mi
- ShShower14 mi
- @Mail14 mi
- WWater18 mi
- MMechanic22 mi
- EVEV fast charger22 mi
- +Urgent care22 mi
- OOutfitter22 mi
- RxPharmacy24 mi
- DDump30 mi
- PPropane35 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 10 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 — Graves Creek Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
3,598 ft
State
MT
Coordinates
48.12761, -113.81145
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Graves Creek Campground · Flathead National Forest · MT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureGraves Creek (stream) · nearby
- Nearest townCanyon Creek Boat Landing · ~6.3 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelConoco · ~17.7 mi
- Propane / LPGAmeriGas · ~22.9 mi
- Dump station~30.1 mi
- GroceriesBigfork Harvest Foods · ~12.9 mi
- PharmacySmith's Drive Through Pharmacy · ~23.5 mi
- Hospital / clinicEvergreen Clinic · ~22.4 mi
- HardwareGlacer Ace Hardware · ~22.5 mi
EV charging — from Graves Creek Campground · Flathead National Forest · MT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger22.0 mi straight-line W — CLARK HYUNDAI SERVICECUSTOMER, Kalispell, MT · ChargePoint Network · CHAdeMO, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach3 within 25 mi · 8 within 50 · 18 within 100 · 33 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)25.0 mi — Kalispell, MT - Tesla Supercharger, Kalispell
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)22.6 mi — Wonderstone at Glacier - Tesla Destination, Columbia Falls, MT · Tesla Destination · J1772, NACS (Tesla) · 3 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-08-27 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to all vehicles.
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Mountain Lake Lodge, Bigfork, 14.1 mi · J1772 · hours: 8am-9pm daily; for guest use 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 227212 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Graves Creek Campground · Flathead National Forest · MT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletGraves Creek Campground · at this camp · USFS
- RestroomHandkerchief Lake Campground · ~1.1 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletDevils Corkscrew Campground · ~5.5 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletCanyon Creek Boat · ~6.3 mi N · USFS
Coming out here — Graves Creek Campground · Flathead National Forest · MT
- Surface water mapped nearby: Graves 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 Graves Creek Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Graves Creek Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Graves Creek Gate~0.4 mi
- Handkerchief Lake Campground~1.1 mi
- Trout Lake South~4.0 mi
- Crater_Lake_007~4.1 mi
The unit that manages Graves Creek Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Graves Creek Campground are set by Flathead National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Noisy Basin at 6,070 ft, about 7 miles away. It sits about 2,472 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 — Graves Creek Campground
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 2026-08-24 (nightshift fire 120): USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse Recreation Sites layer (apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/EDW/EDW_RecInfraRecreationSites_02/MapServer/0), extract cached locally as data\_mt_water_edw.json, objectid 2377516, site "GRAVES CREEK CAMPGROUND" (recreation area "Graves Creek Campground"), WATER_AVAILABILITY = "No drinking water is available". Matched to this camp on coordinates (0.0008 mi from the agency point). Agency record only -- not field-verified, and no natural water here is claimed to be potable.
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 Graves Creek 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 — Graves Creek Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Reading the aerial →All field notes →
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