Agency-listedUSFSUnpriced · confirmRoad season: open (MVUM)
Holland Lake Campground Larch Loop
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · MT · 47.44504, -113.61753
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service 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.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Holland Lake Campground Larch Loop · Flathead National Forest · MT
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 44D (Holland Larch Loop), 160 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as crushed aggregate or gravel surface and maintenance level 3 – suitable for passenger cars.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 44D (Holland Larch Loop), 160 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 44D (Holland Larch Loop): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-27; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
From the Forest Service's own Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW, Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026), straight-line from the pin to the nearest mapped segment. The nearest segment is not necessarily the way in, a maintenance level is the agency's class and not a report on today, and a road's season is the road's — it is not a campground order. What the levels mean → What an MVUM is →
What the record says about the site — Holland Lake Campground Larch Loop · Flathead National Forest · MT
- Room for 40 parties
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 Holland Lake Campground Larch Loop
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4,050 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Holland Lake Campground Larch LoopNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
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 Holland Lake Campground Larch Loop · Flathead National Forest · MT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel10 mi
- GGrocery10 mi
- @Mail11 mi
- HHardware20 mi
- LLaundry20 mi
- ShShower20 mi
- +Urgent care20 mi
- MMechanic23 mi
- RxPharmacy23 mi
- DDump33 mi
- WWater34 mi
- EVEV fast charger42 mi
- OOutfitter42 mi
- AAir-up43 mi
- PPropane58 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 34-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 10 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 42-mi run (and back).
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 — Holland Lake Campground Larch Loop
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
4,050 ft
Ground slope
1.4% · flat
State
MT
Coordinates
47.44504, -113.61753
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Holland Lake Campground Larch Loop · Flathead National Forest · MT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureHolland Lake · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Also mapped (OSM)Owl Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townCondon · ~7.2 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelSinclair · ~10.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesMission Mountains Mercantile · ~10.5 mi
- PharmacySt. Ignatius Tribal Health Pharmacy · ~24.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicRonan Medical Clinic · ~23.5 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~23.1 mi
EV charging — from Holland Lake Campground Larch Loop · Flathead National Forest · MT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger41.5 mi straight-line SW — Missoula, 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 reachnone within 25 mi · 7 within 50 · 23 within 100 · 38 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS42.1 mi — CAMPBELL KIA MTKIA 1 ABB, Missoula
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO43.5 mi — Walmart 3259 (Missoula, MT), Missoula
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)27.7 mi — East Shore Smoke House - Tesla Destination, Polson, MT · Tesla Destination · J1772, NACS (Tesla) · 2 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 — Fox Lane Cottage, Polson, 33.5 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for guest use only · AFDC lists it “Free with room”
- 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 102266 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Holland Lake Campground Larch Loop · Flathead National Forest · MT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Flush restroomHolland Lake Campground · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletHolland Lake Day Use Area · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletHolland Lake Group Site · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletHolland Lake Boat · ~0.3 mi S · USFS
Coming out here — Holland Lake Campground Larch Loop · Flathead National Forest · MT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Holland Lake as a perennial lake or pond, ~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 1.4% — flat. 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 Holland Lake Campground Larch Loop elsewhere
Other camps near Holland Lake Campground Larch Loop
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Holland Lake Group Site~0.2 mi
- Owl Creek Packer Camp~0.5 mi
- Holland Lake Campground Bay Loop~0.6 mi
- USFS dispersed camp — MT #335~1.6 mi
The unit that manages Holland Lake Campground Larch Loop
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Holland Lake Campground Larch Loop 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 Kraft Creek at 4,770 ft, about 7 miles away. It sits about 720 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 — Holland Lake Campground Larch Loop
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.
Nearest MVUM road
US Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW_MVUM_01, layer 1), Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026. Straight-line distance from the pin to the nearest mapped segment within 1 mi; surface type, maintenance level and open dates are the agency's own values for that segment, expanded from its codes and otherwise unedited. Nothing here says which road reaches the site.
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 Holland Lake Campground Larch Loop
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.
- Whether that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- Whether the site itself closes on its own schedule — only the road's season is on record
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- 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 — Holland Lake Campground Larch Loop
Camping near a reservoir →Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Leave no trace →All field notes →