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Jo Bonner Campground
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · MT · 46.64385, -111.68421
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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.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Jo Bonner Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,812 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Jo Bonner 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 Jo Bonner 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
- DDump9 mi
- GGrocery9 mi
- ShShower9 mi
- MMechanic11 mi
- FFuel11 mi
- @Mail11 mi
- HHardware13 mi
- +Urgent care14 mi
- RxPharmacy15 mi
- OOutfitter15 mi
- EVEV fast charger16 mi
- LLaundry16 mi
- WWater17 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 9 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: 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 — Jo Bonner Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
3,812 ft
Ground slope
5.5% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~7.4 mi · main line
State
MT
Coordinates
46.64385, -111.68421
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Jo Bonner Campground · Bureau of Land Management · MT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureCanyon Ferry Lake · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townCavetown · ~1.1 mi
- Nearest rail line~7.4 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~1.5 mi
- FuelFuel · ~11.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~9.1 mi
- GroceriesHeritage Food Store · ~11.3 mi
- PharmacyBergum Drug · ~15.3 mi
- Hospital / clinicFyre Aesthetics · ~14.8 mi
- HardwareTuff Shed · ~13.3 mi
EV charging — from Jo Bonner Campground · Bureau of Land Management · MT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger15.5 mi straight-line W — Helena, MT - Tesla Supercharger (at a grocery store) · 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 reach4 within 25 mi · 4 within 50 · 19 within 100 · 32 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS15.9 mi — L146 DC 2, Helena
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO15.9 mi — L146 DC 2, Helena
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)13.3 mi — Mountain View Park, Helena, MT · EVGATEWAY · J1772 · 4 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 163997 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Jo Bonner Campground · Bureau of Land Management · MT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletJoe Bonner - Single Vault Restroom Building · at this camp · BoR
- Vault / pit toiletJoe Bonner - Single Vault Restroom Building · at this camp · BoR
- Vault / pit toiletCave Bay Point - Precast Single Vault Restroom Building · ~0.9 mi W · BoR
- Vault / pit toiletChinaman Gulch Campground - Precast Vault Toilet Restroom Building · ~1.2 mi NW · BoR
Coming out here — Jo Bonner Campground · Bureau of Land Management · MT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Canyon Ferry 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 5.5% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~7.4 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.
- 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.
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- Magpie02A~3.3 mi
- Magpie03~4.1 mi
- West Big Belts Gfa - Hellgate Cua~4.1 mi
The unit that manages Jo Bonner Campground
Jo Bonner 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.
How we know this — Jo Bonner 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)
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 Jo Bonner 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 — Jo Bonner Campground
What “dispersed” means here →Cold-weather camping →Fire rules & restrictions →Leave no trace →All field notes →