Agency-listedBLM · dispersedFree
Lower Blackfoot River Corridor
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · MT · 46.91975, -113.67246
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USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Lower Blackfoot River Corridor
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,419 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Lower Blackfoot River CorridorNIFC · 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 Lower Blackfoot River Corridor · 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
- @Mail4 mi
- FFuel5 mi
- GGrocery5 mi
- HHardware14 mi
- LLaundry15 mi
- OOutfitter15 mi
- WWater15 mi
- MMechanic15 mi
- +Urgent care15 mi
- DDump16 mi
- RxPharmacy16 mi
- AAir-up16 mi
- EVEV fast charger17 mi
- ShShower17 mi
- PPropane31 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 5 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 — Lower Blackfoot River Corridor
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
3,419 ft
Ground slope
1.1% · flat
Nearest rail line
~9.2 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~9.2 mi · US Hwy 12
State
MT
Coordinates
46.91975, -113.67246
Cost
Free · no fee, per the land manager's own page (blm.gov, read 2026-09-19)
Nearby & resupply — around Lower Blackfoot River Corridor · Bureau of Land Management · MT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureBlackfoot River · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townMcNamara · ~0.6 mi
- Nearest rail line~9.2 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~9.2 mi · US Hwy 12
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~4.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesStore · ~4.6 mi
- PharmacyMontana Compounding Pharmacy · ~15.6 mi
- Hospital / clinicPlanned Parenthood · ~15.5 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~15.1 mi
EV charging — from Lower Blackfoot River Corridor · Bureau of Land Management · MT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger17.0 mi straight-line W — 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 reach7 within 25 mi · 7 within 50 · 22 within 100 · 39 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS17.4 mi — Missoula Chevrolet, Missoula
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO17.5 mi — Walmart 3259 (Missoula, MT), Missoula
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)15.2 mi — UMONTANA UC #1, Missoula, MT · ChargePoint Network · 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 102266 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Lower Blackfoot River Corridor · Bureau of Land Management · MT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomDaigle'S Eddy Toilet · ~1.6 mi NE · BLM
- RestroomThibodeau Campground East Toilet · ~3.7 mi NE · BLM
- RestroomWhitaker Bridge Day Use Toilet · ~3.8 mi NE · BLM
- RestroomThibodeau Campground West Toilet · ~3.8 mi NE · BLM
Coming out here — Lower Blackfoot River Corridor · Bureau of Land Management · MT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Blackfoot 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 1.1% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~9.2 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.
- US Hwy 12 is mapped ~9.2 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.
- Assume no services at all. Most dispersed camping in a national forest has none: no tap, no power, no dump, often no toilet. Everything you need, you bring.
- 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 Lower Blackfoot River Corridor elsewhere
Other camps near Lower Blackfoot River Corridor
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- USFS dispersed camp — MT #119~8.8 mi
- USFS dispersed camp — MT #213~8.8 mi
- Site 99-28~9.2 mi
- Site 99-26~9.4 mi
Who holds the land at Lower Blackfoot River Corridor
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Missoula Field Office, manager on record: Bureau of Land Management (federal). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Stuart Mountain at 7,270 ft, about 13 miles away. It sits about 3,851 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 — Lower Blackfoot River Corridor
Fee note
No fee, per the BLM page, read 19 Sep 2026: "No Fees." https://www.blm.gov/visit/lower-blackfoot-river-corridor
Source
Bureau of Land Management 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
BLM RIDB record, agency-listed. Its fee field is empty -- no fee statement -- so the cost is unpriced (field read 2026-09-19). Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up). | No fee 2026-09-19: "No Fees." Source: https://www.blm.gov/visit/lower-blackfoot-river-corridor (worker_W, statement verified on that page).
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 Lower Blackfoot River Corridor
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 — Lower Blackfoot River Corridor
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Dumping grey & black →How to read this page →All field notes →