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Pine Creek
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · MT · 45.49844, -110.52361
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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 — Pine Creek · Custer Gallatin National Forest · MT
No MVUM road within 1 mi of the pin; access may be a county road or unmapped.
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 →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Pine Creek
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,594 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Pine CreekNIFC · 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 Pine Creek · Custer Gallatin National Forest · MT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- OOutfitter10 mi
- FFuel10 mi
- GGrocery10 mi
- +Urgent care10 mi
- LLaundry10 mi
- RxPharmacy11 mi
- HHardware11 mi
- @Mail11 mi
- MMechanic11 mi
- ShShower14 mi
- EVEV fast charger26 mi
- WWater27 mi
- DDump53 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 27-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 10 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 — Pine Creek
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
5,594 ft
Ground slope
2.6% · flat
Nearest rail line
~9.9 mi · other track
State
MT
Coordinates
45.49844, -110.52361
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Pine Creek · Custer Gallatin National Forest · MT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurePine Creek · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townPine Creek · ~2.4 mi
- Nearest rail line~9.9 mi · other track
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~10.2 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesTown Pump · ~10.2 mi
- PharmacyWestern Drug · ~10.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicLivingston Health Care · ~10.2 mi
- HardwareAce · ~11.1 mi
EV charging — from Pine Creek · Custer Gallatin National Forest · MT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger26.0 mi straight-line NW — Audi of Bozeman · EV Connect · CHAdeMO, CCS · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 12 within 50 · 19 within 100 · 42 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)29.5 mi — Bozeman, MT, Bozeman
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)11.2 mi — LEWIS STREET STATION 1, Livingston, 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 168410 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Pine Creek · Custer Gallatin National Forest · MT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletPine Creek · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSuce Creek Th · ~5.2 mi N · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSuce Creek · ~5.3 mi N · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletWest Boulder · ~10.9 mi E · USFS
Coming out here — Pine Creek · Custer Gallatin National Forest · MT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Pine Creek as a perennial stream, ~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 2.6% — 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 ~9.9 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as other track. No track the atlas classes as a main line is mapped within 10 mi. 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.
Open Pine Creek elsewhere
Other camps near Pine Creek
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Livpk01~7.0 mi
- Livpk04~7.0 mi
- Missioncr01~8.8 mi
- Missioncr03~9.0 mi
The unit that manages Pine Creek
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Pine Creek are set by Custer Gallatin National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Pine Creek
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
Developed FEE campground (not free) - review | auto:usfs-fee 2026-08-20: US Forest Service developed campground, agency coordinates, agency states a fee. No dollar amount in the agency record -- expect a charge and confirm the current rate before you go. Not field-verified. || 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 2367892, site "PINE CREEK" (recreation area "PINE CREEK"), WATER_AVAILABILITY = "Yes, drinking water is available from a hand pump". 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. Agency site page: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/233929 | Fee 2026-08-24: the forest page prints two different single-site prices in the same fee block and this note is not going to pick one for you: 'Single Site: $20 (includes 2 driving vehicles)' with an 'Extra Vehicle Fee: $8 per additional vehicle' line, immediately followed by 'Single Site: $26 per night' with 'Additional Vehicle Fee: $9 per night'. recreation.gov -- the listing that page's own reservation button points at -- charges $26 per night for a standard non-electric site for the 2026 season (May 15 - Sep 26), with the group site at $75 and the group picnic area at $95. Budget $26. Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r01/custergallatin/recreation/pine-creek-campground and https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/233929.
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 Pine Creek
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 — Pine Creek
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Leave no trace →All field notes →