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Price Creek Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · MT · 44.63660, -112.15717
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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 — Price Creek Campground · Beaverhead-Deerlodge 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 Price Creek Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,598 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Price 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 Price Creek Campground · Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest · MT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater17 mi
- FFuel21 mi
- GGrocery21 mi
- @Mail21 mi
- EVEV fast charger21 mi
- MMechanic41 mi
- DDump43 mi
- LLaundry47 mi
- HHardware52 mi
- ShShower52 mi
- RxPharmacy52 mi
- OOutfitter52 mi
- +Urgent care58 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 21 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 — Price Creek Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
6,598 ft
Ground slope
0.3% · flat
Nearest rail line
~8.9 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~9.1 mi · Interstate 15
State
MT
Coordinates
44.63660, -112.15717
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Price Creek Campground · Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest · MT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurePrice Creek · ~0.2 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townLakeview · ~17.1 mi
- Nearest rail line~8.9 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~9.1 mi · Interstate 15
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~21.3 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesGrocery · ~21.3 mi
EV charging — from Price Creek Campground · Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest · MT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger21.4 mi straight-line W — Lima, MT - Tesla Supercharger (at a restaurant) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 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 reach1 within 25 mi · 3 within 50 · 29 within 100 · 54 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS27.4 mi — Dell Mercantile (Dell, MT), Dell
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO41.4 mi — Island Park City Offices, Island Park
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)37.7 mi — SpringHill Suites Island Park Yellowstone · Blink 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 102265 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Price Creek Campground · Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest · MT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletPrice Creek Campground · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletLyons Bridge · ~1.0 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletAntone Station · ~10.3 mi N · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletAl Taylor Cabin · ~13.6 mi SE · USFS
Coming out here — Price Creek Campground · Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest · MT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Price Creek as a perennial stream, ~0.2 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 0.3% — 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 ~8.9 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.
- Interstate 15 is mapped ~9.1 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.
- 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 Price Creek Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Price Creek Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Forest Rd 9657~8.5 mi
- Forest Rd 100~9.6 mi
- Forest Rd 325~10.5 mi
- Forest Rd 325~10.5 mi
The unit that manages Price Creek Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Price Creek Campground are set by Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Divide at 7,770 ft, about 12 miles away. It sits about 1,172 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 — Price 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
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. | Fee 2026-08-22: $15 per night, single site, plus $5 for added vehicles; the group site is $50 per night. recreation.gov agrees for the 2026 peak season (May 23 - Sep 1) and adds an off-peak rate of $8 single and $25 group from Sep 2 to Nov 28. Caveat on location, not price: the forest page's own directions put this camp 16 miles up the Pioneer Mountains Scenic Byway, and recreation.gov files it at Polaris, but the coordinates the page prints -- the same ones we publish -- are about 74 miles away near the Highway 278 junction. Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r01/beaverhead-deerlodge/recreation/price-creek-campground and https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/10159202. || 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 2355719, site "PRICE CREEK CAMPGROUND" (recreation area "Price Creek Campground"), WATER_AVAILABILITY = "Yes, drinking water is available from a hand pump". Matched to this camp on coordinates (0.0007 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/10159202
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 Price 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 — Price Creek Campground
Winter vs summer roads →Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Picking a spot →All field notes →