Agency-listedUSFSFeeClosed for the seasonRoad season: closed (MVUM)
Quartz Flat Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · MT · 47.07662, -114.77038
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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.
Can I go now? — Quartz Flat Campground · Lolo National Forest · MT
Closed for the season Season May 21 – Sep 8. Opens May 21.
U.S. Forest Service record: “Open May 21, 2026 - September 8, 2026.” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Quartz Flat Campground · Lolo National Forest · MT
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 7700-H (Quartz Flat Camp Loop H), 70 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as bituminous surface treatment surface and maintenance level 5 – high degree of user comfort.
Road season: closed (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 7700-H (Quartz Flat Camp Loop H), 70 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles May 20 – Sep 7; today is outside that window. Opens May 20.
MVUM record for FR 7700-H (Quartz Flat Camp Loop H): “05/20-09/07” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; 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 →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Quartz Flat Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,867 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Quartz Flat 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 Quartz Flat Campground · Lolo National Forest · MT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- DDump0 mi
- FFuel10 mi
- GGrocery10 mi
- EVEV fast charger10 mi
- RxPharmacy10 mi
- @Mail10 mi
- LLaundry26 mi
- HHardware27 mi
- WWater28 mi
- ShShower31 mi
- MMechanic32 mi
- +Urgent care33 mi
- OOutfitter37 mi
- AAir-up39 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 28-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 — Quartz Flat Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
2,867 ft
Ground slope
0.6% · flat
Nearest rail line
~0.1 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~0.2 mi · Interstate 90
State
MT
Coordinates
47.07662, -114.77038
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Quartz Flat Campground · Lolo National Forest · MT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureClark Fork · ~0.4 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townQuartz · ~1.7 mi
- Nearest rail line~0.1 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~0.2 mi · Interstate 90
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~0.1 mi
- FuelFuel · ~27.0 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~0.2 mi · free · customers only
- GroceriesStore · ~21.7 mi
- PharmacyMineral Pharmacy · ~9.9 mi
- Hospital / clinicMineral Community Hospital · ~9.0 mi
- HardwareStuds Building and Home · ~26.7 mi
EV charging — from Quartz Flat Campground · Lolo National Forest · MT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger9.7 mi straight-line NW — Superior, MT - Tesla Supercharger (at a gas station) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 4 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 reach3 within 25 mi · 10 within 50 · 25 within 100 · 85 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS21.7 mi — St. Regis, MT, St. Regis
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO36.9 mi — Walmart 3259 (Missoula, MT), Missoula
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)33.3 mi — Gray Wolf Peak Casino, Missoula, MT · Blink Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Alpine Falls Ranch - Tesla Destination, Superior, 14.4 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
- 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 102264 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Quartz Flat Campground · Lolo National Forest · MT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletQuartz Flat Campground · at this camp · USFS
- Highway rest areaQuartz Flat EB · at this camp
- Highway rest areaQuartz Flats WB · ~0.3 mi SE
- Vault / pit toiletTrout Creek Campground · ~5.4 mi NW · USFS
Coming out here — Quartz Flat Campground · Lolo National Forest · MT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Clark Fork as a perennial stream, ~0.4 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 0.6% — 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 ~0.1 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 90 is mapped ~0.2 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.
- 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 Quartz Flat Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Quartz Flat Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Drd-Como550Rd-007~3.1 mi
- Trout Creek Campground~5.4 mi · fee
- Troutcreek - 001~5.8 mi
- Troutcreek002~6.1 mi
The unit that manages Quartz Flat Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Quartz Flat Campground are set by Lolo National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Hoodoo Basin at 6,060 ft, about 14 miles away. It sits about 3,193 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 — Quartz Flat Campground
Open season
Open May 21, 2026 - September 8, 2026.
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; $5 per additional vehicle after the first two. Non-campers pay $10 to use the dump station, and paying by app adds a $1.50 service fee, one night at a time. recreation.gov publishes the same $15 for the 2026 season (May 21 - Sep 7). Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r01/lolo/recreation/quartz-flat-campground and https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/10110663. || Water: Lolo National Forest's own site page for Quartz Flat Campground, https://www.fs.usda.gov/r01/lolo/recreation/quartz-flat-campground (read 2026-08-24; page "Last updated" July 14, 2026), "Facility and Amenity Information > Water": "Potable water is available at this site.". Corroborated by the USFS EDW Recreation Sites layer (apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/EDW/EDW_RecInfraRecreationSites_02/MapServer/0, queried 2026-08-24), WATER_AVAILABILITY = "Drinking Water". Page "Seasons of Use": "Open May 21, 2026 - September 8, 2026." -- that is the season of the SITE, not a statement about when the water is turned on. recreation.gov facility 10110663 ("Quartz Flat Campground (MT)") lists the amenity "Accessible Drinking Water", "Drinking Water". Channels agree; nightshift fire 1660.
Season
Read from the agency's own season / closure text in this record (data/conditions.py) and checked against the calendar. The words we read are printed under the verdict at the top of the page.
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 Quartz Flat 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.
- Whether that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- 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 — Quartz Flat Campground
Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Dumping grey & black →Reading your camp page →All field notes →