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Racetrack Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · MT · 46.28054, -112.93741
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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 — Racetrack Campground · Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest · MT
No road within 1 mi of the pin in the national MVUM layer — and that layer carries no data at all for this forest (unit 0102), so this is the layer's silence, not the ground's. 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 Racetrack Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,377 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Racetrack CampgroundNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
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 Racetrack 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
- @Mail10 mi
- FFuel10 mi
- GGrocery10 mi
- HHardware10 mi
- RxPharmacy10 mi
- LLaundry10 mi
- MMechanic11 mi
- WWater14 mi
- EVEV fast charger14 mi
- +Urgent care26 mi
- OOutfitter27 mi
- ShShower28 mi
- PPropane28 mi
- AAir-up29 mi
- DDump30 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 10 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 — Racetrack Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
5,377 ft
Ground slope
6.7% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~8.6 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~8.7 mi · Interstate 90
State
MT
Coordinates
46.28054, -112.93741
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Racetrack Campground · Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest · MT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureRacetrack Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townRacetrack · ~9.3 mi
- Nearest rail line~8.6 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~8.7 mi · Interstate 90
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelConoco · ~10.0 mi
- Propane / LPGEnergy Partners · ~28.3 mi
- Dump stationRV Dump · ~29.8 mi
- GroceriesThriftway Super Stops · ~10.0 mi
- PharmacyTrifty Drug Store · ~10.5 mi
- Hospital / clinicBig Sky Diagnostic Imaging · ~26.5 mi
- HardwareTrue Value · ~10.4 mi
EV charging — from Racetrack Campground · Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest · MT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger13.6 mi straight-line NE — Sinclair - Tesla Supercharger, Deer Lodge, MT (at a gas station) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-14 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach3 within 25 mi · 7 within 50 · 22 within 100 · 42 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS24.5 mi — Flying J Town Pump (Butte, MT), Butte
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO49.4 mi — L146 DC1, Helena
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)10.4 mi — ApocWorld, Anaconda, MT · AMPUP · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2023-12-13 · hours: Contact site for information
- Pricing at the fast charger$0.56 per kWh (as listed by AFDC)
- 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 466520 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Racetrack Campground · Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest · MT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletRacetrack Campground · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletRacetrack Creek Cabin · ~4.0 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletDoney Lake Cabin · ~11.7 mi N · USFS
- RestroomHS-20 Privy - Historic, Non-Functional · ~12.9 mi NE · NPS
Coming out here — Racetrack Campground · Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest · MT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Racetrack Creek as a perennial stream, 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 6.7% — gentle. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (10 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 ~8.6 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 ~8.7 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 Racetrack Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Racetrack Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Racetrack Creek-014B~0.4 mi
- Racetrack Creek-013~0.6 mi
- Racetrack Creek-010~0.8 mi
- Racetrack Creek-009~1.0 mi
The unit that manages Racetrack Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Racetrack 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 Warm Springs at 7,840 ft, about 11 miles away. It sits about 2,463 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 — Racetrack 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 an extra vehicle. Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r01/beaverhead-deerlodge/recreation/racetrack-campground-and-picnic-area. || 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 2352861, site "RACETRACK CAMPGROUND" (recreation area "Racetrack 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.
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 Racetrack 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 — Racetrack Campground
Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Picking a spot →All field notes →