Mapped · not agency-listedUSFSUnpriced · confirm
Summit Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · ND · 47.53968, -103.24112
The site — Summit Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
2,511 ft
State
ND
Coordinates
47.53968, -103.24112
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Summit Campground · Little Missouri National Grassland · ND (OpenStreetMap)
- Nearest townGrassy Butte · ~10.2 mi
- Drinking water~2.5 mi
- Fuel~24.7 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesCash Wise Foods Grocery Store · ~17.7 mi
- PharmacyBarrett Health Mart Pharmacy · ~18.2 mi
- Hospital / clinicMcKenzie County Hospital · ~18.3 mi
What the record says about the site — Summit Campground · Little Missouri National Grassland · ND
- Standard site
- Room for 5 parties
- Tent camping
- Trailers and RVs fit
- Toilet on site
- No drinking water — carry your own
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Ask an AI about this campsiteOpens Grok already loaded with this site. It reads the same records this page is built from, and links whatever it tells you.
Ask about this camp →OpenStreetMap contributors mapped this site, and PAD-US, the federal land map, puts it on U.S. Forest Service land. The agency has not told us it lists it, so treat it as a good place to look, not a confirmed camp. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Weather outlook — at Summit Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,511 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Summit CampgroundNIFC · AirNow
No dated fire rule on record for this camp: ask the Little Missouri National Grassland.
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 Summit Campground · Little Missouri National Grassland · ND
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater2 mi
- FFuel18 mi
- GGrocery18 mi
- RxPharmacy18 mi
- @Mail21 mi
- +Urgent care25 mi
- HHardware26 mi
- LLaundry45 mi
- OOutfitter47 mi
- MMechanic47 mi
- ShShower47 mi
- AAir-up48 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 18 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Dump, 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 ↗
Nearby restrooms — around Summit Campground · Little Missouri National Grassland · ND — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletSummit · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletCcc Campground · ~3.6 mi NW · USFS
- RestroomNU - Wildlife Handling Facility Restroom (Vault Toilet) · ~3.9 mi NW · NPS
- RestroomNU-Temporary Visitor Center - Trailer #1 · ~4.2 mi N · NPS
Coming out here — Summit Campground · Little Missouri National Grassland · ND
- No surface water within about a mile and a half in our records — which is not proof there is none, only that we found none. Plan to carry washing water as well as drinking water.
- 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 Summit Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Summit Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Summit~0.0 mi
- Ccc Campground~3.6 mi · fee
- Bennett Campground~6.0 mi · fee
- Killdeer Mountains WMA~9.5 mi
The unit that manages Summit Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Summit Campground are set by Little Missouri National Grassland, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Summit Campground
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
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.
Agency page
fs.usda.gov — the land manager's own page for this site. Fees, seasons and closures are stated there first; if it disagrees with this page, it wins.
How it was placed
auto: drive (road/trail right there) | auto:dup-merge 2026-08-20: same campground as the agency record 'Summit' (within 60 m, different source). Archived to avoid two pins on one place; the agency row is authoritative because the agency named and placed it.
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
Field check
Contributed by OpenStreetMap. We did not get this from the agency; the land-manager name comes from PAD-US, the federal land map. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Summit 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 — Summit Campground
What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Dumping grey & black →Power off-grid →All field notes →