Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Trout Creek Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · MT · 47.11606, -114.87057
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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 — Trout Creek Campground · Lolo National Forest · MT
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 250 (Pierce - Superior), 100 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as crushed aggregate or gravel surface and maintenance level 4 – moderate degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 250 (Pierce - Superior), 100 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 250 (Pierce - Superior): “01/01-12/31” 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 Trout Creek Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,932 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Trout 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 Trout Creek 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
- FFuel5 mi
- GGrocery5 mi
- DDump5 mi
- EVEV fast charger5 mi
- @Mail5 mi
- RxPharmacy6 mi
- HHardware24 mi
- LLaundry31 mi
- WWater33 mi
- MMechanic35 mi
- ShShower36 mi
- +Urgent care37 mi
- OOutfitter42 mi
- AAir-up44 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 33-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 5 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 — Trout Creek Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
2,932 ft
Ground slope
12.9% · noticeable
Nearest rail line
~2.4 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~3.1 mi · Interstate 90
State
MT
Coordinates
47.11606, -114.87057
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Trout Creek Campground · Lolo National Forest · MT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureTrout Creek · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townRiverbend · ~2.7 mi
- Nearest rail line~2.4 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~3.1 mi · Interstate 90
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~5.1 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~5.3 mi
- GroceriesTown Pump · ~5.1 mi
- PharmacyMineral Pharmacy · ~5.5 mi
- HardwareStuds Building and Home · ~23.5 mi
EV charging — from Trout Creek Campground · Lolo National Forest · MT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger5.3 mi straight-line N — 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 · 26 within 100 · 86 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS16.5 mi — St. Regis, MT, St. Regis
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO42.3 mi — Walmart 3259 (Missoula, MT), Missoula
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)38.1 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, 9.2 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 Trout Creek Campground · Lolo National Forest · MT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletTrout Creek Campground · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletThompson Peak Lookout · ~4.7 mi N · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletQuartz Flat Campground · ~5.4 mi SE · USFS
- Highway rest areaQuartz Flat EB · ~5.6 mi SE
Coming out here — Trout Creek Campground · Lolo National Forest · MT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Trout 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 12.9% — noticeable. 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 ~2.4 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 ~3.1 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 Trout Creek Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Trout Creek Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Troutcreek - 001~0.6 mi
- Troutcreek002~1.1 mi
- Troutcreek003~1.4 mi
- Troutcreek004~1.5 mi
The unit that manages Trout Creek Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Trout Creek 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 12 miles away. It sits about 3,128 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 — Trout 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 2026-08-23: $15 per night, single site, and that price includes two vehicles; each additional vehicle is $5 per night. First-come, first-served, payable at the fee station by QR code through the recreation.gov app, which adds a $1.50 service fee and takes one night at a time. recreation.gov publishes the same $15 for the 2026 season (May 7 - Sep 28). Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r01/lolo/recreation/trout-creek-campground and https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/10169446. || 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 2361184, site "TROUT CREEK CAMPGROUND" (recreation area "Trout Cr Cg"), 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/10169446
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 Trout 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.
- Whether that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- Whether the site itself closes on its own schedule — only the road's season is on record
- 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 — Trout Creek Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Camping with a dog →All field notes →