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Warm Springs WMA
Drive-up · Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks · MT · 46.16816, -112.78756
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Ask about this camp →Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks lists this site. Someone from the agency inventoried it, so it is a real camp — not a spot we guessed at. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Warm Springs Wildlife Management Area, managed by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, FWP Region 2. FWP's own site record lists a designated primitive campsite here and its fee table shows no camping fee. IMPORTANT -- THIS IS NOT FREE LAND, even though the camping itself costs nothing: Montana requires a Conservation License of every person aged 12 and older to use an FWP wildlife management area FOR ANY REASON, not just to hunt or fish. It is $8/year for residents, $10/year for nonresidents ($4 for resident youth 12-17 and seniors 62+). Buy it before you arrive. There is no separate per-night camping fee. Camping is allowed only in areas FWP has designated or marked for it (ARM 12.12.107), for no more than 7 nights in any 30-day period statewide. Primitive: pack in / pack out, no hookups and no drinking water; there is a vault toilet. Access is partly or wholly walk-in from established roads and parking areas, so check the area's travel plan map before assuming you can drive to a site. Quiet hours are 10 p.m.-7 a.m. and certified weed-free feed is required for stock. We have not visited this site. Confirm the current season dates, the travel plan map and whether camping is still allowed with FWP Region 2 at (406)693-9083 before you go.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Warm Springs WMA
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4,843 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Warm Springs WMANIFC · 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 Warm Springs WMA · Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks · MT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail1 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- FFuel8 mi
- RxPharmacy8 mi
- HHardware8 mi
- MMechanic8 mi
- LLaundry8 mi
- WWater14 mi
- EVEV fast charger14 mi
- +Urgent care16 mi
- OOutfitter16 mi
- ShShower17 mi
- AAir-up18 mi
- DDump19 mi
- PPropane38 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 8 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 — Warm Springs WMA
Access
Drive-up
Land
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks
Elevation
4,843 ft
Ground slope
0.4% · flat
Nearest rail line
~0.2 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~0.1 mi · Interstate 90
State
MT
Coordinates
46.16816, -112.78756
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Warm Springs WMA · Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks · MT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureMill-Willow Bypass · under 0.1 mi · USGS: canal or ditch, no flow class
- Nearest townRacetrack · ~7.8 mi
- Nearest rail line~0.2 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~0.1 mi · Interstate 90
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelConoco · ~7.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump stationRV Dump · ~19.3 mi
- GroceriesThriftway Super Stop · ~7.5 mi
- PharmacyCVS Pharmacy · ~7.6 mi
- Hospital / clinicBig Sky Diagnostic Imaging · ~15.9 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~7.6 mi
EV charging — from Warm Springs WMA · Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks · MT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger14.0 mi straight-line SE — Flying J Town Pump (Butte, MT) · Electrify America · CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach4 within 25 mi · 8 within 50 · 25 within 100 · 36 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)14.1 mi — Butte, MT - Grizzly Trail - Tesla Supercharger, Butte
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO47.7 mi — L146 DC1, Helena
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)7.3 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 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 170364 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Warm Springs WMA · Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks · MT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaAnaconda · ~5.3 mi S
- Vault / pit toiletRacetrack Campground · ~10.6 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletOrofino Campground · ~10.6 mi NE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletOrofino Picnic Area · ~10.6 mi NE · USFS
Coming out here — Warm Springs WMA · Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks · MT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Mill-Willow Bypass as a canal or ditch (no flow class in the record), under 0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). The record carries no flow class for it. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 0.4% — flat. 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 ~0.2 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 ~0.1 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 Warm Springs WMA elsewhere
Other camps near Warm Springs WMA
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Lost Creek WMA~7.8 mi
- Dry Cottonwood Creek-001~9.3 mi
- Orofino Campground~10.6 mi
- Racetrack Campground~10.6 mi · fee
Who holds the land at Warm Springs WMA
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Warm Springs Wildlife Management Area, manager on record: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, Region 2 (state). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Warm Springs WMA
Stay limit
7 nights (Stay limit 7 nights)
Source
Montana FWP (wildlife management areas)
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
Montana FWP WMA. Camping flag: fwpLands WMA Locations layer (fwp-gis.mt.gov/arcgis/rest/services/fwplnd/fwpLands/MapServer/7), CAMPING='Yes'. Designated campsite independently confirmed by the Facilities list on FWP's own site page myfwp.mt.gov/fwpPub/landsMgmt/siteDetail.action?lmsId=39754067 ('Bike Trail Garbage Bins Group Use - Sheltered Hiking Trail Information Kiosk/Map Interpretive Trail Pack in/Pack out Parking Picnic Table Primitive Campsite Sheltered Toilet (Vault)'). No camping fee: that page's structured `sitefees` table lists only Conservation License rows -- no 'FAS Camping' row (which is $12/$18 per the 2025 FAS Annual Rule where it applies). Conservation License required for any use of an FWP WMA per FWP's conservation-license page and the 2026 Fishing Regulations ('for any reason'). Stay limit 7 nights/30 days per ARM 12.12.107. Coordinates cross-checked between two independent FWP channels -- GIS geometry and the detail page's stated Latitude/Longitude -- agreeing to 0.0008 mi. Open season per FWP: Jan 1 to Dec 31. Nightshift ingest 2026-07-20 21:28:38. WATER (fire 1740, batch 3, tier F): https://myfwp.mt.gov/fwpPub/landsMgmt/siteDetail.action?lmsId=39754067 -- Montana FWP's own site record for this WMA itemises its Facilities as "Bike Trail / Garbage Bins / Group Use - Sheltered / Hiking Trail / Information Kiosk/Map / Interpretive Trail / Pack in/Pack out / Parking / Picnic Table / Primitive Campsite / Sheltered / Toilet (Vault)". Absence is read as no drinking water because FWP's Facilities vocabulary does carry water items and does use them: "Drinking Water" / "Water (Pump)" / "Water (Pressurized)" appear on 10 of the 23 FWP state-park pages read this fire through the same widget. This is a single-channel value -- FWP publishes no second per-site water channel, and no field visit backs it.
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 Warm Springs WMA
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 — Warm Springs WMA
Water on public land →Cold-weather camping →Fire rules & restrictions →Off-grid communication →All field notes →