About this place
Two camp sites, on the Ashland Ranger District. There is no drinking water, no trash pickup and no firewood. Bring everything.
There is a vault toilet.
The facts
- Cost
- Free to camp
- Drinking water
- No, bring your own
- Toilet
- Yes
- Type
- Specific campsite
- When it’s open
- All year, weather permitting
- Managed by
- Custer Gallatin National Forest
Getting there
Coordinates 45.349167, -106.286250
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Nearest town and supplies
- Birney, MT Directions
- Lame Deer, MT Directions
Lame Deer is big enough that you’d normally expect fuel and somewhere to buy food. Nobody from here has been to check, so don’t count on it if you’re running low.
Why the drive to town is usually twice what the map says — what we found measuring every campsite in this guide.
When it’s time to move on
On most public land you can camp for 14 days before you have to move on. Check this site’s own limit before you plan a long stay. This is Forest Service land, and each forest sets its own rule for how far you have to go, so check before you travel.
The nearest other free campsite in this guide is Holiday Spring Campground, Montana — 25 miles in a straight line, but a 42 mile drive. Two more sit closer than 25 miles, if the rule here allows them.
This guide covers five states and does not list every free campsite, so there may be something closer that we do not hold. Check this site’s own rule before you rely on it.
Have you been here?
Fees and access change, and the records do not always keep up. If you have been, tell us what you found.
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Where this information comes from
The description on this page is ours. The facts in it, and the fee and facility details below it, come from the Forest Service’s own records, read in August 2026.