Cherry Creek Campground

Smaller mosquitoes but pretty with amenities

Cherry Creek Campground comprises a total of nine campsites, per Recreation.gov and seeing for myself camping here for almost a week. The campsite is first come/first serve, and as of June to July 2024, there is a $23 per campsite fee for a max of 8 people and one vehicle. This fee is relatively low compared to other NPS campgrounds, honestly. It is very well-maintained and clean and consists of one vault toilet (aka: “outhouse”, as well as one large garbage container that is bear protected located at the end of the dirt road/entrance to main campground. There are also several bear protected containers located for every two sites allowing storage for campers’ food and food-related items and supplies helping campers stay safe from frequent bears in the area by storing their food, spices, herbs, pots, pans, dutch ovens, anything aromatic that would attract bears (perfumes, cologne, toothpaste, etc. included, FYI) set away from the campsites, at the end of the vehicle parking for each campsite, so close to the site’s fire pit to use, but also at a good distance away from your tent. There is also an information board next to the campsites’ vault toilet and bear protected garbage container with notices on any warning or alerts in the area, bear education, and policies and rules of the campground. There is also small containers to retrieve envelopes with attached receipts to pay the site’s fees with cash and deposit it in the dropbox next to the board, or else you are able to scan a QR code to pay online. It is a pack in/pack out (including all garbage) campsite. It has a lovely meadow area, allows pets on leash, and right off the banks of Hebgen Lake. It’s so beautiful! We will come again!

This small campground is tucked away on beautiful hebgen lake. It is a forrest Service campground with pit toilets, very clean. It has picnic tables and fire rings at its established sites. It is a rather long bumpy road into the main campground area on the Lake. There are two more primitive sites along the road coming in, these dont have lake views but are very private, if you needed to run a generator, you really dont have neighbors at either of these sites. Keep following the road in to the final 5 sites or so on the lake with the pit toilets.

Cool spot

The description really caught us off guard and it’s pretty wrong. 30 ft max length No reservations HOWEVER you do have to pay a $16 fee which isn’t a reservation but make sure you do that.