Fairy Lake Campground

This campground is mentioned to only be free near the lake. We decided to take our chances on a slightly rainy night. I would highly not recommend unless you have 4 wheel drive and even then we saw a jeep wrangler sliding everywhere. We made it past the campsite and down a dirt road (it was extremely bumpy!), we saw a few other campers along the creek before climbing the slippery dirt road. We didn’t realize how bad it would be but we made it up the first stretch where there was a landing, after the landing there is another stretch of dirt road to climb and I’m not sure what was beyond that point. This campsite is located in the gallatin national forest and when we reached the landing there was a sign for no overnight camping within the forest. At this point the rain had picked back up so we decided to go back down the mountain and camp with everyone else along the creek. The mosquitos were heavy but didn’t bite. It was quiet and the spot was well kept with a rock fire pit!

Campsite 1 was probably not the best choice but we loved the view… so did our wild life friends

For sure there is 1 grizzly that’s pretty big. He checked out our truck tent.

Mountain Goats will come in your camp and they will do what goats do and want to check you out. They are not scared

The restrooms are shutdown in the camp but the lake access restroom down the hill does work

1 bear box for the whole camp ground so be prepared to store food in car or tree

Sites were readily available the night we stayed, about 12 in the main campground and several more sites with fire rings outside by the trail entrance. Overall pretty clean, and the lake has a small trail to walk around. The road to get to the trailhead and campground was slow going and really just a logging route- would recommend something with good clearance and ideally 4WD. There are restrooms but no trash bins.

Was unable to get to this site as the road in was closed due to logging. Had a Tángeres parked at the turn off from the main road.

Actual campground was closed, so we camped right outside. There was a perfect little creek that my 5yo fully enjoyed for a few days. If it wasn't so far, would definitely go back.

Rough road getting up and can get pretty crowded when the gates open but, great access to sacagewea peak hike and cold water.

I would love to review this site but any time I've gone it's been full..boo