Best Glamping near Whitefish, MT

9/13/19 West Glacier, Montana 

West Glacier KOA Resort

Most beautiful location of the KOAs I've stayed at. Nestled against the mountains and less than 3 miles to Glacier National Park. 

Lots of sites to choose from. Ours was a pull thru with nice vegetation between. Fire pit with benches and picnic table. Some sites are close together with no privacy. Some have gas grills and patio furniture. There are cabins and tent sites as well. Bathhouse was average. The cafe was open for breakfast and dinner.Ice cream shop closed for the season. Amazing pool! Nice play area, dog parks. Really nice camp store, firewood available. KOA Workshop on site. RV wash and dog grooming by appointment.

West Glacier KOA

Nice campground, not surprisingly very crowded. Typical KOA, the sites are right on top of each other. Teenagers rudely cutting through your site. The next sites fire pit was 2 feet from my vehicle, I left that window closed so the smoke would not come in. One lane road with vehicles speeding both ways and inexperienced travelers backing ....trying to back into small sites. It was hectic, loud and crowded, though not horrible. There was shade on my “lane”, an adequate trail to walk, though watch out for bikers. A very nice dog park. Two food vendors, one ice cream, (cash) and a “grill” with outdoor seating and grill master. Two pools. One for families and the other adult only (yeah!) with hot tube. New shower house and laundry room. Close to Glacier and other tourist attractions. Reserve WAY ahead!

We typically avoid private campgrounds. This one though was different. Amazing proximity to the west entrance of Glacier NP (but west side of Glacier NP is basically closed until July 1.) and a 1.5ish hour drive to the East gate and Two Medicine. We have a 25ft camper and the site was more than big enough. The camp sites were very well maintained but still felt like you were out in the woods camping. Good space between sites. Sites have a fire pit(only allow fires in their ring) and we did a water and electric hook up site. Dumping is free or you can pay them to come and dump your tanks on site. There is also a laundry room. We were very impressed.

We stayed here for 4 nights. Only 5 minutes away from West Glacier Park entrance. Close by is a zip line attraction with a blow up slide in water for the little ones and bounce house obstacle with a slide. Also an adventure park that has go karts, bumper cars, lazy river etc. Great location with so much to do outside the park. We had a corner spot which I really liked for some privacy. Each site has its own fire pit which was nice. Wi-Fi in my opinion worked great. Has a dog park and a little playground for kids. Laundry room and bath houses were very clean. Also has an arcade and loved how they use honesty policy during closed hours where you can pick up firewood or ice and pay the next morning:) I definitely recommend and will come back for another Montana adventure.

All the camp sites have Electric, and water hookups. Some have sewage as well.

There is a dump station, and propane fill up on site. It’s $25 to dump. The sunset cafe in the campground is is nice and has covered and out door seating. The food was lovely.

They have a small gift shop/store on site too!

Make sure you bring an extension cord to hook up your electric just in case you have a short standard cord on your camper.

There are several shower/bathroom station through the campground and kept very clean.

The campground is about a mile away from the main entrance to Glacier Park (West Entrance)

Overall, we loved our stay and will be back!

Glacier National Park was the ultimate destination for our two-week anniversary trip, so we wanted to be very close to the park so that we could make the most of our time there. Moose Creek did not disappoint! We stayed here for four nights at Site 12, while our friends occupied Site 11. After reading on the website that our GPS may not be reliable, we called and got more specific directions from Katie and easily found the campground off of Highway 2.

Checking in was a breeze as was setting up. At Site 12, we had to be careful of trees obstructing our slide and awning, but we figured that out pretty quickly. The site was shady and had various wildflowers. Ground squirrels and robins were in abundance and fun to watch. Our only disappointment was the highway noise. We weren’t expecting that but eventually were able to tune it out. Other than the highway noise, the campground was quiet during our stay.

We utilized the laundry facility during our first day. We were able to get a $10 roll of quarters from the front desk and knock out our laundry fairly quickly. The washers are pretty small but the dryers are huge, so plan accordingly. We never used the bathrooms or showers, so I can’t comment on their state. The communal fire area was really cute, but we opted to use our own propane fire pit at our site. We toured the other sites and loved the primitive sites at the back of the campground as they afforded campers more privacy.

Most of our time on this leg of our journey was spent in Glacier exploring the beautiful park, and Moose Creek served our needs as a home base for our first trip to the area. We would definitely stay here again! We really enjoyed the clean grounds, proximity to Glacier, friendly staff, and full hookups.