MONTANA
Municipal Camp Sites
| Town or City | Charge or Free |
Toilet | Drinking Water |
Fireplace or Stove |
Lights | Bath or Shower |
| Alhambra | F | |||||
| Anaconda | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | [256] |
| Armington | ||||||
| Augusts | F | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Baker | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Barkell Hot Springs | F | Y | ||||
| Basin | F | Y | Y | |||
| Belgrade | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Belt | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Benchland | ||||||
| Big Timber | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Billings | F | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Bole | ||||||
| Bonita | F | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Boulder | F | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Bozeman | F | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Bridger | F | |||||
| Broadview | F | |||||
| Brockton | F | |||||
| Browning | F | Y | Y | |||
| Butte—2 camps | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Bynum | F | |||||
| Camas Hot Springs | F | Y | Y | |||
| Chester | F | Y | Y | |||
| Choteau | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Clarks Fork | ||||||
| Clyde Park | F | Y | Y | |||
| Columbus | ||||||
| Crow Agency | F | Y | Y | |||
| Culbertson | F | |||||
| Deer Lodge | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Drummond | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | [257] |
| Dupuyer | F | Y | Y | |||
| Eureka | F | Y | ||||
| Elkhorn Hot Springs | F | Y | ||||
| Fairfield | F | |||||
| Fallon | ||||||
| Forsythe | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Fort Benton | F | Y | Y | |||
| Frenchtown | ||||||
| Geyser | ||||||
| Glacier N’l Park | F | |||||
| Glendive | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Grass Range | F | |||||
| Great Falls | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Gregson Hot Springs | F | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Gilman | F | |||||
| Glasgow | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Hamilton | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Hardin | F | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Harlem | F | |||||
| Harrison | ||||||
| Havre | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Helena—2 camps | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Hobson | ||||||
| Hysham | ||||||
| Hunter’s Hot Springs | F | |||||
| Ismay | ||||||
| Kalispell | 25c. day | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Laurel | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Lewiston | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y[258] |
| Libby | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Livingston | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Gateway to Yellowstone Park | ||||||
| Lodge Grass | F | |||||
| Malta | F | Y | Y | |||
| Manhattan | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Mason City | ||||||
| Mildred | ||||||
| Miles City | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Missoula | 50c. day | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Moccasin | ||||||
| Moore | F | Y | ||||
| Philipsburg | ||||||
| Pipestone Hot Springs | F | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Plevna | ||||||
| Polson | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Poplar | F | Y | Y | |||
| Potosi Hot Sp’gs | F | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Ravalli | F | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Raynesford | ||||||
| Reed Point | F | |||||
| Rochester | ||||||
| Ronan | F | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Rosebud | ||||||
| Roundup | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| St. Ignatius | F | Y | ||||
| St. Joseph | ||||||
| St. Regis | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Saltese | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Sheridan | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | [259] |
| Stanford | ||||||
| Stevensville | F | |||||
| Superior | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Terry | F | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Thompson Falls | ||||||
| Three Forks | F | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Townsend | F | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Troy | ||||||
| Virginia City | F | Y | ||||
| Westmore | ||||||
| West Yellowstone | F | Y | ||||
| Whitehall | F | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Wibaux | ||||||
| Willow Creek | ||||||
| Windham | F | Y | ||||
| Wolf Point | F | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Wyola |
The National Forests of Montana are exceptionally attractive to auto campers. During the summer months there is usually little rain. The weather is cool, especially at night, but it is seldom necessary to provide more than a light tent and sufficient blankets for warmth. Many of the tourists passing through this country use folding cots or air mattresses, but many simply spread their blankets on a piece of canvas placed next to the ground. Owners of Ford cars commonly have the back of the front seat hinged in such a manner that it may be folded [260]back at night, making a very comfortable bed. Such a bed is a little short for an adult, and should be lengthened by a piece of board at the foot. By putting up the side curtains a person has as much privacy as he desires. Some of the larger cars use patent beds which stretch across the tops of the seats. The patent auto tents are also very popular.
What are called “Road Homes” are coming to be seen very frequently. A typical road home as seen along the Montana trails usually consists of a small cabin built upon a truck chassis. Many of these appear to be home-made.
A part of the Yellowstone National Park is in Montana, as also the whole of the Glacier National Park.
There are eighteen of the National Forests in this state; the list which follows also shows the acreage. They are: Absaroka (842,467), Beartooth (662,537), Beaverhead (1,337,223), Bitterroot (1,047,012), Blackfeet (865,077), Cabinet (830,676), Custer (428,922), Deerlodge (833,178), Flathead (1,802,905), Gallatin (564,855), Helena (687,983), Jefferson (1,039,766), Kootenai (1,336,061), Lewis and Clark (811,161), Lolo (850,677), Madison (958,691), Missoula (1,031,529), Sioux (96,743).
Among the regions of this state which offer exceptional opportunities for the motorist may be mentioned the Beartooth National Forest, located just northeast of the Yellowstone Park. Here is a region of rugged mountains, glaciers, and lakes unrivaled [261]for mountain scenery except by Glacier National Park. This country is easily reached by the motorist over excellent roads.
The canyon of the West Gallatin River is traversed by an excellent motor road. The trip between Bozeman and the west entrance of the Yellowstone National Park over this route is justly famous for the grandeur of its scenery.
An excellent road leads north from Livingston through White Sulphur Springs and the Jefferson National Forest to Great Falls, and thence to Glacier National Park. It passes through a region of ranches, mining camps, rugged canyons, and broad bench lands, and gives the traveler unacquainted with the West a chance to see much which he has read about but never seen.
Missoula, “The Garden City of Montana,” is located in a region rich in scenery and historic interest. The famous Bitterroot Valley extends to the south for a hundred miles. The road up this valley is one of the best in the country. From the head of the valley the Forest Service has constructed a road over the Continental Divide into the Big Hole Basin. This road is a link in the Park to Park Highway, extending from Glacier to Yellowstone National Park.
To the north of Missoula is the Flathead Indian Reservation, now the home of the Selish tribe of Indians. Still further to the north is Flathead Lake, a beautiful sheet of water thirty-five miles long and twelve miles wide, upon which steamboat service is [262]maintained during the summer. Glacier Park lies still further to the north and is reached over excellent roads.