Campground · Beartooth Highway
Creekside camping, with Greenough Lake a short walk away.
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The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Beartooth Highway Tour Guide
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Beartooth Highway. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
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Rock Creek Campgrounds and Greenough Lake“You're approaching the Rock Creek campgrounds and the access to Greenough Lake. The campsites sit among pine and aspen beside the creek, a pleasant base if you want to stay overnight below the high country.”
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Greenough Lake Campground is an 18-site Forest Service campground on the Main Fork of Rock Creek, about 12 miles south of Red Lodge and just off the Beartooth Highway. Aspen and pine shade the sites beneath the Beartooth Range. It’s a good fit for a simple overnight or a night or two between drives, with the creek and Greenough Lake close by.
Each site has a picnic table and fire ring; two sites and the vault toilets are accessible. These are standard, nonelectric sites, and drinking water comes from a hand pump. There’s no food service listed, so bring your meals and water containers. Grizzlies live in the surrounding forest, so secure food in an approved container, a locked vehicle or the provided lockers.
Greenough Lake is about 0.2 miles from camp, an easy walk for a paddle or a look at the water. Canoeing, kayaking and rainbow trout fishing are listed there, and the Main Fork is also a fishing stream. I’d come first for the creekside setting and easy lake access; fishing reports vary, so don’t make a catch the whole plan. Hellroaring and Lake Fork trailheads reach the Beartooth Wilderness, and the Parkside National Recreation Trail is nearby too.
Wildlife
42 sightingsGrizzly BearMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
22 sightingsGray WolfMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
49 sightingsBisonMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
122 sightingsMooseMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
260 sightingsMountain GoatMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
16 sightingsBighorn SheepMost seen around 7 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Beartooth Highway. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
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EasyGreenough Lake Trail #103.10.4 mi · 20 min · 0.3 mi awayA quick, gentle walk to a Beartooth lake.
EasyParkside Trail #1032.3 mi · 1.3 hr · 0.5 mi awayA gentle walk through pine woods and meadows between two campgrounds.
ModerateBroadwater Lake via Lake Fork Trail7.5 mi · 4 hr · 1.6 mi awayA creekside ramble ends in Broadwater's open mountain meadows.
ChallengingSundance Pass Traverse20.5 mi · 11 hr · 1.6 mi awayA full day over Sundance Pass, from lakes to wild creek.
ChallengingLake Fork Trail #2 to Sundance Pass19 mi · 12 hr · 1.6 mi awayA long creekside climb from lakes to a high alpine pass
ChallengingBlack Canyon Lake Trail13.3 mi · 7.5 hr · 1.6 mi awayA long wilderness hike to a turquoise lake and glacier viewsModerateLost Lake Trail (Lake Fork)10.6 mi · 6 hr · 1.6 mi awayA long creekside out-and-back to a high lake beneath Peak 10,913.
ChallengingKeyser Brown Lake Trail13.2 mi · 7.5 hr · 1.6 mi awayA long creekside walk to a high, quiet alpine lake.
Campground · 0.2 mi awayLimber Pine CampgroundA quiet creekside base below the Beartooth switchbacks.
Campground · 0.5 mi awayParkside CampgroundCreekside camping near the foot of the Beartooth switchbacks.
Sight · 0.9 mi awayRock Creek Vista PointA short paved path opens onto a huge glacial valley.
Campground · 1.5 mi awayM-K CampgroundA free creekside campground near Beartooth Highway hikes.
Scenic pullout · 2 mi awayQuad Creek Scenic OverlookThe highway curls below you across a wide mountain valley.
Sight · 3.5 mi awayMontana-Wyoming State Line SignA quick state-line sign stop on the seasonal Beartooth Highway.
Sight · 4.6 mi awayBeartooth Highway Welcome SignA quick welcome photo before the high-country drive.
Scenic pullout · 4.7 mi awayTwin Lakes OverlookTwo alpine lakes, seen from above without a hike.Parkwolf’s Beartooth Highway ranking
The audio tour guide for the drive, plus offline maps, trails, and wildlife heatmaps for when the signal drops.
