Homestake Pass

This place is huge. If you can’t find a spot, keep going! There are spot me with shade and spots without, your choice! We stayed one night in the big lot on the left before scouting out a more private loop. If you’re just here for a short time, there is a huge parking area before the train tracks with a pit toilet.

Extremely dusty and the fire pit was trashed, but we did our best to clean it up!

Water hand pump at the FS campground by Delmoe Lake.

Free dump and the town pump in butte (just purchase gas or car wash or something)

Make sure to find ringing rocks! Not too far and only happens in a handful of places around the world! If you have a high clearance 4x4, you can make it the whole way there With having to walk. We opted to pull off and walk part of the way as the road was rough.

I camped in the first camping area on the left (coords in site number above). The road in to that point was good, except for two areas of deep holes that have to be taken slowly. My site overlooked the road. The view was beautiful, but the road was busy from early morning until well past dark, with rattling boat and ATV trailers and clouds of dust. I recommend choosing a site away from the road. If you're only staying one night, camp at the big trailhead parking lot by the railroad tracks (the railroad is disused).

The sites in this area were fairly level, and mostly grass. It was packed on the weekend, but less so during the week. However, it was redneck central, with a fair number of dilapidated old RVs, big dogs barking, people yelling at their dogs and kids, loud music, and ATVs and dirt bikes racing around.

Verizon 4G was excellent, with 4 bars, -96 dB, 29 Mbps down and 15 up.

I got a propane refill at Murdoch's Ranch & Home Supply next to Walmart. The service was excellent; I had to wait only a couple of minutes. The Town Pump at 3700 Harrison Ave had a free, 3-lane dump station behind the car wash and casino.

I have just arrived here and plan to stay at least through the weekend. While busy arriving on a Friday evening I was still able to find a spot close to the entrance With many more secluded options further down the road accommodating large occupation and small. Very dirtbike/mountain bike friendly. Close to the 90 with full Verizon. Scenic and awesome with close access to Butte. What's not to love?

There... now people won’t check it out. In all honesty, we were heading to Delone Lake and the gravel road has many turn outs in both sides. Think logging clearing but with forest still around. I think we took the second or third turnout, (about a mile in). There was some awesome rocks (maybe mentioned in another review).

Few RV on the other turnout, one RV near us but far away. We have an SUV so no problem.

Lots of trees, winds, and birds. I mean, if you like that kind of stuff! 😃

Easy enough to find. Road is a bit rutted but not a deterrent. We stopped in the first main parking area and there were 5 or 6 other rigs spaced out nicely. You cannot hear the freeway but one rig ran a generator ALL night. We saw the ranger drive through around sunset. Lots of recreation traffic driving down the road until it was dark. Woke up to cows grazing around the trailer. Verizon coverage is fantastic!

Excellent, peaceful spot. As other reviewers said this location is close to the highway but because you drive up the mountain maybe 3/4 mile away from the road it feels remote once you’re there. We stayed briefly for one night, arriving late and leaving early. Was incredibly convenient to be back on the road so quickly. Watch out for cows on the drive up!

The main clearing area was relatively crowded, we arrived around 8pm on a Sunday in July and there were a few areas we could choose between but it was mostly full. Fairly uneven ground but wasn’t hard to find a relatively level area. Absolute best part was waking up to cows grazing peacefully 5 feet from our vehicle.

We didn’t get in a hike but it looked like there would be some nice trails for it in the area. There is a small bathroom in a lower clearing (I think that area is for horse trailers). Rugged but clean if you want to stop on your way out or in (too far to use while at the upper campsite). There were quite a few fire rings.

NOTE: google maps told us incorrectly, we were on I-90 going East and it told us to turn onto I-90 West to access. Incorrect, just exit and then follow the signs, ignore google maps.