North Fork Road Dispersed Camping

We arrived 9/13/21 to maybe 10 rigs already in place. This location could probably squeeze 20 so there was decent room around everyone. We have a 3 year old and there were a good amount of young families for him to make friends with. There are maybe 5 or so generator including mine, everyone had them off by 9pm if not earlier. Great location to run solar. We had ours set to 47 degrees up angle facing south and did pretty good for recharge.

This location is 11 minutes from Smiths Family Market and the rest of town. More major shopping like Home Depot, Lowe’s, Chick-Fil-A are in Kalispell about 35 minutes south.

Location is also right next to the main road. It is a 70 MPH zone so at night the passing vehicles can be a bit loud.

We have AT&T, our phones say 2 bars LTE, but that means nothing till after 9 or 10 pm the signal starts coming through. First thing in the AM we have 5G for 30 minutes to 1 hours 🤷🏼‍♂️ then nothing for the rest of the day.

All in all, we’d stay here again!

Planned to stay here 3 nights while we explored Glacier National park. After 2nd day we arrived at our TT found a note on our door and written on the dust on our tt to move. They also messed with our tt by unhooking our propane.. The locals feel this is site is there's. See the pix of site. No signs saying you can't camp in this site. No one came to talk to us

We have a big rig! This wide open field was a perfect place for us to stay so we could drop and go into Glacier for a few days. You can stay for 16 days for free! All of the neighbors there were friendly and we felt very safe. Our kids got to meet some friends and ride bikes in a huge space. We even had signal. It came and went but it was enough for us to handle business back home. We would come here again.

Arrived on a Sunday in mid- July. Nothing fancy or aesthetic, but easy access (right off north forks) plenty of space and sun for solar. Were able to level pretty quickly. 20 mins to west entrance of glacier and within walking distance of river access (just across north forks). Heard some generators but those don’t bother us too much. Just 15 minutes into town. Only real negative was very little cell service - could connect if I held my phone out the window.

We spent a little over a week here to explore Glacier and the area. It was a very convenient home base, but very crowded. It just a big open field and any size rig can fit. Since there are so many people during the busy season, despite having a good cell signal, there is no usable data connection at all during the day (and sometimes at night).

As far as noise - generators can be heard at all hours of the day. And I mean so hours - even at 3am. We even saw someone arrive at 10pm and then proceed to cut the grass around his spot with a weed wacker! Despite the noise, we would still camp here again.

You can fill water jugs with fresh spring water at mile 6 on north fork road (you'll see the water flowing out right on the side of the road) or for free at the Fish Creek Campground in the park. Also, right across the street is river access with parking, vault toilets, a boat launch, and a great sandy beach.

We checked out the river sites first, but it wasn’t quite right for us in spring conditions. This place is a big open field, which was great this time of year when their weren’t many people. There are plenty of sites with fire rings to choose from, views of the mountains, and an open field means plenty of solar. We had a few neighbors over the week and it was a good vibe. Reasonable generator use/no one running all night. It was a quiet and enjoyable week.

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