Destinations
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Accessible Recreation Opportunities
We offer a range of experiences of trails and recreation sites including campgrounds with accessible site amenities as well as areas that offer universally accessible restrooms, overlooks and fishing piers.
USDA Forest Service photo.
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Beartooth Scenic Byway
A top destination locally and regionally.
USDA Forest Service photo.
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Campgrounds Near Yellowstone National Park
Looking for a campground in the Greater Yellowstone Area, without the crowds? Find Gallatin National Forest Campgrounds within 35 miles of Yellowstone National Park and offer great camping in rustic settings.
USDA Forest Service photo.
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Earthquake Lake Visitors Center
In 1967, the Forest Service’s Earthquake Lake Visitor Center opened its doors for the first season of operation. Today, the center provides interpretive services for more than 50,000 visitors annually. The natural attractions and the easily-seen effects of the strongest earthquake in the Rocky mountains has made this area one of the outstanding scenic and geological study areas in the west.
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National Register of Historic Places
The Meyers Creek Work Center complex was listed April 14, 2023 on the National Register of Historic Places.
Shenango and Poker Jim formalized on National Register September 1, 2022.
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The OTO Ranch
Completed in fall of 1920, the Lodge opened. As the first dude ranch in the state of Montana, the OTO ranch was one of 26 in Montana and Wyoming at the formation of the "Dude Ranch Association” in 1926.
USDA Forest Service photo.
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Wilderness Areas
There are two wilderness areas on the Custer-Gallatin National Forest. The Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness and the Lee Metcalf Wilderness.
Alerts & Warnings
- West Boulder Campground water outage
- Hyalite Target Shooting Closure
- Beartooth Ranger District Road and Trail Closures 01-11-82-23-05
- East Rosebud Road 2177 and East Rosebud Trail 15_Restrictions 01-11-82-23-03
- 01-11-04-23-03 Yellowstone Ranger District Camping Area Closure
- Woody Creek Road Closure
- Road #3089, Closure, Sioux Ranger District
- McConnell Fishing Access and Beattie Gulch Area Shooting Closures
- Hyalite Drainage Proposed Permanent Recreational Target Shooting Restriction