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Pine Creek Campground is located approximately 13 miles south of Livingston, and a few miles east of the Yellowstone River and Highway 89, in Montana. Visitors enjoy the area for its hiking and fishing opportunities in a beautiful natural setting.
Pine Creek offers anglers the opportunity to fish for whitefish, rainbow and brown trout. An accessible fishing dock is located within the campground.
Creekside Trail is an accessible nature trail that meanders along Pine Creek for a half-mile in the campground.
The Pine Creek Trailhead offers hiking and horseback riding. Pine Creek Trail climbs five miles up to Pine Creek Lake, a beautiful 32-acre alpine lake. A mile up the trail from the campground, hikers are awarded beautiful views of Pine Creek Falls.
The campground offers several single-family campsites, as well as an **OVERNIGHT GROUP CAMPING AREA (SITE 26)** and **GROUP PICNIC AREA (SITE 28)** **is available for DAY-USE ONLY**. Tables and campfire rings are provided, as are vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection.
Pine Creek is situated in the foothills of the Absaroka Mountains in the heart of beautiful Paradise Valley. A forest of mature Douglas fir and spruce trees covers the campground.
From Livingston, head south on Highway 89 for 9 miles. Turn left onto East Side Road and continue 6 miles. Go a quarter-mile past the town of Pine Creek and turn onto Forest Road 202. Continue 3 miles south to the campground.
From Gardiner, travel north on Highway 89 to the Pray turnoff on Mill Creek Road. Turn right onto Mill Creek Road and go a half-mile to the stop sign at the junction with East Side Road. Turn left on East Side Road and go about 10 miles to Forest Road 202. Turn right onto 202 and go 3 miles south to the campground.
$24.00 includes 2 driving vehicles $9.00 each additional vehicle. Interagency Passes not applicable toward additional vehicle fees
Lovely forest service campground near Livingston, yet remote. Road into campground was single lane, but two-way traffic. So drive carefully. Probably best to not take big RVs and trailers up this road. Sites were well spaced. Some reservable, others first come. Good system of tagging sites that are available for a night or two. We had site 16 near a little creek and meadow. Vault toilets were very clean and didn’t smell bad. Toilet paper plentiful. Hosts are doing a great job here. Thanks!
We camped in loop A, number 5, for 4 days from August 24 thru 28. This is the most scenic location we have ever camped. The trailhead to Pine Creek Falls is in the campground and it is a beautiful walk.
We were there for a wedding at the adjacent Luccock Park Church Camp and it was an easy walk down to the wedding site, photo included.
The campsite hosts were very pleasant when they came by to warn us about the bears smelling cooking orders if we were to use our grill.
However, a warning. We were towing a small car behind our 34 foot class A motorhome. The road up to the camp is about 2.8 miles from the highway along the Yellowstone River and it is very steep and narrow. There are a few pull offs but it was a white knuckle driving experience going up....coming down was easier. With a smaller camper this is a world class camping site
If you like nice out of the way camp grounds, this is a good place. Miles off the highway on a single lane paved road. I took a 19 foot 5th wheel camper in. There is one tight switch back to navigate and is interesting if you meet someone coming the other way. Very quiet.
Neighbors (4 cars in two spots) had no concept on how noise carries. They were playing music from their car and with instruments. Site is great, up a long, paved windy one lane road. Directions on website aren’t right. Just watch for signs. Not six miles on dirt road. Turn left to get to city after dirt road. Great path by creek.
