Bird/Wildlife Watching

Old West RV Park

13 RV Sites

Old West RV Park in Reed Point, Montana, offers 13 full-hookup RV sites off Interstate 90 at mile marker 392, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 75 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Back-in and pull-through sites carry water, sewer, and electric with picnic tables, on the Yellowstone River between Billings and Livingston. Thirteen sites carry full hookups on 20, 30, and 50-amp in both back-in and pull-through configurations, sized to 75 feet, with picnic tables. The big-rig-friendly layout means long coaches can get in and out without a difficult approach after a day on the interstate. Laundry, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side, and WiFi reaches the sites. Pets are welcome. The park is a stopover rather than a resort, and it is honest about that. What it offers is a clean full-hookup site with straightforward highway access in a genuinely rural Montana setting — a small agricultural community on the Yellowstone River rather than a strip of interstate frontage. On-site facilities stay deliberately simple: laundry, restrooms, hot showers, and site WiFi are what an overnight guest actually uses, and the pull-through sites mean you can stop for a night without unhitching. Hiking, biking, and birding run from the area. Reed Point sits in Stillwater County, 60 miles west of Billings and 50 miles east of Livingston, which makes it a natural midpoint on Montana's most traveled interstate corridor. The Yellowstone River carries excellent fishing, and the Absaroka Range forms the southern skyline. Yellowstone National Park is within reach via Livingston and Paradise Valley. The park serves the Montana travel season, with summer bringing the heaviest I-90 traffic and Yellowstone-bound visitors. With 13 sites, arriving late in the day during July and August is a gamble — reserve ahead.

from $67/night

Windy Waters at Alcova

18 RV Sites

Windy Waters at Alcova in Alcova, WY, offers 18 full-hookup back-in RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 60 feet. Every site is an oversized 30/50-amp full-hookup back-in carrying water, sewer, and electric with site-delivered WiFi and a picnic table. The park is gated and rated big rig friendly, and at 60 feet the oversized sites take a long coach comfortably. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, and a dump station cover the essentials. Pets are welcome, with a dog park. Walking trails run the property with desert and mountain views, and the fishing is the reason people come — Grey Reef is a blue ribbon fishery, with fly fishing, boating, kayaking, hiking, and birding all close. Fremont Canyon, the Miracle Mile, the Cottonwood Creek Dinosaur Trail, and Independence Rock are all within range. Alcova sits at 21500 Kortes Road alongside the red sandstone bluffs of Alcova Reservoir in Natrona County, where the North Platte's impoundment created 2,470 acres of water and 117 miles of shoreline in the high Wyoming desert. Rates and availability are on the booking page. Fly fishing season on Grey Reef fills the park — reserve well ahead.

from $50/night

Sun Outdoors Yellowstone North

1 Apartment

Sun Outdoors Yellowstone North in Gardiner, MT, offers RV sites with full hookups alongside cabins and 1 apartment. If you booked here before, note the name change: Rocky Mountain RV Park + Cabins is now Sun Outdoors Yellowstone North. Contact the park for site count, amp service, and maximum rig length, since those specifics aren't published here. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, a clubhouse, and WiFi cover the practical side. Pets are welcome, with a dog park. Corn hole, live music, picnicking, hiking, birding, and hot springs access fill the grounds and the country around them. The location is close to unmatched in the national park system. The park sits a quarter mile from the Roosevelt Arch — the stone gateway millions of Yellowstone visitors have passed through since 1903 — and steps from the North Entrance, the only one open to wheeled traffic year-round. Mammoth Hot Springs is five miles in, and the Lamar Valley's wolf and bison country opens beyond it. Rates for sites, cabins, and the apartment are on the booking page. Park season books months ahead; call to confirm your rig's fit.

from $224/night

Osen's RV Park

5 RV Sites, 1 Cabin

Osen's RV Park in Livingston, MT, offers 5 full-hookup RV sites and 1 cabin, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 40 feet. Sites come in two categories, water-and-electric back-in 30/50-amp and full-hookup pull-thru 30/50-amp, carrying water, sewer, and electric. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, a dump station, a community fire pit, recycling, and a cabin cover the rest. Pets are welcome, with a dog park and a playground. Basketball and birding fill the grounds, and at five sites the park is quiet by default. Livingston sits along the Yellowstone River in the shadow of the Absaroka-Beartooth range, with Yellowstone National Park fifty miles south through the Paradise Valley — one of the most spectacular valley drives in the American West, and one of the great trout rivers anywhere. Rates for sites and the cabin are on the booking page. Five sites in Livingston during park season means booking as far ahead as they'll allow.

from $58/night

Yellowstone Hot Springs Resort

39 RV Sites, 4 Cabins, 18 Tent Sites, 5 Hotel Rooms

Yellowstone Hot Springs Resort in Gardiner, Montana, offers 39 RV sites, nine cabin and hotel-room units, and 18 tent sites eight miles north of Yellowstone's North Entrance, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 40 feet behind a gated entrance. Three mineral spring pools of graduated temperature are the reason to book. Thirty-nine sites run in full-hookup and electric-only categories carrying 20, 30, and 50-amp, sized to 40 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, and site WiFi. The electric-only option suits self-contained rigs at a lower rate. Nine cabins and hotel rooms and 18 tent sites round out the accommodations. A laundry, dump station, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side, with a gated entrance controlling access. The hot springs define the property. Three mineral pools of graduated temperature — a cold plunge, a 100-degree pool, and a 106-degree pool — are fed continuously by water drawn straight from the earth, chemical-free. An outdoor pool, fitness center, clubhouse, and pavilion round out the amenities, with hiking, biking, birding, and picnicking from the area and skiing and a golf course nearby. Pets are welcome. Gardiner sits at the south end of Paradise Valley where the Yellowstone River emerges from the mountains with the Absaroka Range rising on both flanks — one of the most strategically positioned properties in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, eight miles from the park's only year-round entrance. Summer is decisively the season, with the springs drawing guests year-round. Reserve well ahead for June through September.

from $32/night

Bearded Buffalo Resort

Two miles from the entrance to Custer State Park in Custer, South Dakota—in the heart of the Black Hills where the granite dome geology, the open-range bison herd of nearly 1,400 animals in Custer State Park, and the concentrated national monument and cave heritage that positions Custer County as the most historically significant single county in South Dakota—Bearded Buffalo Resort provides 35 full hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service, four spacious cabin rentals with full kitchens and private bathrooms, a general store, a turf play area with lawn games, and the Black Hills access that Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse Memorial, Jewel Cave, Wind Cave, and the 1880 Train make available within a radius that no South Dakota campground can match more completely than the Custer area concentration. The two-mile Custer State Park proximity and the four-cabin full-kitchen configuration define the resort's appeal for the family group that wants both the Black Hills outdoor access and the enclosed accommodation comfort. Thirty-five full hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp electric, water, and sewer in daily and seasonal configurations serve the RV camping market. Four cabin rentals—each with air conditioning, WiFi, a full kitchen, private bathroom, in-unit washer and dryer, two-vehicle parking, and provided linens and towels—provide the complete domestic setup for families or groups who want the Black Hills base camp in an enclosed space that the South Dakota weather system makes reliably practical from the Dakotas' spring to fall. A general store stocked with supplies and gifts serves the daily practical needs. A turf play area with lawn games provides the outdoor recreation for the youngest visitors. Dog park, pickleball courts, and a fire pit planned as additions will expand the recreation and social gathering options. The pet-friendly policy accommodates the canine travelers. Custer State Park's 71,000 acres contain the most ecologically diverse wildlife habitat in South Dakota's Black Hills managed for public recreation: the nearly 1,400-animal bison herd that roams the park's open-range interior grasslands in the largest publicly owned bison herd in the United States, the Prairie Dog Town that its anthropomorphic inhabitants populate in the specific social complexity that prairie dog colonies maintain in concentrated surface display, and the Needles Highway and Wildlife Loop Road scenic drives that produce the granite spire and wildlife encounter experience within a single state park that most national parks spread across hundreds of miles. Mount Rushmore National Memorial—30 minutes north—provides the presidential sculptural monument that Gutzon Borglum's 14-year carving project produced from 1927 to 1941, with the evening lighting ceremony from Memorial Day through Labor Day that illuminates the 60-foot faces in the context of an outdoor patriotic program. The Crazy Horse Memorial—continuing in construction since 1948 under the Ziolkowski family's direction as the world's largest mountain carving in progress—provides the specific counterpoint to Rushmore's presidential theme in the Lakota warrior's Korczak Ziolkowski-designed monument to Indigenous heritage. Jewel Cave National Monument's 212 miles of mapped passages make it the world's third-longest known cave system, with guided tours of its boxwork calcite crystal formations providing the most geologically specific cave tour in the Black Hills. Bearded Buffalo Resort is open seasonally through the Black Hills' camping calendar. Summer from Memorial Day through Labor Day fills the Custer area to capacity. The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in August draws 700,000-plus riders to the Black Hills region annually—the single largest campground demand event in South Dakota. Reserve the cabin or hookup site well in advance for summer season, plan the Wildlife Loop Road bison drive at dawn, and let Custer County's two-mile park proximity earn the Black Hills concentration that South Dakota's most monument-dense corner genuinely delivers.