Playground
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Keep the little ones happy at campgrounds and RV parks with playgrounds. Featuring swings, slides, and climbing structures, these play areas provide safe and enjoyable spaces for children to burn off energy and make new friends.
RV parks and campgrounds with Playground near Cardwell, Montana.
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Ekstroms Stage Station
26 RV Sites, 3 Cabins, 4 Tent Sites
Where Rock Creek gathers itself before meeting the Clark Fork River at a confluence that every Montana fly fisherman knows by heart, Ekstrom's Stage Station has occupied its spot in Clinton, Montana, for long enough to feel genuinely woven into the landscape. Located just 20 minutes east of Missoula along I-90, the campground sits adjacent to Rock Creek—a stream carrying a Blue Ribbon trout designation from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks that brings dedicated anglers from across the country to work its riffles and pools. Two famous bighorn sheep herds are resident to the Rock Creek canyon, visible from the streamside corridor and adding a wildlife dimension that distinguishes the station from standard highway campgrounds. Accommodation options at Ekstrom's range well beyond the typical RV park offering: full hookup sites with 50/30/20-amp electrical service, tent and van camping spots, two rustic cabins, two tiny houses, and a historic hundred-year-old schoolhouse serve the range of travelers who find their way to this wooded tributary. Hot showers, free Wi-Fi, laundry facilities, and a dump station cover the practical infrastructure, while basketball and volleyball courts alongside a playground serve families with active children. The grounds occupy a large grassy field surrounded by tall pines, with sites level, quiet, and well-spaced for the kind of restorative stay that good fly fishing demands the night before. Rock Creek's Blue Ribbon designation reflects an exceptional trout fishery—clear, cold water over a cobble-and-gravel bottom supporting strong brown and rainbow trout populations that rise readily to dry flies on summer evenings. Fishing access begins effectively at the campground and extends for miles upstream into some of Montana's most productive wild trout water, with the Clark Fork confluence adding additional variety for those who want to swing streamers through bigger water. The on-site restaurant rounds out the experience—a dining option that campers consistently praise as a genuine highlight of staying at the station. Missoula, just 20 minutes west on I-90, provides full urban amenities in one of Montana's most culturally vibrant smaller cities—the University of Montana campus, an outdoor gear district on Higgins Avenue, a legendary farmers market, and a riverfront park system that makes the Clark Fork central to daily life downtown. The Rattlesnake Wilderness and National Recreation Area begins at the north end of Missoula and offers hiking and mountain biking through a surprisingly wild landscape minutes from the university. The Blackfoot River corridor, celebrated by Norman Maclean's novella A River Runs Through It, winds northeast from Clinton and provides additional floating and fishing opportunities that attract literary pilgrims and anglers from across the English-speaking world. The primary fishing season on Rock Creek runs from mid-spring through October, with classic summer dry-fly conditions peaking in late June and July when caddis and PMD hatches bring trout consistently to the surface during evening hours. Fall brings lower angling pressure, spectacular larch and cottonwood color in the creek corridor, and brown trout entering pre-spawn feeding mode that produces some of the year's largest fish. The campground operates through the warm season—contact the station directly to confirm current availability and any reservation requirements, particularly during peak summer fishing weeks when demand for Rock Creek access reliably outstrips available sites.
from $40/night
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The Longhorn Ranch Lodge & RV Resort
46 RV Sites, 7 Tent Sites, 5 Lodges
In Dubois, Wyoming—at the eastern gateway of the Wind River Canyon where US Highway 26/287 threads through the Absaroka Range and the painted badlands of the Dubois basin before climbing to Togwotee Pass and the descent toward Grand Teton National Park—Longhorn Ranch Lodge & RV Resort sits with the Painted Hills' vermillion and ochre badlands to the north and Whiskey Mountain in the Wind River Range rising to the south, offering full hookup RV sites, lodge accommodations, a hot tub and sauna, horse pens for equestrian travelers, bike rentals, and a setting of raw Wyoming landscape beauty that makes Dubois itself a destination rather than simply a waypoint on the Yellowstone circuit. For travelers who want the Wind River country's extraordinary geology, wildlife, and mountain environment without the crowds of the national parks, Longhorn Ranch delivers. Full hookup RV sites with big-rig accommodations sit alongside the lodge's guest rooms in a property with a creek or stream on the grounds that creates the natural soundscape of the high Wyoming valley. Horse pens serve the equestrian community that uses the Dubois area as a base for backcountry trail riding in the Shoshone National Forest and the Fitzpatrick Wilderness, and the bike rentals support the cycling guests who want to explore the Wind River Canyon's dramatic highway corridor on two wheels. A laundry, clean bathrooms and showers, a playground, dog park, and general store provide the practical amenity infrastructure, and the hot tub and sauna offer the restorative option that the Wyoming mountain climate makes particularly welcome. Dubois sits at 6,917 feet in Fremont County at the confluence of the Wind River and Horse Creek, in the high desert basin where the geology tells one of Wyoming's most visible stories—the badlands north of town expose the same volcanic and sedimentary strata that color the landscape at Bryce Canyon and the Painted Desert, creating the pink, red, white, and yellow banding in the cliffs that gives the Painted Hills their name. The town's character as a working Western ranching and outfitting community, combined with its position on the Yellowstone-Teton circuit, creates the authentic Wyoming atmosphere that distinguishes Dubois from the resort-town alternatives in the region. Yellowstone National Park's east entrance at Sylvan Pass is approximately 65 miles west via Togwotee Pass, a mountain route that crosses the Continental Divide at 9,658 feet through spectacular alpine scenery and is consistently ranked among Wyoming's most beautiful highways. Grand Teton National Park and Jackson Hole lie approximately 85 miles southwest, with the Tetons visible from Togwotee Pass on clear days in the dramatic silhouette that makes the approach from the east one of the finest introductions to a mountain landscape in the American West. The National Bighorn Sheep Center in Dubois—the interpretive museum dedicated to the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep that winter on Whiskey Mountain in the largest concentration of bighorns in the lower 48 states—provides the wildlife education that contextualizes the sheep viewing opportunities immediately adjacent to town. Longhorn Ranch operates seasonally in Dubois's high-altitude Wyoming climate, with the summer and early fall season from June through October the primary operating window when the mountain passes are open and the national park circuit is accessible. The Whiskey Mountain bighorn sheep viewing in late fall and winter is exceptional and occasionally extends the Dubois season for wildlife-focused visitors willing to navigate the mountain roads. Reserve your site or lodge room at Longhorn Ranch and let Dubois's painted badlands, the Wind River Range, and the Wyoming landscape between Yellowstone and the Tetons show you what most travelers miss by driving through without stopping.
from $30/night
