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American Prairie Antelope Creek Campground

1. American Prairie Antelope Creek Campground

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19mi from Hays · 26 sites · Tents, RVs, Lodging

Antelope Creek Campground sits just off Highway 191 between mile markers 96 and 97. While it is more accessible than other remote properties—you can reach us in a standard passenger car and park right by the bathhouse—the wilderness feels just as close. You can watch the local prairie dogs right from your lawn chair. This is also one of the premier stargazing locations in Montana. With minimal light pollution and wide-open horizons, the Milky Way is brilliantly visible on clear nights, and meteor showers put on a spectacular show. Wildlife & Exploration In the spring, sage grouse leks come alive within a short walk of the camp. Our permanent residents, the prairie dogs, provide a constant soundtrack to the plains. For those looking to explore, the Antelope Creek Wilderness Study Area is accessible through a pedestrian gate just west of the walk-in tent sites, offering coulees, ponderosa pines, and total solitude in every direction. The Surrounding Area Our "Mars Vista" point sits near the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, offering views toward the towns of Hays and Lodgepole, as well as Mission Canyon in the Little Rocky Mountains. If you need supplies, the town of Malta is just 20 minutes away and has everything you might have forgotten to pack.

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American Prairie Lewis And Clark Hut

2. American Prairie Lewis And Clark Hut

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48mi from Hays · 1 site

For generations, this stretch of land where the Judith River empties into the Missouri has been a gathering place — for Indigenous peoples, for the Corps of Discovery, for ranchers and explorers who followed. It still draws people to it in a way that's hard to explain until you're standing at the confluence looking upstream. American Prairie has built three small huts here — each distinct, each anchored to a chapter of this place's story. They're comfortable without being fancy. The design keeps your attention outside, where it belongs. The surrounding landscape rewards curiosity: the Big Sag, a vast open depression visible from the property; miles of biking and hiking roads; Judith Landing State Park downstream; and the White Cliffs section of the Wild and Scenic Missouri River Breaks — one of the most dramatic landscapes in Montana — accessible by river float. In September and October, bull elk gather in the river bottoms. Their bugles carry at dawn. Cows move through the cottonwood corridors. It's one of the best elk viewing opportunities in the region.

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Recent reviews from the Hipcamp community

Linda

2 weeks ago

With pets

3 nights at American Prairie Lewis And Clark Hut

This was our sixth visit to the American Prairie, in what has become a spring tradition. We fretted about the roads until the last minute, but pulled the trigger when Anna from AP texted to say the road to the Lewis & Clark Hut was passable. Yep, from Winifred in, it was a little rutty, squirrely and slippery … but SO worth the effort. The previous tenants could have left it a little cleaner (sweep and mop, people!), but the “hut” was in good shape. We had a few rain showers, but mostly great weather — stunning sunsets, and sunrises with an amazing dawn chorus of birds. In three days, we tallied 37 species of birds, mule deer, beaver, coyotes, elk and the perfect bunch of horses to complete the western scene. Yes, you can see the Judith Landing bridge from the Lewis & Clark Hut, and a couple of ranch yard lights at night, but at the Meyers Family Huts, you genuinely feel away from the crazy world. It’s as far back in time as you can travel in a Chevy Silverado.

American Prairie Antelope Creek Campground

Tim

2 weeks ago

With pets

2 nights at American Prairie Antelope Creek Campground

I love the simplicity of the cabins. sitting there watching the sun go down in front of a nice crackling campfire, listening to the sounds of night on the prairie. always enjoyable, but especially with the panoramic views of the prairie provided at the antelope campground.

Nedra

2 weeks ago

1 night at American Prairie Antelope Creek Campground

Our time at American Prairie's Antelope Creek was SO ENJOYABLE! The hosts are obviously keeping the place up so well and the landscape was unforgettable.