The best campgrounds near Sun River, Montana with swimming

Looking to dive into a camping adventure near Sun River, Montana? With over 195 options available on Hipcamp, you're sure to find the perfect spot to pitch your tent or park your RV. If swimming is your activity of choice, you're in luck. Many of the top campsites in the area offer refreshing swimming opportunities. Check out Idyllic Montana Setting, with 17 rave reviews, or Stone Lodge Pastures, boasting 12 enthusiastic reviews. Buck's Paradise, another popular option, has received 10 glowing reviews. And with amenities like potable water, pet-friendly policies, and showers, you'll have everything you need to make your camping experience a memorable one. So pack your swimsuit and get ready to enjoy the great outdoors!

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Top-rated campgrounds

Looking to dive into a camping adventure near Sun River, Montana? With over 195 options available on Hipcamp, you're sure to find the perfect spot to pitch your tent or park your RV. If swimming is your activity of choice, you're in luck. Many of the top campsites in the area offer refreshing swimming opportunities. Check out Idyllic Montana Setting, with 17 rave reviews, or Stone Lodge Pastures, boasting 12 enthusiastic reviews. Buck's Paradise, another popular option, has received 10 glowing reviews. And with amenities like potable water, pet-friendly policies, and showers, you'll have everything you need to make your camping experience a memorable one. So pack your swimsuit and get ready to enjoy the great outdoors!

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Top-rated campgrounds

1. Hardda Farm Site

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4.2mi from Sun River · 1 site · Tent, RV · Fort Shaw, MT

Hardda Farm is our family homestead and flower farm. We raise animals, vegetables and flowers using regenerative agriculture practices. You may meet our family dairy cow, our milk & wool sheep, and a variety of poultry and waterfowl. We are very near the Sun River and less than an hour’s drive to the Missouri River or the Rocky Mountain front. We enjoy fly-fishing, climbing, and hiking and are happy to recommend some great spots.

2. The Mountaintop Disconnect

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42mi from Sun River · 1 site · Lodging · Wolf Creek, MT

We don't know much about the history of our property but we can tell you that we plan on keeping it forever. It has absurdly good views at the top and is the perfect amount of remote and accessible for us.Learn more about this land:The property begins at the base of a small mountain and goes straight to the 6000' peak (and a little past). Great views, silent surroundings. You will very much be in the middle of nowhere. Enjoy it. There is a natural spring on the property from which you may get your water. Please no relieving yourself within 100 feet of the spring or uphill from it.

3. Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest

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421 sites · Alberton, Montana

It is only right that the land named after some of America’s raddest explorers would be totally epic! Covering a whopping seven mountain ranges, Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest is your front door to adventure in Montana. If winter is your happy place, then come make turns at Silver Crest Ski Area, or snowshoe trails through peaceful forests. In the summer, day trippers can roam among prairielands and flowering cacti on the Sulphur Springs Trail, while offroaders and bikers and zip down the OHV trails. Stay in an epic lookout tower on top of the Castle Mountains, or enjoy a remote campsite all to yourself. However you choose to spend your time at Lewis and Clark, you’ll find yourself thanking these two OG adventurers for discovering such an incredible place!

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Public campgrounds near Sun River

Logging Creek Campground

45mi from Sun River · 28 sites · in Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest

Home Gulch Campground

47mi from Sun River · 15 sites · in Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest

Monument Peak Lookout

47mi from Sun River · 1 site · in Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest

Double Falls Campground

47mi from Sun River · 4 sites · in Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest

Sun Canyon L&C Campground

48mi from Sun River · 1 site · in Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest

Mortimer Gulch Campground

49mi from Sun River · 27 sites · Tents, RVs · in Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest

Stories from the community

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Michael

September 2025

19 ft campervan

Weekend Trip to Hardda Farm Site

Exactly as advertised. This is a great stop if heading north to the GNP area. We loved it.

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Victoria

September 2025

Tent

1 night at Hardda Farm Site

The land looked very nice, but I was only there for a few hours to sleep before leaving again. Seemed great, but didn’t get to spend a lot of time there

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Megan

September 2025

Tent

With kids

1 night at Hardda Farm Site

Elicia and her family were wonderful and very welcoming! My two young sons (2 & 4) and I were passing through while on an extended road trip just after my husband deployed. I felt very safe, and my boys loved interacting with the farm animals! I hope we have another opportunity to pass through, so we can stay again!

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Nathan

September 2025

Tent

1 night at Hardda Farm Site

Was awesome!!! So peaceful and pretty. Very nice people that own the property as well! Definitely would go back!

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Andrea

July 2025

Tent

Weekend Trip to Hardda Farm Site

This was a great place for a night’s stopover on my way across the country. Hosts were super nice and pleasant to chat with. I ordered firewood and they had paper and matches to get it started which was a nice touch.

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Quentin

July 2025

Tent

With kids

1 night at Hardda Farm Site

We stopped and set up two tents. It was a great time and the hosts were friendly. Plenty of space, water on site, and compost toilet worked great. overall good experience.

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Kris

May 2025

16 ft car

With pets

1 night at Hardda Farm Site

Elicia made me feel right at home. The camp is in historic Fort Shaw. The fort is in walking distance as is the military cemetery. Beautiful countryside and the Sun River is close by. Right down the road is Big Sky Deli in Vaughn with all kinds of meats, cheeses, pastries, kombucha and provisions. I love the sounds of the farm animals and so did my pooch! :) I would definitely stay here again!

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Rebekah

March 2025

Tent

With pets

3 nights at Hardda Farm Site

We loved camping here and would absolutely come back! Elicia was so easy to work with (especially for being on short notice!) and went above and beyond to make sure we had everything we needed. Quite a nice location, the outhouse was great, and the farm animal sounds were a fun bonus. Our family 100% recommends this spot!