We enjoyed our weekend camping trip to Burke’s outpost.
We rented the main site as well as the tent site so that we would have the place to ourselves (From reading the reviews, I believe there used to be 3 listings but there is only 2 now which avoids a lot of confusion, which I appreciated!)
Tad met us at the camp the night we arrived and answered our questions. He was very nice and said he would be down the road should we need him, but we didn’t.
We had 3 vehicles, one of which is a truck/5th wheel that is 45’ long. The 5th wheel we backed in down the driveway so we didn’t have to worry about trying to turn around. We had plenty of room to spread out for our tenters and for the dogs and kids to play. We loved having an off leash camp site for our 5 month old puppy’s first camping trip so he could learn all about camping. With the trailer to our backs and the rushing water to the front we barely noticed the traffic on the road above us.
We are in the middle of fire season and there is a burn ban in effect so we used our propane firepit but the huge firepit at the site looks like it would be epic to use when it’s safe. We were a little disappointed by the amount of broken glass around having 3 dogs and 2 kids with us, so we spent a lot of time picking up the bigger sharp pieces but never had any injuries. The site was pretty clean, the porta potty was the cleanest we’ve ever seen and was very convenient for our tenters. We brought an extension cord with us to hook the trailer up to the power and Tad already had extra long hoses hooked up so we were able to use that and didn’t need ours.
Some notes for future campers:
The terrain is very gravely. Don’t expect to be able to drive tent stakes into the ground very well if at all.
There isn’t cell service at the camp which is nice but should you need it, you can get cell service down the road heading back to Wallace pretty easily.
The creek is not very accessible in that it’s a few feet down and is accessed by slippery rocky shores so bring some good water/ hiking sandals. There are a few places where it’s deep enough for the kids to really get wet. It was dang cold (which was to be expected of course) but our kiddos enjoyed it. Keep in mind our kids were around 11 years old though. Our golden retriever, who is 8, struggled with the current and the rocks when trying to play in the water with the kids. Overall, I don’t think the site would be appropriate for little kids that want to play in the water.
Having an easily accessible private site with power, water, and creek to play in is a great find though… we all agreed we would be back!