Montana Creek Campground — Hotel in Alaska

Our planned stop at Three Bears Trapper Creek Inn & RV Park was a bust—their large pull-throughs were closed due to sewer issues—but they recommended Montana Creek Campground about 20 miles south. We called, and they told us to come on in. Located just off the Parks Highway/AK-3, the friendly campground manager gave us a map of the dry-camping sites that were available, including a few in the tent section that could handle our 40’ fifth wheel and told us to pick a spot. We walked the grounds and chose back-in site 13 in the tent area, which was more than long enough for our rig and F450—we even got to put the back patio down. We needed to top off our water tank, but the spigot had weak pressure, so the fill took a while. Afterward, we backed up in the large parking lot and headed to our site. We had 2 bars LTE on Verizon and 1 bar roaming on T-Mobile. The site had a picnic table, fire pit, and a nice stand-up grill. The campsites on the north side have 30 AMP but no water. Toward the back of the campground are more wooded pull-through and back-in dry-camping sites—some well spaced with privacy from shrubbery—but this area isn’t tall-rig friendly. The campground filled up over the weekend with locals from the Anchorage area. The same office also registers campers for the Montana Creek Recreation Site across the street, which is essentially a back-in parking lot for smaller rigs. Overall, we really enjoyed our stay—especially with the chance to get in some...

My family and I are all born and raised Alaskan's we have travelled extensively throughout the state and stayed at many campgrounds. The Montana Creek Campground, specifically the Creekside Campsites (we booked 69 and 70) were absolutely awful. We got in late that night to find the "campground" is in fact a small parking lot area right next to the road, without any service, and no creekside view whatsoever. There was one porta potty for the 8-10 sites. The pictures are complete false advertising, and at 40$ a night for a dry site, I was sorely dissappointed. My partner and I left immediately and found a great spot by sheep creek river for free. I spoke with a lovely employee named Karen who did her best to help us, she stated that she spoke to the owner who did not want to refund any money, but did offer a gift card for a future stay, I politely informed them we would never be staying at their campground again. I truly hope anyone who is considering booking a site reads this review, and decides to...

We stayed for one night in July 2018 in a truck with camper on it. It is located right on the highway. They do have a small office to check in. They only offered electrical no water or sewer. Cost was 50 us. A bit pricey. Washrooms were portable potties. The sites with electrical were close to each other and had a lack of trees but they did have grass around them. If you can go off grid there were lots of spots in the trees which offered more privacy and quiet. They will be very shady though. The site is next to a river. There is a large rock flood barrier preventing you from views of the river. You can walk over the barrier in a few spots and access the river for fishing when open. Each site had a fire pit but no free wood. It was raining when we visited so the bugs were out. Because we are self sustainable I would consider staying here again due to convenience to the road, river and presence of trees. But I would warn others not to stay here for the cost and lack of...