Apgar Campground — Hotel in West Glacier

The campground is located inside Glacier National Park. Park entry is not included in the campground rental. After you enter at the West Entrance there eventually is a 3 way stop. The campground is on the left. This is the 3 way stop where the Rangers will check for your timed entrance. Cell service was very bad. I think texts were going. But trying to get a timed entrance from the campground was impossible for me. Luckily we had made 2 different entrance times before we got to camp.

We were so lucky to get a reservation for Apgar Campground. We stayed at site A6 which was a pull through site on the left side of the road. This is importantto note because there is a rule that you cannot back your trailer in a different direction. When you read that rule that says the door faces the road, they are trying to tell you that you have to pull the trailer through the spot in the direction of travel. Your camp door will be facing what ever side you are camped on. We had a small teardrop trailer on this trip with doors on both sides. If we had a trailer with the door on the right side only I would have made sure to reserve a site on the right side of the road for privacy. Hope that makes sense. The site had a fire ring and picnic table. No burn ban when we visited July 20-24, 2025. Rained 3 of the 4 days we stayed which was great to keep the mosquitoes away, didn't see one until the very last evening and not many at that. A6 was about 2 spots away from the restrooms. Men/Women. Women had 2 stalls of flushing toilets and 2 sinks. No hand soap. No paper towels but there was an air dryer. Well lit. Dumpster and bear box were right outside the restroom on the women's side. The showers were near site A26. The building has 3 private locking rooms eaxh with a shower and small bench. The floors are very dirty because everyone wears their shower shoes inside to shower. Also makes the entire floor wet. There was a small shelf to set your soaps etc on and a mirror. Also a hook to hang your towel in the shower are and a hook to hang you bag in the get dressed area. There was a designated handicap restroom.

I'm sure you've already read that there are only 3 showers for all 4 loops of the campground. I believe the Ranger said 200 sites when full 1,000 people. Showers are open 24 hours a day and the hot water was plentiful. You just stand in line and wait your turn. We timed it right where we were in line with 4-5 people ahead of us eacg time. Maybe waiting 30 minutes. On our first shower I apologize to anyone waiting behind my teenage son. I guess I didn't realize i had to tell him specifically to take a quick shower so those waiting could have their turn. I got back to camp where he should have beat me and was waiting for him! I promise he did much better the next shower. Humble apologies! There is another set of restrooms right next to the shower building. Trailer dump and grey water dump was up front near the ranger station. Water was potable and there were several hand pumps dispersed in Loop A. If you walk out of Loop A there is a small trail by the Ranger Station that pops you out to the road where you can cross the 2 way street and connect to another short trail in the parking lot to gain access to the lake. Lots of people on paddleboard, kayaks and swimming. The beach is rocky so water shoes are a must. Water was cool and refreshing but not too cold to scare you out of the water. On the beach if you look to your left you can see the Apgar Village boat dock not too far in the distance. Very quiet campground. With people getting up early to get in to the park ahead of the timed entry that begins at 7am, I was never disturbed by them. The Rangers are available from 8am to 8pm I believe. There is a process posted at the entrance to the campground if you are a...

Very well laid-out campground. Each site has a curved driveway with a picnic table, fire pit and tent area deeper in the site. Getting a first-come-first-serve site is a difficult process. A paper tag attached to the site number's post lists the day the current user intends to leave. Each morning, rangers go through the park and pull the tags off sites that will be open later that day. Newcomers must drive around the campground looking for posts with no dates attached (indicating the current user plans to leave that day), and then wait for the current user to be up and moving around so you can ask them if anyone else has already claimed that site. The current users have until 10:00 AM to decide to stay another day and until noon to leave. Arrive early enough to claim a site by paying for it, placing your tag on the site number post and leaving a chair or something else to look like the site is claimed. Then, plan to do something else until noon while the current user packs up. We had to ask a ranger for help because the process was too confusing to understand after the first person we spoke with tried to explain it.

The bathrooms on loop B did not have any soap dispensers. The bathrooms near the showers, on loop A, did have soap. The shower house has three shower rooms and we found that there were not many people in line in the morning, no line at all in the early afternoon, and a long line of at least 10 people at 10:00 PM. Bring a stool to sit on while waiting in line if you shower at night.

The campground was quiet unless a generator was running. Even the traffic on nearby Going-to-the-Sun Road was quiet, other than at 5:38 AM when it sounded like a short rush hour of traffic arriving in the park before 6:00 AM.

Overall, we had a great experience at Apgar Campground and recommend it for anyone who can risk not getting a...

Me and my partner recently stayed at Apgar for a week tent camping! We came at the end of the season on purpose (less crowded) and the fall foliage was so vibrant & AMAZING!! With it being the end of the season, the regular bathrooms and shower got shut down half way through our stay. They had a vault toilet that was open and it was still nice and clean. The shower was free and surprisingly very nice for a campground shower. Apgar village is within walking distance & has just about everything you’d need, including regular bathrooms that are open! The lake is right next to the campground as well and a great place to hangout on the beach! We had to switch camp sights half way through our week and both sights were great! They all come with a campfire ring and picnic table. I’ve definitely been to more private sights but I would say you still have a good chunk in between you and your neighbors, it didn’t bother us at all. Plenty of trash, recycling & food storage boxes. If I HAD to say one bad thing about our experience at Apgar would be the spiders haha! Of course that comes with the territory, you’re camping! But seriously, there’s a lot of spiders, in October at least. So for those of you who are creeped out by that sort of thing, don’t leave any of your stuff...