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Big Springs Warming Hut

Big Springs Warming Hut
Big Springs Warming Hut
BIG SPRINGS WARMING HUT
Big Springs Warming Hut
BIG SPRINGS WARMING HUT

About Big Springs Warming Hut

Big Springs Warming Hut is located 22 miles south of West Yellowstone, Montana in beautiful Island Park, Idaho at an approximate elevation of 6,300 feet. Visitors love Island Park for its world-class fishing and outstanding scenery and wildlife viewing opportunities.

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2026 (Current year)

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Currently closed - Opens on May 29

Reviews (8)

What Guests Are Saying

The Big Springs Warming Hut boasts a fantastic location and is noted for its cleanliness. Visitors appreciate the well-maintained facilities, contributing to an enjoyable experience. Overall, it offers a pleasant environment for guests.

Review Summary

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Trent M

June 14, 2025

5

Great location. Very clean.

Zak K

June 27, 2022

5

Camp site was very clean. Access to the warming hut was awesome. The outhouse was very clean. Close access atv trails. We enjoyed going up the road to Big Springs. The camp hosts were awesome.

Micah R

August 18, 2021

1

If you’re a single person or 2 people camping, this is not the place for you. I imagined it was a group camping spot when I booked. It’s not. Full stop do not book this unless you’re an RV or coming with a large group. It’s 2 miles from the nearest major road, and out in the thick forest. My partner and I ended up dragging our tent into the “warming hut” and sleeping there. (Among the rats and raccoons, but safe from bears and coyotes which we could hear). Ultimately we tied the doors closed and had very little sleep. The next morning two men named Bob came to tear down the bathrooms while we were staying. I ultimately abandoned camp a day early and opted for a hotel south of Yellowstone. Speaking of, this is 22 mins outside of west entrance, but still over an hour to anything worth seeing. Adds 2 hours of drive time for every day you’re in the park. ** do not book ** No bathrooms, no water, no lighting, no people. Yikes.

Leonilo T

July 21, 2021

1

Grrrr,🤨 it's a rip off!!! There's not a single soul there when we arrived on 7/13/21 and there were no signs to help us find our site. It looked liked an abandoned crime scene complete with a yellow police tape wrapped around the bathroom and office hut. We couldn't find our reserved site GSI so we decided to leave the area and look for another RV park. The website ad is misleading. I will never reserve this campsite again. I demand a refund!!!😰😰😰

Amanda S

June 28, 2021

1

Wasn’t open when we arrived so we had to find elsewhere to sleep

Wayne H

August 21, 2020

3

We we told last year that we would have on site water this year but it did not happen hopefully last year.

David J

July 23, 2020

3

When you are paying $308 for 3 nights and it says you have electricity you expect the box to be unlocked. It wasn’t! Never could get ahold of anyone to unlock it. Emailed recreation.gov when we got home they gave me a number for warming hut, warming hut number said recreation.gov would need to be the ones who give any type of refund, have now emailed recreation.gov again will see what they do! It takes forever to get any response, and good luck calling their phone number, was on hold 15 minutes, got disconnected, called again after a 45 minute wait gave up. Paying $308 for no electricity is crazy. No running water, which we knew ahead of time, but if you are paying more than $100 a night you should have the electricity which it states it has!!!

Anonymous

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Google Maps

Location Big Springs Warming Hut

Address:
Big Springs Loop Road
Island Park, ID, 83429
United States

Latitude & Longitude: 44.485 / -111.3

Elevation: 1950 feet

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Please bring your own drinking water

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Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pests in our national forests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.

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