About Birch Creek Cabin
Activities & Attractions
Nearby
Hiking
Skiing
Snowmobile
Year-round
Hiking
Winter
Skiing
Snowmobile
Seasonal information
2026 Season availability
Open year round
This campground is open year round, providing flexibility for your stay.
Campground Amenities
Most popular amenities
RV Utilities and Hookups
- Power Service
Cooking and Fire
- Firewood Available
Parking and Transport
- Parking
001, Loop: AREA BIRCH CREEK CABIN
- 4 guests
Site Details
Reviews (88)
What Guests Are Saying
Birch Creek Cabin is highly praised for its cleanliness, cozy atmosphere, and excellent location for outdoor activities, including kid-friendly hiking and beautiful views. Guests appreciate the presence of electricity and amenities like wood stoves and thoughtful additions, making it a comfortable retreat. Some minor issues were reported, such as occasional mouse sightings and difficulties with water access, but these did not significantly detract from the overall positive experience.
What Guests Are Saying
Birch Creek Cabin is highly praised for its cleanliness, cozy atmosphere, and excellent location for outdoor activities, including kid-friendly hiking and beautiful views. Guests appreciate the presence of electricity and amenities like wood stoves and thoughtful additions, making it a comfortable retreat. Some minor issues were reported, such as occasional mouse sightings and difficulties with water access, but these did not significantly detract from the overall positive experience.
Review Summary
Robert P
VerifiedOctober 2, 2021 • Stayed at: 001, Loop: AREA BIRCH CREEK CABIN
RENT NOW! Price increase and MISLED about cabin!
Price: Starting next year the price is going from $20 to $65 a night + any $8 reservation fee. A HUGE jump.
Misled: In one place this cabin is stated as electric. Another "Cabin Nonelectric" although a electric cook stove is mentioned. Folks this is a FULLY ELECTRIC cabin with lights, lamp, outlets, coffee pot, stove/oven and even a full size fridge! How can this not be accurately described for over 10+ years? It even mentions propane lighting but there is NONE. Why is nobody fixing this?
The bake/broil switch on the Whirlpool unit is broke making the oven not work. A simple replacement may get the oven going again if anybody has that.
Has a sink but drains into bucket that must be emptied by hand. No water this year for some reason.
Wood heater in bedroom with wood Monarch cook stove/oven in kitchen.
2 sets of bunk beds with very NICE vinyl wrapped mattresses with raised headrests.
Many games in closet.
Nice fire pit by creek with lots of wood.
Nice trail called Birch Bender Loop Trail across bridge in front to right. Map on post on other side of road. Goes to small pond and loops behind cabin by toilet and up to CCC camp.
1 Bar Verizon 3G by CCC camp on hill. 2 Bar Verizon 4G on scrub brush hill if needed.
Only USFS location I have been at that has a flagpole. A US flag is above the fire extinguisher by front door.
Nice big porch with logs that makes you feel you are at at a real woodsy lodge.
Horse coral by toilet.
Very nice ADA vault toilet that has a cool bamboo looking covered entry for privacy.
Some ATV and vehicle traffic as there are two roads in front of the cabin. Bring some air freshener as there is a heavy cooking grease smell in the cabin.
We would stay again for SURE especially at a mere $20 a night for a fully electric cabin and wish we were closer. This is a wonderful place. Rent before the price more than TRIPLES! -- RENT NOW for $20 while you can!
Robert P
VerifiedOctober 2, 2021 • Stayed at: 001, Loop: AREA BIRCH CREEK CABIN
RENT NOW! Price increase and MISLED about cabin!
Price: Starting next year the price is going from $20 to $65 a night + any $8 reservation fee. A HUGE jump.
Misled: In one place this cabin is stated as electric. Another "Cabin Nonelectric" although a electric cook stove is mentioned. Folks this is a FULLY ELECTRIC cabin with lights, lamp, outlets, coffee pot, stove/oven and even a full size fridge! How can this not be accurately described for over 10+ years? It even mentions propane lighting but there is NONE. Why is nobody fixing this?
The bake/broil switch on the Whirlpool unit is broke making the oven not work. A simple replacement may get the oven going again if anybody has that.
Has a sink but drains into bucket that must be emptied by hand. No water this year for some reason.
Wood heater in bedroom with wood Monarch cook stove/oven in kitchen.
2 sets of bunk beds with very NICE vinyl wrapped mattresses with raised headrests.
Many games in closet.
Nice fire pit by creek with lots of wood.
Nice trail called Birch Bender Loop Trail across bridge in front to right. Map on post on other side of road. Goes to small pond and loops behind cabin by toilet and up to CCC camp.
1 Bar Verizon 3G by CCC camp on hill. 2 Bar Verizon 4G on scrub brush hill if needed.
Only USFS location I have been at that has a flagpole. A US flag is above the fire extinguisher by front door.
Nice big porch with logs that makes you feel you are at at a real woodsy lodge.
Horse coral by toilet.
Very nice ADA vault toilet that has a cool bamboo looking covered entry for privacy.
Some ATV and vehicle traffic as there are two roads in front of the cabin. Bring some air freshener as there is a heavy cooking grease smell in the cabin.
We would stay again for SURE especially at a mere $20 a night for a fully electric cabin and wish we were closer. This is a wonderful place. Rent before the price more than TRIPLES! -- RENT NOW for $20 while you can!
Rachel C
VerifiedNovember 22, 2021 • Stayed at: 001, Loop: AREA BIRCH CREEK CABIN
Clean and the beds were quite comfortable. The fire place was small and requires constant attention. The wind howled the whole night. The fridge and the coffee pot were a surprise but we really enjoyed it! We will do it again!
Rachel C
VerifiedNovember 22, 2021 • Stayed at: 001, Loop: AREA BIRCH CREEK CABIN
Clean and the beds were quite comfortable. The fire place was small and requires constant attention. The wind howled the whole night. The fridge and the coffee pot were a surprise but we really enjoyed it! We will do it again!
Katie B
VerifiedNovember 23, 2021 • Stayed at: 001, Loop: AREA BIRCH CREEK CABIN
Bring your own padlock for use on the back door while you are staying. We had the unsettling experience of finding the place had been unlocked by someone and left that way one afternoon while we were out. Creepy, though nothing was taken. Don't think you are the only one who knows the combination! They don't change it often enough! Mice are active. Bring your own dishes and cookware in a mouse-proof tote. Same with the food items that won't go in the fridge. Electric stove's oven does not work but top burners do. Look for pots stored in oven. Use wood stoves to keep hot water going all the time (wash water & humidity). We brought a crock pot, very useful. Top bunks are hazardous and hard to climb in and out. No siderails or handles. We brought a stepladder which helped but was still too short. Headroom between top and bottom bunks too short for adults to sit comfortably. We brought a cot, which was useful after one night braving an upper bunk. Bunks have cloth-covered box springs, and vinyl-covered foam pads on top of those. The box springs are grimy. Glad we brought brought fitted sheets and mattress pads which we used on the vinyl pads, with our sleeping bags on top. They still reeked after 2 nights. Bring drinking water. We got water to heat for washing from the creek, and went to the spring in the lower canyon to refill drinking water containers. There was a table lamp in the kitchen, which can be moved, but you might like to bring another for the bedroom. The overhead lights are bare LED or CFL bulbs, rather glaring cool spectrum for this cozy warm-colored cabin.
Katie B
VerifiedNovember 23, 2021 • Stayed at: 001, Loop: AREA BIRCH CREEK CABIN
Bring your own padlock for use on the back door while you are staying. We had the unsettling experience of finding the place had been unlocked by someone and left that way one afternoon while we were out. Creepy, though nothing was taken. Don't think you are the only one who knows the combination! They don't change it often enough! Mice are active. Bring your own dishes and cookware in a mouse-proof tote. Same with the food items that won't go in the fridge. Electric stove's oven does not work but top burners do. Look for pots stored in oven. Use wood stoves to keep hot water going all the time (wash water & humidity). We brought a crock pot, very useful. Top bunks are hazardous and hard to climb in and out. No siderails or handles. We brought a stepladder which helped but was still too short. Headroom between top and bottom bunks too short for adults to sit comfortably. We brought a cot, which was useful after one night braving an upper bunk. Bunks have cloth-covered box springs, and vinyl-covered foam pads on top of those. The box springs are grimy. Glad we brought brought fitted sheets and mattress pads which we used on the vinyl pads, with our sleeping bags on top. They still reeked after 2 nights. Bring drinking water. We got water to heat for washing from the creek, and went to the spring in the lower canyon to refill drinking water containers. There was a table lamp in the kitchen, which can be moved, but you might like to bring another for the bedroom. The overhead lights are bare LED or CFL bulbs, rather glaring cool spectrum for this cozy warm-colored cabin.
Marisa M
VerifiedDecember 8, 2021 • Stayed at: 001, Loop: AREA BIRCH CREEK CABIN
Clean!
Marisa M
VerifiedDecember 8, 2021 • Stayed at: 001, Loop: AREA BIRCH CREEK CABIN
Clean!
David C
VerifiedDecember 27, 2021 • Stayed at: 001, Loop: AREA BIRCH CREEK CABIN
Nice private cabin, in a pretty setting.
David C
VerifiedDecember 27, 2021 • Stayed at: 001, Loop: AREA BIRCH CREEK CABIN
Nice private cabin, in a pretty setting.
Location & Directions for Birch Creek Cabin
420 Barrett Street, Dillon, MT 59725 United States
Elevation: 1,957 ft
Getting There
From Dillon, travel north on I-15 for 12 mi to exit 74 at Apex. Turn west and continue about 8 mi on Birch Creek Road. Cross the bridge and take the first right onto Thief Creek Road. The cabin is about 1/4-mile to the west at Thief Creek. Dependi...
From Dillon, travel north on I-15 for 12 mi to exit 74 at Apex. Turn west and continue about 8 mi on Birch Creek Road. Cross the bridge and take the first right onto Thief Creek Road. The cabin is about 1/4-mile to the west at Thief Creek. Depending on snow conditions, guests may need to park at the Birch Creek Road turnoff and ski or snowmobile to the cabin. Maps may be purchased at the Dillon Ranger District or online http://www.fs.usda.gov/bdnf (mobile maps are available).
Highway access
The cabin is accessible via I-15, which is approximately 12 miles to the south at exit 74. Birch Creek Road provides access from I-15 to the cabin.
Policies & Rules
Cancellation policy
- Reservation fees are non-refundable. For campsites, cabins, lookouts, yurts, group sites, and similar stays, we charge a reservation service fee of $8.
- Standard cancellations usually have a $10 cancellation fee. Customers can generally cancel before the check-in date online.
- Late cancellation rules differ by stay type.
- Individual campsites: cancelling after 12:00am local time the day before arrival usually means a $10 cancellation fee plus forfeiting the first night's fee.
- Cabins, lookouts, and yurts: cancelling less than 14 days before arrival usually means a $10 cancellation fee plus forfeiting the first night's fee.
- One-night reservations: a late cancellation usually forfeits the full amount paid, up to the total original reservation cost.
- Modifications are allowed before the cut-off window, but fees depend on the change. Changing to dates completely outside the original reservation dates may trigger a $10 change fee. Extending or shortening a stay that still includes original dates usually has no change fee, though refunds may depend on timing and facility rules. Switching to the same type of campsite for the same dates usually has no change fee, but price differences are charged or refunded.
- Early departures may or may not be refunded. At certain facilities, partial refunds may be possible if staff can mark the site available for other visitors. No refund is given for a night if the early departure is requested after that day's check-out time.
- Security deposits are separate. Security deposits may be refunded to the original payment method if the facility is left in acceptable condition, as determined by the property.
Safety & rules
- Be informed about safety regarding bears, water, and weather before your stay.
- Pack out all garbage and food after your stay.
- There is a risk of hantavirus exposure at remote cabins; be informed.
Utilities
- No water is available; please bring your own.
General
- Learn more about the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest
Fires & fuel
- Do not move firewood; obtain it locally and burn it on-site.
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Last updated: October 22, 2026