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About Chinamen's Campground
Number of accommodations: 37
Activities & Attractions
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Boating
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Year-round
Fishing
Spring
Boating
Summer
Boating
Swimming
Fall
Boating
Seasonal information
2026 Season availability
Campground Amenities
Water Access
- Beach Access
- Lake Access
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Reviews (86)
What Guests Are Saying
Chinamen's Campground features beautiful scenery and great lake access, making it a pleasant getaway for families. Many reviewers appreciated the friendly and helpful camp host, though some expressed concerns about her availability and enforcement of rules. While the campground has a clean environment and reasonable pricing, issues like trash, noisy neighbors, and small campsite sizes were noted, suggesting a need for improvements in management and facilities.
What Guests Are Saying
Chinamen's Campground features beautiful scenery and great lake access, making it a pleasant getaway for families. Many reviewers appreciated the friendly and helpful camp host, though some expressed concerns about her availability and enforcement of rules. While the campground has a clean environment and reasonable pricing, issues like trash, noisy neighbors, and small campsite sizes were noted, suggesting a need for improvements in management and facilities.
Review Summary
Paul O
VerifiedSeptember 7, 2021 • Stayed at: 021
This is a nice campground for tents & small trailers. It has a boat ramp and swimming area. There is no shower house, but the vault toilets are kept quite clean. It is very quiet which was nice. While the map makes it look like a road goes through them, sites 19-21 are in a small cul de sac separate from the other sites. Perfect for a small group. We will definitely return.
Debra V
VerifiedSeptember 12, 2021 • Stayed at: 023
Nice - water activites
Christi S
VerifiedMay 17, 2022 • Stayed at: 006
Camp Host Deb was very friendly! Few others were there - early in the season and not great weather - but the facilities were clean and we enjoyed our visit. If the campground is full the sites closest to the lake are very close to each other but we really enjoyed ourselves.
Mitchell J
VerifiedJune 19, 2022 • Stayed at: 003
Best campsite in the area
Craig S
VerifiedJune 24, 2022 • Stayed at: 007
Chinamen's campground experience gave us an uncomfortable feeling because when we first arrived we noticed dog poop in the campground areas and on the beach. Then when we opened our RV door to walk our small dog on a lease after set up there was a loose large black dog running up to our RV door (scary for us since we've had another dog attack us years ago and we don't ever want to expose our small dog to unknown large dogs) so we had to speak to the dog owner who came out of the RV parked on the Host site. We believed he may be family (adult son?) of the older Host woman who worked there. He said he'd keep his dog on a leash but the next day his dog was still running loose and he was even throwing a ball down near our campground area from Host RV area on the hill for the dog to retrieve seemingly out of spite! Very uncomfortable experience for us and we were afraid to talk to the Host woman about it in case he might do something more antagonistic than he already was doing. We also had a large dog poop right in front of our driver's side truck door that looked stepped on. All that plus very difficult, tight sites to back into made us unfortunately glad to leave Chimamen's Campground nor can we ever recommend it to anyone.
Dianne V
VerifiedJune 28, 2022 • Stayed at: 007
Windy, but was a nice stay near the lake to teach the kids how to skip rocks. We rescued a raven hanging upside down in a tree who had fishing wire tangled around it's legs.
Samantha B
VerifiedJuly 7, 2022 • Stayed at: 026
I thought the campground was beautiful and the proximity to the lake was good. The camp host was also really nice. My only note is reserving online was a bit misleading. The pictures weren't very accurate to the campsite so I had to book another last minute.
Tara E
VerifiedJuly 12, 2022 • Stayed at: 001
Camp host Johnnie was wonderful and very helpful and kind . Camp site was small, bathrooms were good. Beautiful view of the lake.
Leslie G
VerifiedJuly 18, 2022 • Stayed at: 026
Camp host was great and facilities clean!!
Michael P
VerifiedJuly 24, 2022 • Stayed at: 022
My reserved site was taken and had to take another site that I would not have chosen. Camp host was not very helpful except to allow camping in another site. One of the ugliest places I have ever camped we will never be back
Location Chinamen's Campground
Address:
7700 Canyon Ferry Rd
Helena, MT, 59602
United States
Heading north along MT highway 12/287, drive north to Spokane Creek Rd and turn right Yellow flashing light. Follow Spokane Creek Rd for 4.6 mi and turn right onto Co Rd 430/Canyon Ferry Rd and continue on to Chinamen's Campground. The campground will be on the right.
Chinamen's Campground is accessible via MT Highway 12/287, which is the main route leading to the campground from the north. The campground is reached by turning onto Spokane Creek Rd from MT Highway 12/287.
Elevation: 1192 feet
20 mi drive to downtown Helena (about 30 min)
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Last updated: September 8, 2026