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Reviews (144)
What Guests Are Saying
Emery Bay Campground offers a beautiful location with great lake access, friendly and professional camp hosts, and well-maintained facilities including clean bathrooms. While the campground is peaceful and ideal for kayaking or paddleboarding, access involves a rough, unpaved road that can be challenging for some vehicles. Overall, visitors appreciate the serene environment, cleanliness, and the proximity to Glacier National Park, making it a popular choice despite minor inconveniences.
What Guests Are Saying
Emery Bay Campground offers a beautiful location with great lake access, friendly and professional camp hosts, and well-maintained facilities including clean bathrooms. While the campground is peaceful and ideal for kayaking or paddleboarding, access involves a rough, unpaved road that can be challenging for some vehicles. Overall, visitors appreciate the serene environment, cleanliness, and the proximity to Glacier National Park, making it a popular choice despite minor inconveniences.
Review Summary
Keegan P
VerifiedSeptember 28, 2026 • Stayed at: Emery Bay Grp 2, Loop: Bay Loop 2B
Great hosts!
Linda J
VerifiedSeptember 17, 2026 • Stayed at: 4, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
The campground was quiet and clean. The camp host was very friendly and welcomed us on the first night.
My only complaint is the road getting there, It's 4 mi of deep potholes.. that is a forest service issue
Alicia S
VerifiedSeptember 16, 2026 • Stayed at: 17, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
Clean, quiet and beautiful.
Robert L
VerifiedSeptember 12, 2026 • Stayed at: 3, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
The campground was great. The location perfect to the park. The bathrooms were very clean all the time. And Kevin and Michelle, the campground hosts, were off the charts! They went way above and beyond to make everyone feel welcome
ALEXANDER B
VerifiedSeptember 8, 2026 • Stayed at: 4, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
Our spot (#4) was close to water access and had nice views, yet included a semi-secluded area for our tent. Beautiful area and clean grounds.
Chelsea K
VerifiedSeptember 7, 2026 • Stayed at: Emery Bay Grp 2, Loop: Bay Loop 2B
This was a lovely campground. The camp host was kind and attentive. Will be back next year!
Jennifer R
VerifiedAugust 28, 2026 • Stayed at: 7, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
Loved this site, right by a restroom that was always stocked and clean. Great view over the lake. Camp hosts were nice and attentive to the campground. Campground is up on a hill with a boat launch and plenty of rock beach on each side. Lake was good for paddle boarding. About 30 mins from West Glacier. We had a great trip here!
Raymond S
VerifiedAugust 26, 2026 • Stayed at: 15, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
The campsite was OK, during our brief inspection, but the road was unimaginably awful! The road was one of the worst I've been on in my 68 years of driving. The info about Emery Bay cautions that there's about 4+ miles of "unpaved" road, but there's a huge difference between "unpaved" and "horribly washboard surface." We had a 3-wheel motorcycle with us, and we would have damaged it beyond repair if we had tried to ride it on that road.
As a consequence, after finally arriving at the campsite, we decided to turn around and find someplace else to stay - which we did. Forfeiting the fee for the campground was a much better alternative than repairing our motorcycle. (As far as we know at this point, our toy hauler trailer did not suffer any damage at the creeping speed we had to drive.)
The warning about the road needs to say that the road is not only unpaved, but also may be washboard rough and may be potholed as well.
Tom R
VerifiedAugust 25, 2026 • Stayed at: 2, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
It is very clean and remote with beautiful views of the lake!
Filomena S
VerifiedAugust 10, 2026 • Stayed at: 25, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
Love this campground, the boat dock, the beach, it's all there! The camp hosts were great, friendly and professional. I found a mulberry bush in the campsite. On the down side, theres about 3 mi of dirt road that is extremely bad with washboards. drive very slow through there especially campers. I think it's part of old hwy 2.
Location & Directions for Emery Bay Campground
East Side Reservoir Rd #38, Martin City, MT 59926 United States
Elevation: 1,086 ft
Getting There
From Martin City, Montana, turn off Highway 2 and continue on the main road through the town heading south. This road becomes East Side Reservoir Road. Continue for about 6 mi into the campground.
Nearby National Park
West Entrance
Approximate driving time: 25 min
Policies & Rules
Arrival & departure
Check in time
2PM
Check out time
11AM
General
- If a site is not available for reservation online, it is shown as a first-come, first-served (FF) or walk-in (W) site. These sites will be identified at the campground on maps and campsite post markers with a W. First-come, First-served sites may already be taken as this cannot be updated on the Recreation.gov website. You may try to call for availability.
- Reserved sites will be held until the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released.
- We do not allow reservation holders to change campsites and move to a Walk-up campsite upon arrival. Most of our campsites are available for advanced reservations, and you must occupy the site you reserve.
- You are allowed 2 passenger vehicles per site, the first vehicle is included in the site fee and an extra vehicle charge of $5.00/vehicle per night will be collected at the campground. Sites that are identified as double occupancy can accommodate an additional camping unit. In this situation, you will be charged for each camper.
- Potable water is available for filling containers after June 1st. Please fill RVs prior to arrival, as water is hauled by truck to campground.
- There is now a 10 day stay limit on all Group sites, starting in 2022.
- Drop Camping is illegal without a Forest Service permit. If you rent a camper it may not be delivered by the owner.
- There is a food storage order in effect on the Flathead National Forest. Know how to store all attractants all the time. See your Campground Host for more information or visit: https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/flathead/recreation/?cid=stelprdb5347448
- Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
- Click here for more information on the Flathead National Forest
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Last updated: October 21, 2026
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