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About Emery Bay Campground
Number of accommodations: 18
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Boating
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2026 Season availability
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- Pet friendly
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Reviews (134)
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
Mariia I
VerifiedSeptember 19, 2021 • Stayed at: 8, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
Very much recommended!
Jeffrey B
VerifiedSeptember 6, 2021 • Stayed at: 23, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
Unfortunately upon arrival our first night. Our site was occupied for hours with a simple not asking the people to move. No ranger or camp host to discuss solutions with. Disappointing.
James H
VerifiedAugust 25, 2021 • Stayed at: 8, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
3+ miles of washboard gravel road to the campground. Once there, our spit was occupied by 8-10 people using it as a day picnic area. We couldn’t get into the spot! No host around! Terrible experience! We left!
Tasha L
VerifiedAugust 20, 2021 • Stayed at: Emery Bay Group 1, Loop: Forest Loop 1A
This place was amazing!
Daniel M
VerifiedAugust 19, 2021 • Stayed at: 14, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
BE AWARE- there is a campfire ban going on right now. Be prepared. Nowhere on this website does it mention this. If you are camping here, a propane grill is allowed. I would advise you to purchase one before coming to camp if you plan on doing any cooking. They are fairly cheap. Besides this, the campsite was great. It is along the lake and there is a nice little beach and a free boat dock to use. No running water at the campsite, so come prepared. It is a bit of a ride to get here down a bumpy gravel road, but any vehicle can make it through. No phone signal here for Verizon.
Kevin D
VerifiedAugust 19, 2021 • Stayed at: 24, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
Campground was clean and secluded. The camp spot was a little small.
Danny L
VerifiedAugust 4, 2021 • Stayed at: 15, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
If possible, get photos of campsite. The campsite we had didn’t have an actual tent area. No level spot in sight unless you want to pitch your tent on the driveway by the dusty road. However, campground area is nice and quiet and folks all adhered to the quiet hours. Would stay here again, but not campsite that doesn’t have tent pad or level area
Tanner M
VerifiedJuly 27, 2021 • Stayed at: 13, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
Nice location to glacier, nice campsite layouts, and quiet at night.
Mark C
VerifiedJuly 26, 2021 • Stayed at: 2, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
The dusty dirt road was so intolerable we turned around and said no way!
Ellen N
VerifiedJuly 12, 2021 • Stayed at: 13, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
Overall, it was nice to be fairly close to Glacier National Park, however our biggest complaints were the tent sites were too small and unlevel. We couldn't book the same site two nights in a row. The first night we were barely able to fit our 10' x 10' tent on the tent site. The second night we rolled into camp late and the tent site was too small for our tent and was on a big enough slope we couldn't set up our tent there. We planned to set up on the parking pad, but our tent requires it to be staked down and the paving used for the parking spots was too compact to stake down our tent. So we ended up looking for a hotel. In the middle of summer, that required us to drive 2-1/2 hours and pay $300 for a night. We were not happy! Another observation being there in July, we had noisy neighbors. It mostly seemed like other campers were there to be on the water boating and were up late.
Location Emery Bay Campground
Address:
East Side Reservoir Rd #38
Martin City, MT, 59926
United States
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 miles into the campground.
Elevation: 1086 feet
6.5 mi drive to downtown Martin City (about 16 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: September 3, 2026