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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
Joseph N
VerifiedSeptember 15, 2023 • Stayed at: 1, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
CLEANEST PIT TOILETS EVER. Quiet. Don’t think you could pick a bad spot anywhere in the camp ground.
Breanna D
VerifiedAugust 29, 2023 • Stayed at: 1, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
A wonderful campsite! Obviously beautiful scenery, our campsite offered views of the forest and the bay. Friendly and helpful camp host. There were vault toilets, but no hand sanitizer. Also no showers and no cell reception at the campsite. We drove a couple miles down the road back towards Martin City to get service, so not too far out of the way!
Elizabeth D
VerifiedAugust 20, 2023 • Stayed at: 24, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
Emery Bay campground exceeded our expectations. The forest service and Camp host did a great job monitoring and maintaining the campground. The locals were very respectful to campers while enjoying the beautiful lake. It is a great location for daytrips to the East and West entrances to Glacier National Park. We enjoyed our shopping/dining trips to Columbia Falls. Hungry Horse dam is worth seeing. We really loved our trip to Two Medicine Lake in Glacier. It is 6 miles off highway 2. The first 3 miles are paved along a rural residential area. The second 3 miles is gravel, dusty dirt and bumpy so be sure to drive slow. I hope the Forest service will find money to pave those 3 miles to make it easier to get to and from the campground. We would definitely camp here again.
Rob S
VerifiedAugust 7, 2023 • Stayed at: 8, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
The 3 mile washboard road getting to the campsite was almost unbearable. The actual site was beautiful however
Maggie S
VerifiedJuly 30, 2023 • Stayed at: 3, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
Such an amazing campground with private sites. The lake is so beautiful and wonderful to swim in and enjoy!
Natalie P
VerifiedJuly 29, 2023 • Stayed at: 3, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
Exactly what we love about camping. Plenty of space between sites; nestled in the trees yet close enough to the water for a gorgeous camping experience.
Kristina F
VerifiedJuly 26, 2023 • Stayed at: 4, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
Emery Bay campground is a lovely place. The sites are spread out, there is little night time traffic, the lake is close by and even has loons! We stayed in site #4, which is right next to the boat ramp and easy to walk down to the lake after supper to enjoy the sunset. After the busy-ness of Glacier National Park, this NFS campground is a welcome bit of peace and quiet.
Randy C
VerifiedJuly 6, 2023 • Stayed at: 19, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
Roomy sites, easy to maneuver, quiet campground Only knocks would be more dust due to unpaved roads and boat ramp is a bit steeper than most.
David G
VerifiedJuly 3, 2023 • Stayed at: 23, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
It really is a pretty location and the campsites are generally very nice and well spaced out...and private. As other reviewers have written...the day use people are quite loud (preteens on jet skis, four wheel vehicles racing through the narrow dirt campground roads, screaming kids pulled on inner tubes with speed and pontoons boats and the like). This really places a burden on the peace of this wonderful setting. Hosts were great.
Janell J
VerifiedJune 30, 2023 • Stayed at: 3, Loop: EMERY BAY CAMPGROUND
This is definitely some of the more primitive type of camping than many national parks, but that's what I LOVED about it. The pit toilets were clean, the campsites well-kept, and it was right close to the bay, which was absolutely lovely. We felt like we had the place to ourselves--just us and nature.
Also , the camp hosts were FANTASTIC! They took the time to help out when we didn't know we needed to have a reservation to get into Glacier, and how to deal with it. They also offered firewood, help lighting it (it was raining), and addressed our every need with professionalism and a positive attitude. I would stay here again in a heartbeat!
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