Apgar Campground

Lovely campground in the month of May. Few other campers, all quiet, charming campground hosts, clean bathrooms, showers, recycling bins and a waste dump for campers. All very conveniently located walking distance from Lake MacDonald. We biked Going to the Sun Road as it is closed to cars this early in the season. It was a wonderful experience. Be sure to bring (or purchase) your own wood for a campfire as you may not collect wood inside the park (even at the campground). The only troublesome part was figuring out how to pay for the camp site. It was complicated and required cell service to use the recreation.org site and subsequently call. I suppose the system works well during the busy season but it was not easy to navigate.

Excellent campground facilities and its location.

Excellent campground facilities and its location.

Apgar is a great campground in general (I've camped here before in a tent during the off season) but trying to situate a 29 foot trailer in this particular spot was next to impossible. We made it work but they're REALLY stretching to say you can accommodate anything over 24 feet here. Otherwise, the location is great for recreating at Lake McDonald and it was nice having quick access to the Going to the Sun Road. Not much by way of wild life here in mid-summer but I suppose that's expected. Overall good but we'll by trying to find better campgrounds in the area when camping with a trailer.

Apgar is a great campground in general (I've camped here before in a tent during the off season) but trying to situate a 29 foot trailer in this particular spot was next to impossible. We made it work but they're REALLY stretching to say you can accommodate anything over 24 feet here. Otherwise, the location is great for recreating at Lake McDonald and it was nice having quick access to the Going to the Sun Road. Not much by way of wild life here in mid-summer but I suppose that's expected. Overall good but we'll by trying to find better campgrounds in the area when camping with a trailer.

Apgar campground was clean and well managed, even late into the camping season.

love this campground. will be back.

Apgar campground was clean and well managed, even late into the camping season.

love this campground. will be back.

We arrived in early October to find the entire campground had gone primitive. We were very aware that the park is extremely seasonal, but were given no advanced warning that upon arrival, all the bathrooms would be locked, all the water shut off, all the dump stations closed/locked and even more confusing, no one manning the visitors center, which was still open. It was an absolute ghost town. Why allow for reservations to be made, with descriptions of available amenities if wholly untrue. We were able to find an education guide, who was very friendly, but admittingly had no answers to any questions and provided us with a map of the park but noted "Just please be aware, this is an old map - we have not been given the updated ones'.

We were fortunate to be in an RV, but many others were not and visibly upset.

On a side note - this review was just for our experience. The campground is very nice and the park is obviously beautiful, but we made our way to the East entrance and after visiting St. Marys and Many Glaciers campgrounds - would recommend those over Apgar.

Still give the trip/visit a 10 out of 10!