Custer National Forest

Contact Information

Custer National Forest
Forest Supervisor’s Office
1310 Main Street
Billings, MT 59105
Phone: 406-255-1400, Fax: 406-255-1499
Hours: 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Billings Interagency Dispatch Center:

406-896-2900
Fax: 406-896-2950
Fire Cache: 406-896-2870

Miles City Interagency Dispatch Center:

406-233-2900

Beartooth Ranger District
6811 Hwy 212
Red Lodge, MT 59068
Phone: 406-446-2103, Fax: 406-446-3918

Ashland Ranger District
P.O. Box 168/ 2378 Hwy 212
Ashland, MT 59003
Phone: 406-784-2344, Fax: 406-784-2596

Sioux Ranger District
P.O. Box 37 / 101 SE First Street
Camp Crook, SD 57724
Phone: 605-797-4432, Fax: 605-797-4404

Welcome to the Custer National Forest

Spanning across southeastern Montana, the Custer National Forest is abundant with opportunity, known best as one of the most ecologically diverse forests in the Northern Region. The Forest encompasses nearly 1.3 million acres.

Stretching from the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness outside of Red Lodge, MT, eastward across the Pryor Mountains and encompassing a varied topography including rolling grasslands, ponderosa pine and steep outcroppings surrounding Ashland, MT.

The landscape then stretches out through southeastern Montana and into South Dakota joining into mosiac islands of forest and prairie that continue to sweep out into the grasslands of central South Dakota.

Click on About the Forest to learn more about the Custer National Forest landscape!

We are going through a web transition to a new national format. Some of the information from the old site is not transferable to the new site. If you do not find the information you are looking for, please contact the Forest Headquarters at 406-255-1400.

Features

Be Bear Aware

Grizzly Bears and black bears are present across most of the Custer and Gallatin National Forests and frequent the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness.

Every district on the Gallatin National Forest and the Beartooth District on the Custer National Forest have food storage orders. Prior to heading on a backcountry trek one should know and understand these regulations. Specific precautions are needed for your safety while in Grizzly Bear country and for continued survivial of the Grizzly Bear.

Leave No Trace Principles

Leave No Trace means preventing or minimizing impacts to the land when we camp, hike, hunt, ride horses or enjoy many of the wonderful recreational activities available to us on our National Forests. Click to learn about important elements to consider when recreating in order to minimize your impact.

Spotlights

Custer National Forest MVUM's

MVUM's (Motorized Vehicle User Maps) display the Forest's travel regulations. A must have whether going for a scenic drive, a mountain bike or pack adventure.