Explore the Forest!

We offer a range of experiences of trails and recreation sites including campgrounds with accessible site amenities as well as areas that offer universally accessible restrooms, overlooks and fishing piers.

A top destination locally and regionally.

Looking for a campground in the Greater Yellowstone Area, without the crowds? Find Gallatin National Forest Campgrounds within 35 miles of Yellowstone National Park and offer great camping in rustic settings.

There are two wilderness areas on the Custer-Gallatin National Forest. The Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness and the Lee Metcalf Wilderness.

Get off the beaten path, travel through northwestern South Dakota. Stop for a picnic and see these natural wonders- steep-walled, flat topped buttes rising 200 to 400 feet.

In 1967, the Forest Service’s Earthquake Lake Visitor Center opened its doors for the first season of operation. Today, the center provides interpretive services for more than 50,000 visitors annually. The natural attractions and the easily-seen effects of the strongest earthquake in the Rocky mountains has made this area one of the outstanding scenic and geological study areas in the west.

Completed in fall of 1920, the Lodge opened. As the first dude ranch in the state of Montana, the OTO ranch was one of 26 in Montana and Wyoming at the formation of the "Dude Ranch Association” in 1926.
USDA Forest Service photo. 
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The Main Boulder Ranger Station is one of the oldest facilities in the Forest Service System and has been restored to its original character. Visitors can look into the past and experience what it was like to live and work in the Boulder area in the early days, at what was once a remote ranger station. View full-sized photo on Flickr.