Clark Fork Campground

It’s a nice place to relax with family. Nice bathrooms. Really cold at night during summer, but hot during the day. The river goes too fast so it’s kinda hard finding a spot to get in (if you want, realllyyyyy cold water when i went). Also a downside is that there’s no wifi :)

Nice, quiet little campground to take your family for a quick trip. Clean bathrooms and the camphosts are super friendly. Plenty things to do with fishing, hiking or just star gazing. Peaceful and relaxing. Love coming here.

I have been camping here since I was 17 yrs old. It's so beautiful and clean. Great fishing (trout) .. At night you can see a gazillion stars. I wish I lived up their..

While on a road trip from the San Francisco Bay Area to Northern Colorado in mid-August, 2021, we stayed at this campground for 1 night and had no problem, without a reservation, finding a site on a Saturday night. You will arrive at this campground after leaving CA Hwy 108 and driving about 6 miles on Clark Fork Road, a good paved road, suitable for all types of vehicles. The drive takes you through the 2018 Donnell Fire burn scar; the campground itself was not burned and is pleasantly forested. All sites are easy walking distance from the Clark Fork River, a welcoming place where you can fish or wade in the cool water. The flush toilets and potable water spigots throughout the campground make for a nice stay. NOTE: In the summer of 2021, camping fees were payable with cash-only.

I stayed here for two nights in the summer of 2020. This review is based on the staff and the campground itself compared to the costs. This has nothing to do with the state of the nearby burned forest (thanks to the inept United States Florist Circus) or the weather, which included the too be expected summer storm complete with thunder and lightening for four hours one afternoon (although it was fun to watch other campers pack up hastily and flee light the flatlander cockroach’s that invade my mountains every year). The campground itself consisted of two loops, with a total of 88 campsites. Most camp sites can fit an RV or 5th Wheel, but not all can easily. The roadways themselves are paved but with some major erosion and settling requiring unaddressed repair. You are allowed up to 6 people, 3 tents, and 2 cars per site. The sites themselves are clean but too close together. In some case you feel like you are sharing space without neighbors. This is a problem if you neighbors are loud and obnoxious, and the camp hosts are nonexistent. The camp hosts were nonexistent. In 48 hours I saw them once. That’s a good thing and a bad thing. You probably could get away with not even paying the overpriced rates of $23 a night because the concessionaire is inept (the teetering in bankruptcy Dodge Corp). Of course, when your neighbors cram 5 cars, 8 people, and 5 tents into a regular space, shoot pellet guns off in the campground, party until midnight, and are so loud other sites had to have a talk with them, and the camp hosts do nothing... what’s the point of paying? The rest of the campground is ok at best. There is running water located around the loops. The restrooms also have running water and flushable toilets, but were disgusting (the fine staff of Dodge Ridge again). The garbage dumpsters were in need or replacement, with bottoms rotted out and patches that didn’t work. So much for the warnings about “bear country”. Speaking of which, only half the sites had bear boxes. All in all not a great campground, mostly because of lazy staff, the roads, the state of the bathrooms, the broken dumpsters, and the spacing of sites.