Cummings Cabin in MT -- Campground & RV Camping

Cummings Cabin is a historic 1910-era mining-style shelter tucked into a grassy clearing in Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest. The rustic cabin sleeps up to five people using two double beds and one twin bed. Facilities include a hand water pump, propane range, propane lights, wood stove, fireplace, kitchenware, outdoor fire ring, and an outhouse vault toilet. Located near the headwaters of the Blackfoot River, it caters to fly fishing, hiking along the Continental Divide Trail, ATV riding on the Hogum Creek trail, and winter cross-country skiing or snowmobiling.

Getting there: The cabin is located 8.5 miles east of Lincoln, Montana and can be reached via Hogum Creek Road, which is approximately 6 miles east of Lincoln on Highway 200. Follow Hogum Creek Road to the junction of Black Diamond Road and Lower Hogum Creek Road. Lower Hogum Creek Road will take you to the cabin driveway. The driveway is on the left and is signed with a wooden sign and blue ski blazers. During the winter months, snow plowing occurs infrequently on the Lower Hogum Creek Road. Be prepared to hike, ski, or snowmobile up to one mile to reach Cummings Cabin in the winter. A parking area is plowed in at the jct with Black Diamond road, visitors traveling beyond this point to the cabin in the winter should be prepared for snow drifts and adverse conditions. There is usually a large sled stored at the cabin in the winter months to assisst with moving renter's supplies. Please respect the private lands that border the west side of the cabin site and do not block the Lower Hogum Creek Road.

• Moderately separated here.
• Flat ground is scarce: under a tenth of the terrain within a few hundred yards is level.
• Cabins and shelters rather than pads, with most of them shaded.
• Crater Mountain stands 2,096 ft above the map pin, 3.9 miles south.
• Black Diamond Creek runs 0.4 mi off.

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