Upper Pierce Creek (FR 5634) in MT

Road corridorBitterroot NF, West Fork Ranger District

24 mi from Hamilton

Maps 5,092 ft

Dispersed camping generally allowed

U.S. Forest Service default; a local order can restrict it.

Motor-vehicle season 6/16–10/14Stay limit: 16 consecutive days · 32 days total per calendar year · then move 0.5 mi

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Difficult

1.1 of this road’s 8.9 miles are maintained for high-clearance vehicles, dirt the whole way.
Near Baker Point.
Terrain estimates show roadside drops of up to ~120 ft on the downhill side.
Terrain estimates suggest little level ground beside this road.
Winds through 12 switchbacks.
Dead-ends 6.2 miles in at a mapped turnaround.

Known camping along this road at mile 7.8: .

Limited privacy

Limited separation from through roads or other sites here, with the nearest through road 0.0 miles off.
North Trapper Peak stands 4,676 ft above the map pin, 3.5 miles west.

Camping or otherwise occupying a single site for over 16 consecutive days within a calendar year. … Camping or otherwise occupying any number of sites over 32 cumulative days within a calendar year.
Camping rules

October normals 29–56°F, 1.8″ precipitation. Monthly averages, PRISM 1991–2020.

Upper Pierce Creek (FR 5634) in MT -- Camping Rules & Access