Slough Creek Campground

Yellowstone National Park


This remote, peaceful site, 2.2 miles up an unpaved road, is in grizzly habitat along a prime fishing stream. Generators are not allowed. The campground is 10 miles northeast of Tower-Roosevelt Junction. An anglers’ paradise that is also popular with wolf-watchers, it fills up by 9am in high season.

Sites are first come, first served.


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