Montana / Valley County / Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge

Perch Point 1 & 2

Open — Open and accepting reservations year-round. Access roads may be impassable in inclement weather during winter months.

About

Perch Point 1 & 2 Recreation Area sits on Fort Peck Lake west of Fort Peck Dam in northeastern Montana, offering stunning panoramic views of the dam and lake framed by mature cottonwood trees. The campground provides a primitive camping experience with vault toilets, picnic tables, and gravel roads typical of remote Fort Peck Lake recreation areas. The site features two group shelter sites with electricity available for reservation. Fort Peck Lake, impounded by the first dam built in the upper Missouri River Basin, provides 1,500 miles of pristine shoreline and is renowned nationwide as a hot spot for walleye fishing. The lake also offers excellent fishing for sauger, smallmouth bass, lake trout, chinook salmon, and northern pike. The area provides superb hunting opportunities for deer, elk, bighorn sheep, and pronghorn within the surrounding 1.1 million-acre Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge. Recreation opportunities include camping, boating, fishing, hunting, wildlife viewing, hiking, disc golf at the nearby Fortress course installed in 2021, and exploring three miles of paved nature trails along the Missouri River. The Fort Peck Interpretive Center and Museum, Historic Fort Peck Theater, and Leo B. Coleman Wildlife Pasture with Fort Peck's bison herd are nearby attractions. Access roads to remote areas may be impassable in inclement weather.

Directions

From Glasgow: head south on MT-42 S/State Hwy 24 W and continue onto MT 24 S for 15 miles. Turn right onto Duck Creek Road for 0.2 miles. Take a slight left into the Perch Point Recreation Area. From Nashua: Take MT-117 S to Hwy 24. Turn right for 0.2 miles. Turn left onto Duck Creek Road for 0.2 miles. Take a slight left into the Perch Point Recreation area. From MT-200: Take MT-24 N for 59.7 miles. Turn right onto Duck Creek Road for 0.2 miles. Take a slight left into the Perch Point Recreation Area.

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