Best Tent Camping: Montana Your Car-Camping Guide to Scenic Beauty, the Sounds of Nature, and an Escape from Civilization

From the Cabinet Mountain Wilderness in the northwest to the Yellowstone River Valley in the south, Best Tent Camping: Montana is a guidebook for car campers who like quiet, scenic, and serene campsites.

This completely updated guidebook includes detailed campground maps; key information such as fees, restrictions, and dates of operation; driving directions; and ratings for beauty, privacy, spaciousness, security, and cleanliness.

Whether you are a native Montanan in search of new territory or a vacationer on the lookout for that dream campground, this book by local outdoor adventurers Ken and Vicky Soderberg unlocks the secrets to the best tent camping Montana has to offer.

Ken Soderberg was born an avid outdoors enthusiast and has been working in the outdoor recreation profession for more than 25 years.

Vicky Soderberg has traveled extensively in the U.S. and Europe, working as a travel writer. She is the author of the Montana Family Outdoor Guide and coauthor of Along the Trail with Lewis and Clark.

Jan Nesset is an award-winning writer and editor who returned recently to his home state of Montana, a move he considers a reward after two decades of chasing career and adventure across the West. Jan has held most steady at the helm of both national and regional outdoors magazines, and he has worked as a wilderness ranger, traveled the Sahara by camel, biked across the Andes (twice), climbed to summits around the globe, won a survival-based reality television show, paddled several of Amazonia’s rivers, and led a National Geographic-sponsored adventure across America—all this and more at a pace that has disintegrated several tents.

Christina Nesset actually sets the pace, accepting a shredded tent as the cost of a well-lived life. Chris is an accomplished outdoors enthusiast with an impressive travel resume. She is also the director of a Montana conservation organization who takes her love—borderline obsession—of backpacking and tent camping into her job. The native of Virginia had long held a childhood dream of moving to Montana where she and a friendly dog would pursue an active lifestyle from a cabin in the woods. While the cabin may more resemble a comfortable mountain home and the dog has yet to leave the pound, she is truly living the dream.

The Nessets live on the outskirts of Bozeman with their two children, Silva and Aleksia, and together the die-hard tent campers enjoy the mountains, rivers, and prairies of The Last Best Place via foot, paddle, rope, and bicycle.