Pebble Creek Campground

Yellowstone National Park


The park’s most remote campground is set along the banks of a creek in grizzly habitat and surrounded on three sides by the rugged cliffs of the Absaroka Range. It’s popular with hikers and wolf-watchers, even though the sites are a bit cramped. It's off Northeast Entrance Rd, 10 miles from the Northeast Entrance, at the lower end of Icebox Canyon.

The nearest showers and supplies are at Tower-Roosevelt Junction. The Pebble Creek hiking trail starts nearby and there’s good fishing at Soda Butte Creek. Generators are not allowed. Most sites are pull-through. Sites are first come, first served.


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