Indian Creek Campground

It's a great camp site. They are pretty close together, so if you get people next to you who are not considerate of that late at night, you hear everything. Has everything you need. I understand why the sites are so close that you want to have as many available spots as possible and also probably help with wildlife staying away. Great camp grounds, was our first time staying in yellowstone. Would do it again, but I also want to try out other locations.

Welcome to Indian Creek campground!! This campground was fantastic. The site was large and surrounded by trees. The site was level and had many spots for tents as well as more than enough room for a very large vehicle/trailer. We were close to the restrooms (vault/pit toilet) and water supply. The restrooms were 7/10 clean but hand sanitizer was available. The camp hosts were very kind and extremely helpful to us. They provided us with maps and day hikes in the area. Check in was between 10AM and 10PM and check out was 10AM the next day. Bear boxes are provided, or you can keep your food in a hardsided vehicle. Despite the campsite being completely full, the campground was very quiet and no one disturbed us during our stay. We booked through Recreation.gov about a week before the trip and the price was very very affordable. I loved this campsite! One downside is that the dumpsters are a walk from the campsites and you must dispose of your garbage to prevent bears from getting to it. When cleaning dishes, water with food particles must be disposed in the vault toilet. We didn’t see any wildlife other than an abundance of ground squirrels. Extremely convenient location. You are so close to many hikes and of course viewpoints and geothermal areas. We did not have service at this campsite but when we drove up to Mammoth Springs we did, which is also where we found water filling stations.

The only thing that prevents this from 5 stars is because I had zero sun for solar (normally okay if I can charge my battery some other way) and they didn't allow generators to even heat a meal. I had to leave a day early because I had no longer had power.

You’ll forget you’re in one of the most visited national parks at this campground. Great basecamp to visit Mammoth Hot Springs and Norris Geyser Basin.

Beautiful Campground the hosts were wonderful as was all NP staff that came through, quiet and kept clean good location in the park and loved the ability to go back to this quiet spot. Stayed here summer 24' with a 22' trailer and fit just fine, shaded for most sites. Sadly MT is passing alot of bills 2025 to decimate wolf populations short distances outside the park so glad we stayed inside here and hopeful we can see one of them oneday.

The older gentleman who checked us in was extremely kind and full of great information about the park. The vault toilets were the cleanest vault toilets I’ve ever used.

Beautiful campsite in ideal location as a home base for exploring Yellowstone!

Nice campground. Very quiet. Spaces are tight for larger campers. No generators allowed. I would stay again. The hosts/rangers are serious about bear precautions, we put everything (griddle top, grill, trash, recycling) in the bear box whenever we were away, night and day. Location was good, in the NW corner of the park. Absolutely no cell service.

Review Indian Creek We stayed at Indian Creek at the end of September 2020. Let me preface my review by saying that we had a very pleasant time here, but the check in process of this first come first served campground just totally doesn't make sense to us! We arrived at 7:30am. We got in line with only a few cars ahead of us and were told that they'd open check in starting at 8am. By 9:30am, we were called up to the front of the line and told to park in one of three parking spots near the booth. At that point we were finally able to see what was taking so long: The one park ranger working would exit the booth to come up to the front car and ask them to park the car and then have the person get out of their car and meet them at the booth to check in. Then, she'd take about 15-20min with them to explain the rules of the campground and collect payment. With almost 30 people in line two days before the campground actually closed for the season, you can imagine how this process was completely inefficient. The campground itself is lovely. Each site has a bear box, picnic table, and fire pit with vault toilets and potable water nearby. We stayed at site 21 in the tent loop and had plenty of space with minimal privacy. Most campsites are close together so there isn't much privacy. We had no cell service (which is normal for the majority of the park). The campground is in a central location to explore the west part of the park. On our first night, we arrived late and found a couple setting up a tent on our site (we had our receipt hanging up on the marker and food in the bear box, but they didn't notice). It was a misunderstanding and we were able to amicably handle the situation, but what impressed me was that the campground had volunteers do a nightly security check every so often and happened to drive by when all of this went down. They checked in with us to make sure we were okay and if we needed any help sorting out the situation. I would recommend this site, just be prepared to be patient with check-in if you're lucky enough to get a site.

Great campground just north of Norris Campground. Getting a reservation in Yellowstone is basically like winning the lottery. And first-come first-serve sites when we visited the park at the end of July were still in high demand. (Showing up at 6AM at the Norris campground was apparently not early enough!) Indian Creek was an excellent alternative. The only con were the vault toilets, but they were the cleanest/best ones I used in the whole park. Plenty of toilet paper and hand sanitizer provided. The park rangers staffing the campground were SUPER friendly. Not as centrally located as Norris, but far easier then driving outside of Yellowstone Park.