{"id":2130,"date":"2012-01-02T04:08:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T11:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forestcamping.com\/blog\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2019-02-03T08:00:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T15:00:45","slug":"charles-waters-campground-bitterroot-nf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/suzi\/charles-waters-campground-bitterroot-nf\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Waters Campground, Bitterroot NF"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Campsite - spacious\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/gallery\/bitr12.jpg\" alt=\"a campsite in Charles Waters Memorial campground\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">a campsite in Charles Waters Memorial campground<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Convenient to Missoula,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/northern\/bitr.htm\">Charles Waters\u00a0Campground<\/a> combines rustic luxuries with wonderful hiking trails.\u00a0 Favorites are the Dr. Waters Physical Fitness and Bass Creek trails.\u00a0 The first trail is 1\/4-mile trail that meanders through a thick stand of pines and includes a variety of stations to exercise more than one&#8217;s legs.\u00a0 At the far end of the campground is the 12-mile Bass Creek trail which follows Bass Creek in to Bitterroot-Selway Wilderness. While the Fitness trail winds through the dense shadow of Ponderosa pine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/suzi\/gallery1\/bass_creek_trail\/bass_creek_trail.html\">Bass Creek trail<\/a> is more open and, in the Spring, bordered with colorful blossoms. This is a great campground with even better trails.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"View of Sawtooth Mountains\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/gallery\/bitr10a.jpg\" alt=\"moutain views from campground\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/suzi\/charles-waters-campground-bitterroot-nf\/\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 237346;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts with Thumbnails\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convenient to Missoula,\u00a0Charles Waters\u00a0Campground combines rustic luxuries with wonderful hiking trails.\u00a0 Favorites are the Dr. Waters Physical Fitness and Bass Creek trails.\u00a0 The first trail is 1\/4-mile trail that meanders through a thick stand of pines and includes a variety of stations to exercise more than one&#8217;s legs.\u00a0 At the far end of the campground  &nbsp;&nbsp;<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/suzi\/charles-waters-campground-bitterroot-nf\/\">Read More >><\/a><\/p>\n<script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 237346;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts with Thumbnails\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,9],"tags":[89,51,43],"class_list":["post-2130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-notable-campground","category-suzis-blog","tag-httpforestcamping-comcampgrounds-i-like","tag-camping","tag-national-forest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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