RV travel guide
Park County
County seat Livingston, 2,802 sq mi across Montana. Everything an RV traveler should read before rolling in — where you can boondock, the roads worth the detour, and the local rule that actually matters.
The county in brief
A traveler's read on Park County
Gardiner sits at Yellowstone's only year-round entrance — the Roosevelt Arch's 1903 dedication by Theodore Roosevelt himself marks the North Entrance as the original ceremonial gateway to the world's first national park. Park County holds the Yellowstone River's 50-mile descent through Paradise Valley between Livingston and Gardiner, a corridor that wraps the most famous trout-fishing water in North America and a chain of hot springs (Chico, Bozeman, Yellowstone Hot Springs) that anchor the area's wellness-tourism economy.
The Beartooth Highway US-212 east of Cooke City climbs to 10,947 ft at Beartooth Pass and is the highest-elevation paved through-route in either Montana or Wyoming, closing by snowfall every October. Livingston (population 8,304) is the county seat and the practical Bozeman-alternative resupply town for Yellowstone-North arrivals.
RV travel intelligence
Read the land before you roll in
The three things that shape an RV trip here — where you can boondock, the roads worth the detour, and the local rule that trips travelers up.
Dispersed camping
high
High — most public land permits dispersed
Nearby National Park Service units
Yellowstone (North Entrance)
Scenic drives & state byways
Paradise Valley US-89 · Beartooth Highway US-212
Ordinance note for RV travelers
Custer Gallatin NF Yellowstone RD permits 14-day dispersed; Town of Gardiner restricts overnight RV street parking to the South Park lot.
Sourced & cited
Every fact traces to an official source
Population and land area from the US Census; ordinances and park adjacency from county.gov, the National Park Service, and the US Forest Service.
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Montana rules · last verified 2026-05-10
- State rental tax
- 0% · not collected by PickRV
- Min driver age
- 18+ std · 21+ Class A
- Gravel roads
- Allowed — no restriction
- Generator quiet
- 22:00-08:00
Your next step
Seeing Park County from a rig
Most public land here allows dispersed camping for up to 14 days, which makes this county far friendlier to a self-contained rig than to a hotel plan.
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