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From the Montana guide
Summer days here run warm and dry and then hand off to nights cold enough for a jacket, so the daily swing is the thing to pack for. The water stays cold all season, snowmelt-fed, which keeps swimming short and bracing rather than lazy. Afternoons can bring mountain thunderstorms and hard wind on the open plains, and late summer can carry wildfire smoke down into the valleys. The figures below are air temperatures from a representative central station; mountains and higher ground read cooler than that.
Average at camp time
June
77°high
52°low
July
87°high
59°low
August
86°high
58°low
Temperature figures are drawn from NOAA/NCEI U.S. Climate Normals. Conditions vary within a state by region, elevation, and distance from the coast, so interior and higher areas generally run cooler than coastal or low-lying ones. Treat these as a general guide, not a forecast for any specific camp.
Montana has no single front door by air. Depending on which corner of the state a camp sits in, families fly into Bozeman Yellowstone International (BZN), the state's busiest, in the southwest; Billings Logan International (BIL) in the south-central and east; Missoula International (MSO) in the west, a common start and finish for wilderness trips; or Glacier Park International (FCA) near Kalispell, the closest for the northwestern lake and Glacier-country camps. Great Falls International (GTF) and Helena Regional (HLN) cover the central corridor.
From any of these, the paved road only gets a family part of the way. An interstate carries you across the southern tier or up the center, then a U.S. highway, then secondary and often gravel roads take over toward the lakeshores, ranch valleys, and trailheads. For the backcountry trips the road simply ends at a trailhead, and that is where contact ends too. In the cities, day camps are already where families live. Transport, pickups, and any shuttle are things to confirm directly with the camp rather than to assume.