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Cooney State Park

Visit the most popular recreation area serving south central Montana featuring excellent walleye and rainbow trout fishing, boating, water-skiing and scenic mountain views.

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Head to Cooney State Park's reservoir 40 minutes south of Billings to boat, play in the water, camp, and fish. This is the most popular recreation area serving south central Montana, and it's always a busy place in the summer!

The park features good walleye and rainbow trout fishing, abundant boating opportunities, and five campgrounds with 82 campsites and three group use areas available daily around the lake. Nineteen campsites with electricity are available.

The park offers three boat ramps with docks and a fish cleaning station at Red Lodge Arm.

Park size: 309 acres. Elevation: 4,252 feet.

Aquatic Invasive Species

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AIS can be easily spread from one waterbody to the other. Anglers, boaters, construction workers, pond owners, gardeners, seaplane pilots, field workers - virtually anyone who works or plays in or around water can unknowingly transport these pests on their boats and equipment. It takes only one mistake to potentially infest a new water body.

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Cooney State Park

Address

86 Lake Shore Road
Roberts, MT 59070
Latitude/Longitude:
(45.44200 / -109.20500)

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Meet The Park Manager

Dennis Merkel

During my time with the Department of Defense, I worked in an area called Morale, Welfare, and Recreation, basically all the quality-of-life programs in the military. My wife Gregrie and I lived all over the world: Bermuda, the Middle East, Japan, and Iceland. I’ve also been employed with city and county parks and recreation, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Forest Service, and done consulting work for a nonprofit, forest-management organization. Gregrie and I always dreamed of living in Montana, and here we are…living the dream!

CONTACT INFO
Mailing Address:
Cooney State Park
86 Lake Shore Road
Roberts, MT 59070

Phone: 406-445-2326
Email: Dennis.Merkel@mt.gov

Recreation Manager Dennis Merkel