Beaver Creek lifting camping restrictions, campfire ban started today

Beaver Creek Park announced that the camping restrictions it put in place due to East Fork Fire are being lifted, but a campfire ban did go into effect today.

Beaver Creek restricted overnight camping south of Taylor Road due to the fire, bur has lifted that restriction.

At the same time, Hill County Commission, at the request of local firefighting agencies, implemented a Stage 1 fire restriction including a ban fires effective at 12:01 a.m. today.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the City of Havre mirrored that ban effective this morning.

Firefighters continue to have success in fighting the fire south of the park on tribal, state, federal and private land.

The InciWeb fire data website reports the fire remains at 7,225 acres, the size it has been since Sunday, and has 80 percent of its perimeter contained.