Kelly's Camp is a small district of vacation cabins on the west shore of Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.
Kelly's Camp consists of twelve log buildings along the western shore of the lake.
Early reports following the advance of the Howe Ridge Fire on August 12, 2018 are that nine or ten structures have been destroyed.
[2] The present area of the camp was originally the homestead of Frank Kelly, who staked his claim in March 1894.
Kelly married Emmeline "Liney" Haworth in 1897 and the family spent some of their summers at the camp.
[3] Kelly had difficulty maintaining his land claim after the park was established in 1910, and needed a special patent granted by Congress in 1914 to own his 55-acre (22 ha) property.
Horace Chadbourne and Frank Kelley cleared a road grade from the Lake McDonald Ranger Station to the camp in 1933, which was completed by the Park Service.
Vern Kelly, their son, took over the camp, although bookings declined during the remainder of the 1930s and during World War II.
Vern Kelly died in 1958, and his widow Helen sold a parcel to Wendell Hammond, who built two cabins.
In 1988 a Kelly descendant sold the Big House and one cabin to the Park Service in exchange for a life estate.