Abbott Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 13 mi
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $6From, per site
- Season
- May 15 – October 31Open May 15 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Abbott Campground is a primitive non-reservation campground composed of 7 units located on the South Fork of the Boise River. Campground amenities include picnic tables, fire rings and restrooms. Tubing, and fishing are popular activities. There is a footbridge located on the west end of the camp area that crosses the river and accesses the Abbot Gulch area. View video of area
Facilities
- Toilets
- Yes, the record doesn't say what kind
- “Campground amenities include picnic tables, fire rings and restrooms.”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
Phone before you drive
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 6
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($6), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Elks Flat CampgroundBoise National Forest · 6.3 mi
Baumgartner CampgroundSawtooth National Forest · 6.9 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Fairfield, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 28°F, day 61°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 28°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Abbott Campground is in Idaho’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Mike Simpson (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →