Albeni Cove
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 35 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $30–$35Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 14All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Albeni Cove is a small campground located just upstream from Albeni Falls Dam on the Pend Oreille. Situated amongst firs, cedars and pines, Albeni Cove provides a rustic, but incredibly beautiful location for camping and recreation on the river. Keep reading
Recreation
Water sports are the most common activity at Albeni Cove, including swimming, fishing and boating. Campers are likely to spot wildlife in the area, including bald eagles, osprey, a wide variety of birds, and most commonly, deer.
Facilities
Albeni Cove Campground offers 14 campsites, all with picnic tables and grills. An on-site dock, boat ramp and swimming beach provide easy access to the water.
Natural Features
Albeni Falls Dam on the Pend Oreille River, provides flood control, power production and countless recreational activities for visitors year-round. Behind the dam, the Pend Oreille River stretches 65 miles through a glacial-carved valley that separates three mountain ranges. Lake Pend Oreille is surrounded by scenic mountains and is one of the largest and deepest natural lakes in the western United States, plunging to depths of more than 1,200 ft. in some areas.
Nearby Attractions
The Albeni Falls Visitor Center features exhibits on the history of the dam and the natural features of the area. Tours of the dam are given daily during the summer.
Charges & Cancellations
A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. Late cancellations are subject to additional fees. For full details see NRRS Reservation Policy.
What the agency tells you
Campsites are by reservation only.
Access to the recreation area is over a rough, gravel road, RV's not recommended.
No unlicensed motorized vehicles allowed, including side-by-sides, ATVs, etc.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Swim beach and boat ramp may be closed when spillway gates are open in May, June, and early July.
Campsites are for camping only. Reserving for day-use activities without intending to camp is prohibited.
All camping equipment must be located on the campsite impact areas, or if undefined, located 10-15ft from the fire ring and off all vegetation.
Site Limits: (a) 2 Motorized Vehicles (b) 1 Camping unit (RV, motorhome, camper van, etc) (c) 2 tents (d) 8 people
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 14 · 4 walk-in
- Hookups
- 1 electric
- Longest rig
- 83 ft
- Paved pads
- 4 of 14
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Picnicking
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 518th darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 4 days ago, 27 km away
- No change
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $30–$35 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
“A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation.” · this campground’s own terms
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
14 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 14 mapped sitesAll 14 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 14 of the 14 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 14 of the 14 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| ALBENI COVE | 001 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 125 ft | 285 ftLake Pend Oreille | 316 ft | $30 | |
| ALBENI COVE | 002 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 78 ft | 180 ftLake Pend Oreille | 213 ft | $30 | |
| ALBENI COVE | 003 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 78 ft | 114 ftLake Pend Oreille | 251 ft | $30 | |
| ALBENI COVE | 004 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 41 ft | 207 ftLake Pend Oreille | 366 ft | $30 | |
| ALBENI COVE | 005 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 41 ft | 217 ftLake Pend Oreille | 402 ft | $30 | |
| ALBENI COVE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 45 ft | 179 ftLake Pend Oreille | 392 ft | $30 | |
| ALBENI COVE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 84 ft | 148 ftLake Pend Oreille | 414 ft | $30 | |
| ALBENI COVE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 40 ft | 72 ftLake Pend Oreille | 367 ft | $30 | |
| ALBENI COVE | 009 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 40 ft | 60 ftLake Pend Oreille | 372 ft | $30 | |
| ALBENI COVE | 010 | walk to | 273 ft | 90 ftLake Pend Oreille | 153 ft | $30 | ||
| ALBENI COVE | 011 | walk to | 155 ft | 25 ftLake Pend Oreille | 413 ft | $30 | ||
| ALBENI COVE | 012 | walk to | 120 ft | 18 ftLake Pend Oreille | 566 ft | $30 | ||
| ALBENI COVE | 013 | walk to | 120 ft | 56 ftLake Pend Oreille | 683 ft | $30 | ||
| ALBENI COVE | 014 | rv electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 165 ft | 171 ftLake Pend Oreille | 511 ft | $35 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Pioneer Park3.3 mi
Priest River5.0 mi
Riley Creek11 mi
South Skookum LakeKaniksu National Forest · 17 mi
Springy Point20 mi
Browns Lake CampgroundKaniksu National Forest · 20 miFrom Highway 2 in Newport, Washington, turn south onto Highway 41. Follow for .5 miles and turn east on Fourth Street into Oldtown, Idaho. Follow for approximately 3 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Oldtown, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 32°F, day 54°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 22°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 more
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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Albeni Cove is in Idaho’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Russ Fulcher (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →