Albert Moser
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- A night
- $17–$32Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 9All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 1Opens May 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Albert Moser Campground is situated on the banks of the Cub River about nine miles from Preston, Idaho. Built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the late 1930s, the campground is just off Cub River Road, at an elevation of 6,000 feet. Visitors enjoy trout fishing in the river and exploring local trails. Keep reading
Recreation
The Cub River provides excellent trout fishing. Anglers enjoy fly-fishing for wild cutthroat and hatchery rainbows. Numerous hiking, biking, horse and off-road vehicle trails crisscross the Cub River area, offering great opportunities to get out and see the beautiful surroundings.
Facilities
The campground contains six single-family and three double-family sites, all with picnic tables and campfire rings. Some sites also have grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Roads and parking spurs throughout the campground are dirt. A host is located five miles up Cub River Road at Willow Flat Campground.
Natural Features
The banks of the gentle Cub River are lined with dense stands of cottonwood trees, which offer pleasant shade in the summer and bright autumn color.
What the agency tells you
Wildlife Caution
Idaho OHV Safety Message
Campground is best suited for trailers 20 feet in length or less
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Off-road vehicle use is prohibited within the campground
Click here for more information on the Caribou-Targhee National Forest
Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pests in our national forests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Check-in Time is 2:00pm and Check-out time is 12:00pm
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 9
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 25 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…rings. Some sites also have grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Roads and parking…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…also have grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Roads and parking spurs throughout…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 481st darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 9 days ago, 36 km away
- Past peak
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, $17–$32 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.
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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
9 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 9 mapped sitesAll 9 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 9 of the 9 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| ALBERT MOSER | 001 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 52 ft | 89 ft | $17–$32 |
| ALBERT MOSER | 002 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 52 ft | 58 ft | $17–$32 |
| ALBERT MOSER | 003 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 96 ft | 23 ft | $17–$32 |
| ALBERT MOSER | 004 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 96 ft | 87 ft | $17–$32 |
| ALBERT MOSER | 005 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 117 ft | 129 ft | $17–$32 |
| ALBERT MOSER | 006 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 118 ft | 135 ft | $17–$32 |
| ALBERT MOSER | 007 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 88 ft | 139 ft | $17–$32 |
| ALBERT MOSER | 008 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 88 ft | 141 ft | $17–$32 |
| ALBERT MOSER | 009 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 196 ft | 61 ft | $17–$32 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Cub River Guard StationCache National Forest · 1.0 miMarijuana Flat CampgroundCache National Forest · 1.3 mi
Willow Flat CampgroundCache National Forest · 3.6 mi
Redpoint CampgroundPocatello Field Office · 7.4 mi
Egan Basin Guard StationCache National Forest · 8.7 mi
NORTH FORK CAMPGROUND - St. CHARLES CANYONCache National Forest · 8.8 miFrom Preston, Idaho, head approximately 3 miles south on U.S. Highway 91. Turn east on Cub River Road (Forest Road 406). Proceed to the Cache National Forest Boundary. Campground is found just inside the boundary on Forest Road 406. The facility is approximately mile 7 on Cub River Road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Preston, ID
Typical weather
Typical May night 40°F, day 69°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 40°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Albert Moser 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 →