Amanita
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 42 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 6All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Amanita Campground is located next to scenic Lake Cascade in west-central Idaho. It is near the town of Donnelly, at an elevation of 4,850 feet. Boating, fishing, swimming and hiking are popular activities in this scenic region. Keep reading
Recreation
Lake Cascade offers excellent opportunities for boating, water skiing, canoeing, windsurfing and sailing. Anglers enjoy casting for rainbow trout, coho salmon, smallmouth bass and perch. A boat ramp is located at the neighboring Rainbow Point Campground. Many hiking and ATV trails are in the area as well.
Facilities
This small campground contains single-family campsites, with picnic tables, campfire rings and grills. Some sites have lake views and shoreline access. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided, but there is no electricity at the campground. Roads and parking spurs within the facility are gravel. A campground host can be located at Rainbow Point Campground.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the west shore of the lake, among a mixed-growth conifer forest that towers over the campground. Summer wildflowers are abundant in the area. A wide variety of wildlife makes its home around the lake. Waterfowl and songbirds can also be seen in the area, as well as pelicans and bald eagles.
What the agency tells you
Idaho OHV Safety Message
Bears frequent the area; please keep a clean camp and be bear aware
First-come, first-served sites may also be available
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Click here for more information on the Boise 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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 6
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…have lake views and shoreline access. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided,…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and shoreline access. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided, but there is no…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 377th darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 2
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 · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
11 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 6 mapped sitesAll 11 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 6 of the 11 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. 6 of the 11 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AMAN | 002 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 99 ft | 261 ft | 130 ft | $20 |
| AMAN | 003 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 75 ft | 236 ft | 247 ft | $20 |
| AMAN | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 75 ft | 240 ft | 178 ft | $20 |
| AMAN | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 86 ft | 100 ft | 138 ft | $20 |
| AMAN | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 86 ft | 51 ft | 109 ft | $20 |
| AMAN | 009 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 139 ft | 91 ft | 94 ft | $20 |
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX | unnamed record | 40 ft | $33.97 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX1 | unnamed record | $33.97 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX2 | unnamed record | $33.97 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX3 | unnamed record | $33.97 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX4 | unnamed record | $33.97 |
The agency files 5 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Rainbow PointPayette National Forest · 0.2 mi
Cabin CreekPayette National Forest · 7.7 mi
Paddy Flat Guard StationPayette National Forest · 11 mi
French CreekBoise National Forest · 12 mi
Kennally CreekPayette National Forest · 14 mi
Big FlatPayette National Forest · 15 miFrom Boise, Idaho, take Highway 55 north for 95 miles to Donnelly. Turn west on West Roseberry Road and travel 1.5 miles to Norwood Road. Turn south and continue one mile to Tamarack Falls Road. From there, turn west and go just over a mile to West Mountain Road. Turn south and go a mile 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 Donnelly, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 28°F, day 57°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 13°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
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
Amanita 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 →