Antelope (Boise National Forest, ID)
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:52 UTC
- A night
- $20When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 14In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Antelope Campground is located on the shores of the scenic Sagehen Reservoir in the Boise National Forest, perched at an elevation of 5031 feet. Visitors enjoy boating, fishing and exploring the non-motorized Sagehen Reservoir Trail. Keep reading
Recreation
Sagehen Reservoir offers excellent boating, canoeing and rainbow trout fishing. A boat ramp and dock are located within the campground.The speed limit on the reservoir is 15 mph. Hiking, biking, horse and off-road vehicle trails are abundant in the area. The non-motorized Sagehen Reservoir Trail, a 4-mile loop around the lake, offers great fishing spots, beautiful viewpoints and abundant wildlife watching opportunities. The Sagehen and KYAOTT ATV Trail Systems can be accessed near the reservoir, offering more than 35 miles of trails for off-road vehicles and motorcycles, but hikers, mountain bikers and horseback riders can enjoy these trails as well.
Facilities
The campground offers a large, tent-only group site that can accommodate up to 30 people, with several picnic tables, a grill and campfire ring. Numerous single-family sites also available, equipped with picnic tables and campfire rings. Vault toilets and hand-pumped drinking water are provided. Roads and some parking spurs throughout the campground are paved; other spurs are gravel. Firewood is available for purchase from the host.
Natural Features
The campground is situated in a forest of towering Ponderosa pine, Engelmann spruce, Douglas fir and grand fir. Most sites have plentiful shade and some have partial lake views. Summer temperatures range from 80-90 degrees during the day with crisp, cool nights. A variety of berries and mushrooms can be found throughout the area. Local wildlife includes deer, elk, black bear, goshawk, woodpeckers and boreal owls.
What the agency tells you
Idaho Off-Road Vehicle Safety Message
Additional first come, first served sites are available
A per-day per-vehicle fee will be collected at the campground for extra vehicles
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Click here for more information on the Boise National Forest
Please click here for further information about the facility and recreation opportunities in the area.
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
- 14 · 1 tent-only, 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…with picnic tables and campfire rings. Vault toilets and hand-pumped drinking water are provided. Roads…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…rings. Vault toilets and hand-pumped drinking water are provided. Roads and some parking spurs…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 355th darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 2
Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:52 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 11
What you actually pay
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 · 4
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Antelope (Boise National Forest, ID) closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 1
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Ninemeyer CampgroundBoise National Forest · 50 mi · walk-up
recreation.gov availability, read 15:52 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 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.
| ANTE | 003 | group tent only area nonelectric | 230 ft | 403 ft | 309 ft | $100 | |
| ANTE | 004 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 133 ft | 119 ft | 149 ft | $20 |
| ANTE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 133 ft | 235 ft | 252 ft | $20 |
| ANTE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 159 ft | 284 ft | 462 ft | $20 |
| ANTE | 011 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 98 ft | 452 ft | 597 ft | $20 |
| ANTE | 012 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 98 ft | 439 ft | 499 ft | $20 |
| ANTE | 013 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 70 ft | 540 ft | 542 ft | $20 |
| ANTE | 014 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 70 ft | 543 ft | 477 ft | $20 |
| ANTE | 015 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 85 ft | 620 ft | 513 ft | $20 |
| ANTE | 016 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 85 ft | 702 ft | 592 ft | $20 |
| ANTE | 017 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 88 ft | 650 ft | 522 ft | $20 |
| ANTE | 018 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 88 ft | 562 ft | 434 ft | $20 |
| ANTE | 019 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 88 ft | 437 ft | 301 ft | $20 |
| ANTE | 020 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 88 ft | 503 ft | 370 ft | $20 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Sagehen CreekBoise National Forest · 0.4 miEastside Campground (Group ONLY)Boise National Forest · 0.6 mi
EastsideBoise National Forest · 0.6 miHollywood CampgroundBoise National Forest · 0.7 miFrom Horseshoe Bend, Idaho, take State Highway 52 for 9 miles, then turn right on Sweet/Ola Highway and travel 16 miles to Ola. From Ola, continue 10 miles northeast on FS Rd 618, then make a right on FS Rd 626 and follow it for 7 miles. Make a left on FS Rd 614 and travel about 2 miles to Sage Hen Reservoir. Antelope Campground is on the north end of the reservoir.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Smiths Ferry, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 15°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Antelope (Boise National Forest, ID) 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 →