U.S. Forest Service · Cache National Forest · ID
Beaver Creek Campground
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- A night
- FreeNo camping fee
- Season
- June 1Opens June 1. No closing date published.
7,840 ftElevation
426 ftWater · Beaver Creek
13.5 miE of Franklin, ID
40%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 480th darkest of 523 in ID
Opens June 1. No closing date published.Today
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Beaver Creek Campground is located southwest of St. Charles, Idaho just north of the Idaho/Utah border. It has 5 units and restrooms with good hiking opportunities in this area. Open after season, First Come/First Served; No fee, No Toilets, No Water
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- None. Pack out what you bring in
- “No fees; No water; No Toilets; first come/first served basis; fee camping starts…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “No fees; No water; No Toilets; first come/first served basis; fee…”
Source: read from the agency fee text, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Fall color · reported 8 days ago, 22 km away
- Past peak
Source: Stated in the agency description
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (22 km) · Oct 8, 2026
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and it costs nothing at all. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
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.
BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
A nightFreeNo camping feethe agency’s fee record
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 8
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
Camping feeFree
No fees
No water
No Toilets
first come/first served basis
fee camping starts back up June 1st
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
A night, and a whole weekendDerivedNothing
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s own record says there’s no camping fee, 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
Sign price: Derived by CAMPANAC from the U.S. Forest Service fee record: a stated per-night amount only · Sep 7, 2026
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
Egan Basin Guard StationCache National Forest · 3.2 mi
Cloverleaf CampgroundCache National Forest · 5.2 mi
Porcupine (ID)Cache National Forest · 5.2 mi
NORTH FORK CAMPGROUND - St. CHARLES CANYONCache National Forest · 5.2 mi
Davis Canyon CampgroundCache National Forest · 6.3 mi
St. Charles CampgroundCache National Forest · 7.7 mi
Egan Basin Guard StationCache National Forest · 3.2 miCloverleaf CampgroundCache National Forest · 5.2 miPorcupine (ID)Cache National Forest · 5.2 miNORTH FORK CAMPGROUND - St. CHARLES CANYONCache National Forest · 5.2 miDavis Canyon CampgroundCache National Forest · 6.3 miSt. Charles CampgroundCache National Forest · 7.7 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
This Afternoon53°Sunny
Tonight33°Mostly Clear
Saturday57°Sunny
Saturday Night33°Mostly Clear
NWS forecast for Garden City, UT
Source: National Weather Service, PIH forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
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.
Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026
Who answers for this land
Beaver Creek 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: Today falls inside the season the agency publishes, and it has posted nothing else. That reading is ours. The U.S. Forest Service’s own database, though, flags it not open with no reason or date; the flag is named under How we know all this.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 16, 2026
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (22 km) · Oct 8, 2026
Reported by: iNaturalist fall color observations, reported past peak · Oct 8, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Garden City, UT, 5.4 mi NW. Straight line.