Beaver Creek Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Beautiful setting along Beaver Creek, this campground is close to access for the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. Fishing for trout in Beaver Creek, in nearby Cape Horn lakes, and in the many alpine lakes found along the trail in the wilderness. Trail #4021 leaves the campground to go north into the wilderness. Horse corrals with feeding stations are across the road, at the trailhead. Facilities at each of the 8 campsites include tables and fire rings with cooking grills. Within the campground amenities include hand pump for well water and newer vault toilets. While there are no full hook-ups, the campsites accommodate trailers and motorhomes up to 32 feet long.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…hand pump for well water and newer vault toilets. While there are no full hook-ups, the campsites…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Within the campground amenities include hand pump for well water and newer vault toilets. While there…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $10 with nothing added. 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.
Every line of the receipt · 5
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($10), 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
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Cape Horn Winter RentalAnadromous Spawning Area Anadromous Spawning Area · 3.2 miThatcher CampgroundAnadromous Spawning Area Anadromous Spawning Area · 3.3 miBanner Creek CampgroundAnadromous Spawning Area Anadromous Spawning Area · 5.5 miFir Creek CampgroundPlacer & Dredge Mining Prohibition Anadromous Spawning Area · 7.2 mi
Trap Creek CampgroundChallis National Forest · 7.4 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Stanley, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 24°F, day 55°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 4°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
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 →