U.S. Forest Service · Sawtooth National Forest · ID
Bennett Springs Campground
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading
- Season
- June 1Opens June 1. No closing date published.
7,410 ftElevation
1.3 miWater · an unnamed stream
15.8 miSE of Burley, ID
0%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 489th 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
Bennett Springs Campground is a primitive, non-fee, non-reservation campground located in the Albion Mountains. It is composed of 6 campsites that can accommodate up to 8 visitors per campsite. This area is accessible for a season that varies usually between June through October and campground amenities include chemical toilets. Fishing is available in the creek. Drinking water is not available. The campground is well suited for tent camping.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…Fishing is available in the creek. Drinking water is not available. The campground is well suited for tent camping.”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
Source: Stated in the agency description
Phone before you drive
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.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 17, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
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
Thompson FlatSawtooth National Forest · 1.1 miTwin Lakes Campground (Sawtooth)Sawtooth National Forest · 1.3 mi
Lake Cleveland - East SideSawtooth National Forest · 2.3 miLake Cleveland Campground - West SideSawtooth National Forest · 2.4 miIndependence Lakes CampgroundSawtooth National Forest · 8.3 miMcClendon Spring CampgroundBurley Field Office · 10 mi
Thompson FlatSawtooth National Forest · 1.1 miTwin Lakes Campground (Sawtooth)Sawtooth National Forest · 1.3 miLake Cleveland - East SideSawtooth National Forest · 2.3 miLake Cleveland Campground - West SideSawtooth National Forest · 2.4 miIndependence Lakes CampgroundSawtooth National Forest · 8.3 miMcClendon Spring CampgroundBurley Field Office · 10 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Today59°Sunny
Tonight42°Mostly Clear
Sunday57°Mostly Sunny
Sunday Night42°Mostly Clear
NWS forecast for Albion, ID
Source: National Weather Service, PIH forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
Roadless
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
Bennett Springs 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.
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
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: Albion, ID, 5.3 mi S. Straight line.