Berlin Flats
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 8 of the next 10 nights read 16:43 UTC
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Berlin Flats Group Area is located along Shoshone Creek, near the North Fork Coeur d'Alene River. This area provides a perfect escape for a warm summer weekend. Here, visitors can tent camp or pull out their RVs and trailers. The nearby river provides ample fishing and river floating opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Catch-and-release cutthroat trout fishing is also popular on Shoshone Creek, and the North Fork Coeur d'Alene River. Rafting, swimming and kayaking are favorite activities on the water.
Facilities
Berlin Flats Group Area was formed from 9 single family sites. The group area can accommodate up to 75 people. Amenities include drinking water and vault toilets within 10 miles.
Natural Features
The campground sits among lodgepole and other mixed pines along the river at an elevation of 2,600 feet. The area is located among peaks of the Cascades, about 70 miles from the popular Coeur d'Alene Lake. Wildlife watchers and photographers have the chance to see mule deer, moose, osprey and calliope hummingbirds.
What the agency tells you
A 14 day stay limit is strictly enforced. Camping for a period longer than 14 days during any 30-consecutive day period is prohibited.
Bears frequent the area; keep all food out of sight in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from area after eating.
Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
SCRS & Recreation.gov policy states we will keep your reserved site until check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. If you haven't occupied it at any time during this period, your reservation is null and void and we will give it to first come first serve folks. Your reservation will be a no show and no refund will be given.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Amenities include drinking water and vault toilets within 10 miles. Natural Features The campground…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…up to 75 people. Amenities include drinking water and vault toilets within 10 miles. Natural Features…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Fishing
- Water sports
- Night sky · 378th darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 2
Full this Saturdayread 16:43 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBookedNot on the booking system
The one site on offer is taken this Friday and Saturday. 1 is free on Tue, Oct 20. read 16:43 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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
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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:43 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| BERLIN FLATS | GS01 | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 382 ftShoshone Creek | $123 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Devils ElbowCoeur d'Alene National Forest · 0.0 mi
Devil's Elbow CampgroundCoeur d'Alene National Forest · 0.8 mi
Kit PriceCoeur d'Alene National Forest · 1.8 mi
Little Guard LookoutCoeur d'Alene National Forest · 2.5 miBerlin Flats Group CampgroundCoeur d'Alene National Forest · 3.5 mi
Big HankCoeur d'Alene National Forest · 5.4 miFrom Coeur d'Alene, the route is 28 miles east on Interstate 90, then 26 miles north (Kingston exit) on paved Forest Road #9, then 5 miles north from Prichard on paved Forest Road #208, then 9 miles north on Forest Road #412 (paved except 2 miles).
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Kellogg, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 22°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 · a letter you can send
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Berlin Flats 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 →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyRuss FulcherU.S. Representative · Idaho’s 1st district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJames E. RischU.S. Senator · Idaho
- Your senator, on the same appropriationMike CrapoU.S. Senator · Idaho
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Berlin Flats, Coeur d'Alene National Forest, Idaho
Dear Russ Fulcher, I’m a constituent in Idaho’s 1st district. I tried to camp at Berlin Flats, Coeur d'Alene National Forest, Idaho, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Berlin Flats are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Berlin Flats keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Berlin Flats. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Berlin Flats (Coeur d'Alene National Forest, Idaho) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Berlin Flats, Coeur d'Alene National Forest, Idaho
Dear James E. Risch, I’m a constituent in Idaho. I tried to camp at Berlin Flats, Coeur d'Alene National Forest, Idaho, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Berlin Flats are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Berlin Flats keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Berlin Flats. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Berlin Flats (Coeur d'Alene National Forest, Idaho) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Berlin Flats, Coeur d'Alene National Forest, Idaho
Dear Mike Crapo, I’m a constituent in Idaho. I tried to camp at Berlin Flats, Coeur d'Alene National Forest, Idaho, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Berlin Flats are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Berlin Flats keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Berlin Flats. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Berlin Flats (Coeur d'Alene National Forest, Idaho) via campanac.com