Big Creek Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- FreeNo camping fee
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Three primitive campsites at the confluence of the North and South Forks of Big Creek. Each site is equipped with a picnic table and fire ring. The campground has a vault toilet and there is no drinking water or garbage service on site. Horse/Hiker and motorized trails from the campground follow each creek for several miles.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and fire ring. The campground has a vault toilet and there is no drinking water or garbage service…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…The campground has a vault toilet and there is no drinking water or garbage service on site. Horse/Hiker and…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
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.
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
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
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Meadow Lake CampgroundSalmon National Forest · 14 miMorse Creek CampgroundChallis National Forest · 16 miMt. Borah Trailhead and Camping AreaChallis National Forest · 24 mi
McFarland CampgroundSalmon Field Office · 25 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Leadore, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 28°F, day 57°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 7°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
Big 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 →