Bighorn Crags Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $4From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
14 campsites with picnic tables and fire grates near the main trailhead for the Bighorn Crags in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. Separate area for horse camping with corrals and water troughs. Campground has piped drinking water, vault toilets but no garbage collection services on site. This is an area of rugged mountains, lakes, and hoodoos. Trails climb up into a highly popular region of the wilderness, winding past numerous lakes and fascinating geologic formations.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Campground has piped drinking water, vault toilets but no garbage collection services on site. This is…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and water troughs. Campground has piped drinking water, vault toilets but no garbage collection services…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
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 $4 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 ($4), 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
Yellowjacket Guard StationAnadromous Spawning Area Anadromous Spawning Area · 7.8 miMcdonald Flat CampgroundSalmon National Forest · 12 miEbenezer CampgroundSalmon National Forest · 14 miDeep Creek CampgroundSalmon National Forest · 15 miCorn Creek Boat Ramp & CampgroundSalmon National Forest · 20 miThe weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Salmon, ID
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
Bighorn Crags 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 →