U.S. Forest Service · Challis National Forest · ID

Blind Creek Campground

1Heads up1 fire 44 mi away
Wildfire
East Fork fire · 44 mi away · 1 acres · updated Oct 17, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.

This is how it should work.

Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$5From, per site
Drawn from the record · 6,000 ft · 44% tree cover · Blind Creek within reach · Bortle 2 sky
6,000 ftElevation
70 ftWater · Blind Creek
43.2 miNW of Ketchum, ID
44%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 206th darkest of 523 in ID

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

This campground is the first of several campsites along the canyon formed by the Yankee Fork of the Salmon River. Fishing for rainbow trout in the river, and interpretive and historical tours available nearby. Each site has picnic tables, fire rings with cooking grills. There is a Vault toilet. The sites accommodate trailers and motorhomes up to 32 feet.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets
“…rings with cooking grills. There is a Vault toilet. The sites accommodate trailers and motorhomes up…”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
River
Source: Stated in the agency description

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 $5 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.

BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
A night$5Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$10DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 5

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night, from$5
Site per night$5
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$5
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$10

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($5), 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
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today63°Mostly Sunny
Tonight33°Mostly Cloudy
Sunday61°Mostly Sunny
Sunday Night32°Mostly Clear

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.

90°32°0°

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.

Measured at: STANLEY RS, ID (USW00004112), 12 miles away and 495 ft higher

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Mike Simpson, official portrait

Blind 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
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: Stanley, ID, 10.6 mi ENE. Straight line.