Bonneville
1Heads up1 fire 38 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20–$40Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 22All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Bonneville Campground is 19 miles east of Lowman, Idaho just off Highway 21 at an elevation of 4,700 feet. Warm Springs Creek runs alongside the campground and the South Fork Payette River lies across the highway. Visitors enjoy soaking at Bonneville Hot Springs a short distance above the campground, and fishing in the creek and river. Keep reading
Recreation
A 1/4-mile hiking trail leads from the campground to Bonneville Hot Springs, where a soaking pool awaits. Warm Springs Creek offers good trout fishing. The South Fork Payette River offers whitewater rafting, kayaking and trout fishing. The Deadwood River Access area is located near Lowman.
Facilities
The campground contains several accessible single-family sites and one double site, each equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring with grill. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. A campground host is on-site.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on a bluff overlooking Warm Springs Creek. A forest of towering Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir covers the campground. Most campsites have plentiful shade. Summer wildflowers dot the landscape. Deer and elk may be seen wandering through the area on occasion.
Nearby Attractions
Numerous natural hot springs pools can be found along Highway 21, also known as the Ponderosa Pine Scenic Byway, and the Banks-Lowman Highway, also known as the Wildlife Canyon Scenic Byway. Both byways offer scenic views, wildlife watching, historical information kiosks and several trail opportunities. Whitewater rafting and kayaking are popular activities on the South Fork and Main Payette Rivers. Several companies in the area offer guided half and full-day trips.
What the agency tells you
Idaho OHV Safety Message
Maximum of 2 vehicles allowed at single sites, 4 vehicles at double site; extra vehicles will be charged $5 at the campground
Day use fee for non-campers is $5
Everything else this campground posts · 4
There are no electric, water or sewer site hookups available
Please contact the Lowman Ranger District at 208-259-3361 for off-season camping information
Click here for more information on the Boise National Forest
Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pests in our national forests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 22 · 4 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 100 ft
- Accessible sites
- 8
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…table and campfire ring with grill. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…campfire ring with grill. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. A campground…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, River, Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 226th darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
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 · 15
What you actually pay
“extra vehicles will be charged $5 at the campground” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$40 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
22 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 22 mapped sitesAll 22 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. 22 of the 22 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| BONN | 016 - Double Site | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 150 ft | 195 ft | $20–$40 |
| SING | 001 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 69 ft | 184 ft | $20–$40 | |
| SING | 002 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 68 ft | 125 ft | $20–$40 | |
| SING | 003 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | yes | 68 ft | 191 ft | $20–$40 |
| SING | 004 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | yes | 81 ft | 140 ft | $20–$40 |
| SING | 005 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 84 ft | 128 ft | $20–$40 |
| SING | 006 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 84 ft | 195 ft | $20–$40 |
| SING | 007 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 72 ft | 291 ft | $20–$40 | |
| SING | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 72 ft | 286 ft | $20–$40 |
| SING | 009 | tent only nonelectric | 79 ft | 202 ft | $20 | ||
| SING | 010 | tent only nonelectric | 158 ft | 115 ft | $20 | ||
| SING | 011 | tent only nonelectric | 79 ft | 171 ft | $20 | ||
| SING | 012 | tent only nonelectric | 116 ft | 67 ft | $20 | ||
| SING | 013 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 106 ft | 278 ft | $20–$40 | |
| SING | 014 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | yes | 92 ft | 296 ft | $20–$40 |
| SING | 015 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 47 ft | 234 ft | $20–$40 | |
| SING | 017 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | yes | 120 ft | 100 ft | $20–$40 |
| SING | 018 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 47 ft | 197 ft | $20–$40 | |
| SING | 019 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 75 ft | 180 ft | $20–$40 | |
| SING | 020 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 75 ft | 117 ft | $20–$40 | |
| SING | 021 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 57 ft | 198 ft | $20–$40 | |
| SING | 022 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 57 ft | 145 ft | $20–$40 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Warm Springs Guard StationBoise National Forest · 1.2 miSawtooth National Forest - Grandjean CampgroundBoise National Forest · 7.9 miGrandjean CampgroundBoise National Forest · 8.0 mi
HelendeBoise National Forest · 9.1 mi
Bull TroutBoise National Forest · 11 mi
Bull Trout Lake Campground & Group sitesBoise National Forest · 11 miFrom Boise, Idaho, take State Highway 55 to Banks. Turn East on Banks Lowman Highway 17 to Lowman. Turn left on Highway 21. The campground is located at milepost 91.5.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lowman, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 28°F, day 62°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 14°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Bonneville 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 →