U.S. Forest Service · Sawtooth National Forest · ID
Boundary Campground and Picnic Area
1Heads up1 fire 32 mi away
Wildfire
East Fork fire · 32 mi away · 1 acres · updated Oct 17, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 17, 2026
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- Shut for nowOutside the published season, our reading
- Season
- – September 30Closes September 30. No opening date published.
6,090 ftElevation
118 ftWater · Trail Creek
0.1 miN of Sun Valley, ID
33%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 403rd darkest of 523 in ID
Closes September 30. No opening date published.Today
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Boundary Campground is a developed, fee, non-reservation campground composed of 9 campsites located on Trail Creek approximately 2 miles northeast of the Sun Valley Resort Village. The 4-unit Boundary Picnic Area is adjacent to the campground and shares a vault toilet and hand pump for drinking water with it. The campground and picnic area are open the Friday before Memorial Day to September 30 annually. Amenities include drinking water from a hand pump; 2 vault toilets; refuse service; and a fire ring, grill stand, and picnic table in each site. Campsites also have a designated location to pitch a tent. Keep reading
Camp and picnic sites have hardened aprons allowing wheelchair access. Access roads and parking spurs are gravel. Toilets are ADA-accessible. Dogs must be leashed in the campground and picnic area, and their solid waste picked up and disposed of properly. Stock is not permitted. Campsites 1 and 7 are double units. Stay limit is 3 days and check-out time is 2:00 pm. The campground and picnic area are mostly open with large cottonwood trees providing intermittent shade. The campground has beautiful views of Bald Mountain Ski Area to the west.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…adjacent to the campground and shares a vault toilet and hand pump for drinking water with it. The…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…campground and shares a vault toilet and hand pump for drinking water with it. The campground and…”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Fall color · reported 7 days ago, 11 km away
- Past peak
Source: Stated in the agency description
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (11 km) · Oct 10, 2026
Phone before you drive
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.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 6
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
Single units $10.00 per day.
Double unit $20.00 per day.
Check-out time is 2:00 pm.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near hereBoundary (ID)Sawtooth National Forest · 0.1 mi
North Fork (ID)Sawtooth National Recreation Area · 6.8 miMurdock CampgroundSawtooth National Recreation Area · 7.3 miWood River CampgroundSawtooth National Recreation Area · 8.3 mi
Wood River Group Overnight Area (Tent Only)Sawtooth National Recreation Area · 8.3 miCaribou CampgroundSawtooth National Recreation Area · 8.5 mi
North Fork (ID)Sawtooth National Recreation Area · 6.8 miMurdock CampgroundSawtooth National Recreation Area · 7.3 miWood River CampgroundSawtooth National Recreation Area · 8.3 miWood River Group Overnight Area (Tent Only)Sawtooth National Recreation Area · 8.3 miCaribou CampgroundSawtooth National Recreation Area · 8.5 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Overnight33°Partly Cloudy
Saturday66°Mostly Sunny
Saturday Night33°Partly Cloudy
Sunday64°Mostly Sunny
NWS forecast for Sun Valley, ID
Source: National Weather Service, PIH forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical September night 36°F, day 69°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical September night 36°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
90°32°0°
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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: KETCHUM RS, ID (USC00104845), 3 miles away and 200 ft lower
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
Roadless
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026
Who answers for this land
Boundary Campground and Picnic Area 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: Today falls outside the season the agency publishes, and it has posted nothing else. That reading is ours.
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (11 km) · Oct 10, 2026
Reported by: iNaturalist fall color observations, reported past peak · Oct 10, 2026
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.