Burgdorf
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 17 mi
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 53 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Forested campground adjacent to open meadows at an elevation of 6,250'. Three sites are situated among the trees, each outfitted with a picnic table and fire ring. This location is available on a first-come, first-served basis only. Visitors are required to physically arrive at the campground to purchase and claim a site. Once on-site, you may be able to pay for your campsite(s) by scanning a QR code using the Recreation.gov mobile app, and the Scan and Pay feature. If this option is available, you will need to first download the free Recreation.gov mobile app https://www.recreation.gov/mobile-app prior to your arrival as some remote areas have limited or no cellular service. Keep reading
Recreation
This area is a hub for recreation. Several trails depart from the Burgdorf Campground: Nethker Creek Trail #143, Jeanette Creek Trail #140, Burgdorf-1 Trail #175, Burgdorf-2 Trail #176. The campground is also located next to the Burgdorf Guard Station, a former Forest Service working station. Additionally, this area is within driving distance of several other areas of interest, including Burgdorf Hot Springs, the Warren Guard Station, and the historic towns of Secesh and Warren.
Facilities
Three sites are spaced among the trees, with picnic tables and fire rings at each. All sites are available on a first come, first serve basis. There is a vault toilet and potable water. There are no hookups and no trash receptacles; please pack out your trash. Volunteer Camp Hosts are present from June to September to assist visitors.
Natural Features
Forested campground adjacent to open meadows at an elevation of 6,250 feet. Summer days are typically warm and nights are cool.
Nearby Attractions
The nearby Burgdorf Hot Springs is privately owned, featuring three developed pools with sandy bottoms.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 5
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…come, first serve basis. There is a vault toilet and potable water. There are no hookups and no…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…serve basis. There is a vault toilet and potable water. There are no hookups and no trash receptacles;…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, Creek, Meadow
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 3 of the 5 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
5 sites · the site map
All 5 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. 5 of the 5 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Burgdorf | 1 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Burgdorf | 2 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Burgdorf | 3 | standard nonelectric | $10 | |
| Host | 1 | type not stated | $10 | |
| Scan and Pay | Standard | type not stated | 289 ft | $10 |
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
Burgdorf Guard StationPayette National Forest · 0.1 mi
JeanettePayette National Forest · 0.7 mi
ChinookPayette National Forest · 6.4 miUpper Payette Lake Group CampgroundPayette National Forest · 11 mi
Upper Payette Lake CampgroundPayette National Forest · 12 mi
Hazard LakePayette National Forest · 12 miTravel approximately 30 miles north of McCall on paved Warren Wagon Road. Turn left on Forest Road #246 and travel 2 miles on gravel road to campground.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Riggins, 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
Burgdorf 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 →