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

Castle Creek Campground

1Heads up1 fire 35 mi away
Wildfire
Cedar Knob fire · 35 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 14, 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
OpenThe agency lists it open
A night
$12From, per site
Season
Year-roundOpen year-round
Drawn from the record · 2,840 ft · 0% tree cover · South Fork Clearwater River within reach · Bortle 2 sky
2,840 ftElevation
613 ftWater · South Fork Clearwater River
9 miSE of Grangeville, ID
0%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 259th darkest of 523 in ID
Open year-roundToday

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Castle Creek Campground is located along the South Fork of the Clearwater River at milepost 14 on Highway 14 east of Grangeville, Idaho. The campground has 9 units with picnic tables, water, and toilets. There is also access for RVs and trailers. This is a first-come first-served campground. The water system is currently turned off but will be restored.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
River, Creek
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 $12 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$12Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$24DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 6

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night, from$12
Night .$12
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicle$3

“There is an additional fee of $3 for each extra vehicle.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record

What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$12
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$24

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($12), 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 · 6
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

Today74°Sunny
Tonight47°Partly Cloudy
Saturday71°Mostly Sunny
Saturday Night40°Partly Cloudy

NWS forecast for Grangeville, ID

Typical weather

Typical October night 37°F, day 58°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical December night 24°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°10°

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 Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.

Measured at: GRANGEVILLE, ID (USC00103771), 10 miles away and 460 ft higher

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Russ Fulcher, official portrait

Castle Creek Campground 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 →

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How we know

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