Cloverleaf Campground
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- A night
- $20–$34Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 19All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 1Opens May 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Cloverleaf Campground is situated on St. Charles Creek in a scenic canyon in the forests of southeast Idaho. Keep reading
Recreation
Nearby, the North Fork Trail and its associated trails access the Highline Trail #316. The Highline Trail is part of the National Trail System and is the area's premier trail. It stretches 55 miles along the backbone of the Wasatch Mountains and is open to hikers, mountain bikers, horseback riders and motorcyclists, attracting trail users from around the world. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game manages the river fisheries, providing excellent fishing most of the year, including in St. Charles Creek. In-season big game hunting is also a popular activity.
Facilities
The campground offers 18 family sites, as well as one group site that can accommodate up to 100 people. Amenities include flush toilets and drinking water. Roads to and within the site are paved.
Natural Features
Pines and aspens forest the area, providing partial shade, and summer wildflowers dot the landscape. St. Charles Creek flows gently past the campground.
Nearby Attractions
Minnetonka Cave, one of only two developed caves in the Forest Service, is a few miles from the campground. Guided cave tours are scheduled every 30 minutes daily from early June until Labor Day. The Bear Lake National Wildlife Refuge is just north of Bear Lake, offering excellent bird watching. Bear Lake's Raspberry Days Festival occurs the first weekend in August every year, with a parade, fireworks, craft booths and a rodeo.
What the agency tells you
Electric hookups are not available
Wildlife Caution
Idaho Off-road Vehicle Safety Message
Everything else this campground posts · 5
A $5 fee will be charged for each additional vehicle
America The Beautiful Access Pass and Golden Age passport holders receive 50% off on single family sites only
This is a 'pack it in, pack it out' facility; please bring garbage bags
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.
Check-in Time is 2:00pm and Check-out time is 12:00pm
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 19 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…up to 100 people. Amenities include flush toilets and drinking water. Roads to and within the site…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Amenities include flush toilets and drinking water. Roads to and within the site are paved. Natural…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Night sky · 454th darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 9 days ago, 30 km away
- Past peak
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
“A $5 fee will be charged for each additional vehicle” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$34 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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
19 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 19 mapped sitesAll 19 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 19 of the 19 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 18 of the 19 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| 1 | 1 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 100 ft | 495 ft | 518 ft | $20–$34 |
| 1 | 10 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 82 ft | 33 ft | 784 ft | $20–$34 |
| 1 | 11 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 118 ft | 70 ft | 832 ft | $20–$34 |
| 1 | 12 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 102 ft | 89 ft | 843 ft | $20–$34 |
| 1 | 13 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 96 ft | 186 ft | 747 ft | $20–$34 |
| 1 | 14 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 120 ft | 128 ft | 868 ft | $20–$34 |
| 1 | 15 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 91 ft | 248 ft | 799 ft | $20–$34 |
| 1 | 16 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 81 ft | 224 ft | 742 ft | $20–$34 |
| 1 | 17 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 81 ft | 295 ft | 661 ft | $20–$34 |
| 1 | 18 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 91 ft | 330 ft | 723 ft | $20–$34 |
| 1 | 2 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 100 ft | 492 ft | 463 ft | $20–$34 |
| 1 | 3 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 97 ft | 390 ft | 584 ft | $20–$34 |
| 1 | 4 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 107 ft | 396 ft | 480 ft | $20–$34 |
| 1 | 5 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 96 ft | 261 ft | 656 ft | $20–$34 |
| 2 | 6 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 82 ft | 84 ft | 708 ft | $20–$34 |
| 2 | 7 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 128 ft | 123 ft | 666 ft | $20–$34 |
| 2 | 8 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 112 ft | 235 ft | 538 ft | $20–$34 |
| 2 | 9 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 112 ft | 240 ft | 572 ft | $20–$34 |
| Big Creek Grp | GS1 | group standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 271 ft | 280 ftNorth Fork Saint Charles Creek | 810 ft |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
NORTH FORK CAMPGROUND - St. CHARLES CANYONCache National Forest · 0.1 mi
Porcupine (ID)Cache National Forest · 0.6 mi
Davis Canyon CampgroundCache National Forest · 2.4 mi
Egan Basin Guard StationCache National Forest · 3.5 mi
St. Charles CampgroundCache National Forest · 4.6 miBeaver Creek CampgroundCache National Forest · 5.2 miTurn west off U.S. Highway 89 in St. Charles, Idaho. Follow the paved road for approximately 8 miles, up St. Charles Canyon to the campground. Turn left to access the individual group sites and right to access the Big Creek Group Area.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for St. Charles, ID
Typical weather
Typical May night 38°F, day 61°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 38°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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.
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
Cloverleaf 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 →