Curlew Campground
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $20–$60Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 1514 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 26 – September 9Open May 26 through September 9
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Curlew Campground is located just seven miles north of Snowville, Utah, and fewer than 10 miles south of Holbrook, Idaho. The campground is adjacent to Stone Reservoir in the Curlew National Grassland. It sits at an elevation of 4,700 feet. Keep reading
Recreation
Stone Reservoir is closed to all motor crafts, boats and water crafts do to invasive spieces. The surrounding area is crisscrossed by numerous off-road vehicle trails. Horseback riding is allowed on the open range.
Facilities
The campground is open year-round and contains one large group site that can accommodate up to 200 people. A picnic shelter, picnic and serving tables, grills, campfire rings, and cement site pad and horseshoe pits are provided. Several single sites and one triple-family campsite, and vault toilets are available. Each individual campsite is equipped with tables, campfire rings and grills. Most sites have small picnic shelters for shade. Site 14 is accessible, with a cement site pad and paved parking spur. The campground has first-come, first-serve campsites and reservable campsites. Visitors can check the kiosk board for available campsites, check if the campsite is occupied, and if available pay at the fee tube. There are no electric, water or sewer site hookups. The road within the campground is paved and parking spurs, unless otherwise noted, are gravel. Security is provided by the hosta and periodic patrols by the county sheriff. Curlew Campground is managed by Pinnacle Parks Llc under a special use permit with the Caribou-Targhee National Forest. For questions please contact 208-757-3999 between the hours of 8am and 9pm.
Natural Features
The surrounding area is an open desert environment dotted with sagebrush and very few trees. The campground contains open, mowed lawns. Natural shade is very limited. Curlew National Grassland offers great areas for year-round birding. Some of the birds found in the area include Sage Thrasher, Vesper Sparrow, Brewer's Sparrow, Ash-throated Flycatcher and Scott's Oriole. Sharp-tailed grouse are best viewed in March and April. Nesters include the Ferruginous Hawk, Common Poorwill, Gray Flycatcher, Pinyon and Western Scrub-Jays, Juniper Titmouse, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Mountain Bluebird and Loggerhead Shrike. Redhead, Ring-necked duck, Canvasback and Lesser Scaup can often be seen near Stone Reservoir. Fall brings Canada and Snow geese. Wintering birds include Killdeer, Marsh Wren and song sparrows. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (208) 757-3999.
What the agency tells you
Curlew Campground is managed by Pinnacle Parks Llc under a special use permit with the Caribou-Targhee National Forest. For questions please contact 208-757-3999 between the hours of 8am and 9pm.
There are no electric, water or sewer site hookups
The campground has first-come, first-serve campsites and reservable campsites. Visitors can check the kiosk board for available campsites, check if the campsite is occupied, and if available pay at the fee tube.
Everything else this campground posts · 8
An additonal fee of $5 will be collected on-site for extra vehicles parked in a campsite. The Allowable Vehicle/Driveway Details section has information on maximum vehicles allowed for individual campsites. Single sites: 1 vehicle, Double Sites: 2 vehicles, Triple Site: 3 vehicles
If interested in staying at the campground during the non-peak season please contact the Westside Ranger District at 208-236-7500.
Stone Reservoir is closed to all motor crafts, boats and water crafts do to invasive spieces.
Horses are not allowed in the campground
Wildlife Caution
Idaho OHV Safety Message
Click here for more information on the Caribou-Targhee 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
- 15 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 70 ft
- Paved pads
- 2 of 15
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 14 of 15 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and one triple-family campsite, and vault toilets are available. Each individual campsite is equipped…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir
- Biking
- Fishing
- Horseback riding
- Swimming
- Night sky · 327th darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 14 of the 15 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.
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 · 16
What you actually pay
“An additonal fee of $5 will be collected on-site for extra vehicles parked in a campsite.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$60 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
15 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 6 mapped sitesAll 15 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. 15 of the 15 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Curlew Campground | 006 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | $20–$60 | |||
| Curlew Campground | 008 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | $20–$60 | |||
| CURLEW CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 111 ft | 198 ft | $20–$60 | |
| CURLEW CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 111 ft | 216 ft | $20–$60 | |
| CURLEW CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 70 ft | 175 ft | $20–$60 | |
| CURLEW CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 70 ft | 230 ft | $20–$60 | |
| CURLEW CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | $20–$60 | ||||
| CURLEW CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $20–$60 | |||
| CURLEW CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $20–$60 | |||
| CURLEW CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | $20–$60 | |||
| CURLEW CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | $20–$60 | |||
| CURLEW CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | $20–$60 | |||
| CURLEW CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | yes | 822 ft | 332 ft | $20–$60 |
| CURLEW CAMPGROUND | 015 | group standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 389 ft | 568 ft | $80 |
| S&P | Standard S&P | type not stated | 60 ft | $20 |
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
Dry Canyon CampgroundCaribou National Forest · 28 mi
Malad Summit CampgroundCaribou National Forest · 29 mi
Malad Summit Guard StationCaribou National Forest · 29 miMill Flat CampgroundSawtooth National Forest · 30 mi
Third Creek Group SiteCaribou National Forest · 30 miTake the Snowville, Utah, exit off Interstate 84, northwest of Tremonton. Continue north on the paved highway for 6.5 miles. Turn left (north) at the Curlew Campground sign, then go another half-mile on a gravel road to the campground.
From Holbrook, Idaho, travel 24 miles west of Malad and continue south for 7.5 miles on the paved highway. Turn right (west) following the same highway and go almost 2 miles to the Curlew Campground turnoff. Turn right (north) on gravel road and go a half-mile to the campground. The route is relatively easy for RVs.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Snowville, UT
Typical weather
Typical May night 39°F, day 70°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 39°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Curlew 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 →