Dent Acres
1Heads up1 fire 40 mi away
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:19 UTC
- A night
- $25From, per site
- Sites
- 44All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located in northern Idaho's beautiful Clearwater Valley, Dent acres Campground on Dworshak Lake is surrounded by forests and abundant wildlife. Dworshak Lake is 54 miles long, hosts kokanee salmon, rainbow trout and small mouth bass fishing. It has excellent boating, water skiing and hunting opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Dent Acres is an excellent location for boaters, fishermen, hunters, hikers, wildlife watching, as well as quiet relaxation. There is a boat ramp for access to the reservoir, multiple trails for hiking, and thousands of surrounding acres of public lands for the hunter.
Facilities
Dent Acres features 49 pull through camping sites and one back-in only site. The campground can accommodate everything from tent camping to large RVs. All sites have water and 50/30 amp electricity hookups as well as sewage hookups, a fire pit and a covered picnic table. The campground offers flush toilets and a shower house. Adjacent to the campground is a playground and plenty of open space for activities. There are also flush toilet restrooms and a fish cleaning station located near the boat ramp. There are several large trash dumpsters near the boat dock. There is a large reservable sun shelter, which can accomodate up to 75 people. Pets are recquired to be under owner's physical control and on a 6 foot leash at all times. Quiet hours are from 10pm to 6am. Check in time is 3pm, Check out time is 1200 (noon).
Natural Features
Dworshak Reservoir is surrounded by steep forested, mountainous country. Numerous small creeks feed the reservoir. Nearby Attractions -Dent Bridge, which spans Dworshak Reservoir, is approximately one mile east of Dent Acres and is the largest cable suspension bridge in the state of Idaho. -Dworshak Dam and Visitor Center -Dworshak Hatchery -Clearwater National Forest -Clearwater Historical Society and Museum - Weippe Discovery Center -Canoe Camp -Nez Perce (National Park site at Spalding) -Orofino Chamber of Commerce Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (208) 476-1255.
What the agency tells you
The Visitor Center may be reached at: (208) 476-1255 for any questions.
The road from Orofino, Idaho, to Dent Acres Campground is 19 miles in length, 4 miles are steep with horseshoe curves.
No gasoline is available at Dent Acres Campground. No ice is available at Dent Acres.
Everything else this campground posts · 8
Three night minimum is required for Memorial Day, July 4th and Labor Day. weekends.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information. Purchase firewood in Orofino for best prices.
Stay Limit: The 14 day stay limit is strictly enforced. Camping for a period longer than 14 days during any 30-consecutive day period is prohibited. If you have booked back-to-back reservations, you will be asked to cancel all days after the first 14.
Dent Acres has only reservable sites. No walk-in sites available. Please have a reservation before arriving.
During the non-peak season (September-December) the reservation system will still be in affect. Please have a reservation before arriving. Contact our visitor center with any questions or concerns
Contact our Visitor Center for more information (208)476-1255
30/50 amp service available at all sites.
Dogs MUST be on 6ft or shorter leash and under owners control at all times.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 44 · 1 group
- Hookups
- 44 electric, 43 water, 43 sewer
- Longest rig
- 35 ft
- Paved pads
- 43 of 44
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 43 of 44 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- PIT TOILETS on 1 of 52 campsite records
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “The campground offers flush toilets and a shower house.”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 322nd darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 2
20 of 58 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:19 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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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.
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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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $25 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:19 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
52 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 45 mapped sitesAll 52 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 44 of the 52 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Group Camp | Group Camp | group standard electric | 50/50 amp | 363 ft | 629 ft | $150 | ||
| Sites 1 to 7 | 001-Host | host pad | 35 ft | 50 amp | yes | $25 | ||
| Sites 1 to 7 | 002-Host | host pad | 35 ft | 50 amp | yes | $25 | ||
| Sites 1 to 7 | 003-Host | host pad | 35 ft | 50 amp | yes | $25 | ||
| Sites 1 to 7 | 004-Host | host pad | 35 ft | 50 amp | yes | $25 | ||
| Sites 1 to 7 | 005-Host | host pad | 35 ft | 50 amp | yes | $25 | ||
| Sites 1 to 7 | 006-Host | host pad | 35 ft | 50 amp | yes | $25 | ||
| Sites 1 to 7 | 007-Host | host pad | 35 ft | 50 amp | yes | $25 | ||
| Sites 16 to 30 | 016 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 144 ft | 122 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 16 to 30 | 017 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 58 ft | 497 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 16 to 30 | 018 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 58 ft | 548 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 16 to 30 | 019 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 65 ft | 632 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 16 to 30 | 020 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 49 ft | 703 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 16 to 30 | 021 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 61 ft | 771 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 16 to 30 | 022 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 61 ft | 801 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 16 to 30 | 023 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 79 ft | 720 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 16 to 30 | 024 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 79 ft | 652 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 16 to 30 | 025 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 78 ft | 569 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 16 to 30 | 026 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 78 ft | 507 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 16 to 30 | 027 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 82 ft | 443 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 16 to 30 | 028 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/50/30 amp | 70 ft | 374 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 16 to 30 | 029 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 70 ft | 313 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 16 to 30 | 030 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 44 ft | 265 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 37 to 50 | 037 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 49 ft | 679 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 37 to 50 | 038 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 65 ft | 583 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 37 to 50 | 039 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 69 ft | 504 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 37 to 50 | 040 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 77 ft | 429 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 37 to 50 | 041 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 83 ft | 335 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 37 to 50 | 042 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 83 ft | 259 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 37 to 50 | 043 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 84 ft | 195 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 37 to 50 | 044 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 68 ft | 295 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 37 to 50 | 045 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 67 ft | 340 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 37 to 50 | 046 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 67 ft | 398 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 37 to 50 | 047 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30/50 amp | 79 ft | 486 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 37 to 50 | 048 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 69 ft | 564 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 37 to 50 | 049 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 69 ft | 634 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 37 to 50 | 050 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 80 ft | 713 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 8 to 15, 31 to 36 | 008 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 739 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 8 to 15, 31 to 36 | 009 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/50/30 amp | 65 ft | 689 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 8 to 15, 31 to 36 | 010 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 60 ft | 650 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 8 to 15, 31 to 36 | 011 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 76 ft | 593 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 8 to 15, 31 to 36 | 012 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 81 ft | 531 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 8 to 15, 31 to 36 | 013 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 66 ft | 474 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 8 to 15, 31 to 36 | 014 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 78 ft | 422 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 8 to 15, 31 to 36 | 015 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 75 ft | 350 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 8 to 15, 31 to 36 | 031 | standard electric | 35 ft | 30/50 amp | 44 ft | 287 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 8 to 15, 31 to 36 | 032 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 78 ft | 348 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 8 to 15, 31 to 36 | 033 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 66 ft | 428 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 8 to 15, 31 to 36 | 034 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 76 ft | 535 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 8 to 15, 31 to 36 | 035 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 60 ft | 604 ft | $25 | |
| Sites 8 to 15, 31 to 36 | 036 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50/30/50 amp | 79 ft | 649 ft | $25 | |
| Sun Shelter | Sun Shelter | day use | 50 amp | yes | 484 ft | 262 ft | $40 |
The agency files 8 more records here that aren’t sites for the night: 1 it files as day use and 7 it names a host pad. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
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.
25 of 52 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Pink House Recreation Site10 miElk Creek Campground11 miPartridge Creek CampgroundSt. Joe National Forest · 12 mi
Elk Creek Campground (Clearwater NF)St. Joe National Forest · 12 miLittle Boulder CampgroundSt. Joe National Forest · 15 miFrom Hwy 12: Cross the bridge at Orofino and turn left onto Hwy 7. Travel 200 yards and turn right on Dent Bridge Road and travel 19 miles. At the sign for the campground, turn left. Campground is 2 miles ahead.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Orofino, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 39°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 28°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Dent Acres 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 →