Devils Elbow
1Heads up1 fire 44 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $26From, per site
- Sites
- 2120 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Devil's Elbow Campground is perched on the banks of the North Fork Coeur d'Alene River, providing a perfect escape for a warm summer weekend. Here, visitors can camp in tents or RVs and spend their days fishing or floating the river. Keep reading
Recreation
Rafting, swimming and kayaking are favorite activities on the river. Rafters will find class I-III rapids further down the river. Catch-and-release cutthroat trout fishing is also popular. Visitors also enjoy explore the river valley on foot to see nearby Downey Creek or Valitons Creek.
Facilities
Devil's Elbow Campground has 20 campsites including one host site and a group site. The group site can accommodate up to 50 people. Amenities include hand-pump drinking water and vault toilets. Campground roads are paved and parking spurs are short but wide enough for parking two vehicles alongside a trailer.
Natural Features
The campground sits among lodgepole and other mixed pines along the river at an elevation of 2,600 feet. The area is located in the Coeur d'ALene Mountains, 69 miles from popular Coeur d'Alene Lake. Wildlife watchers and photographers have the chance to see mule deer, moose, osprey and calliope hummingbirds.
What the agency tells you
Extra Vehicles: One vehicle is included in your single campsite fee. Each additional vehicle will be charged a per day fee. If that fee is not paid with your reservation, it will be collected on site (cash or check only). Maximum two vehicles per site.
Bears frequent the area; keep all food out of sight in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from area after eating
SCRS & Recreation.gov policy states we will keep your reserved site until check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. If you haven't occupied it at any time during this period, your reservation is null and void and will be given to first come first serve campers. Your reservation will be a no show and no refund will be given.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
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.
This campground has first-come, first-served sites
Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
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Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 21 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 100 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…include hand-pump drinking water and vault toilets. Campground roads are paved and parking spurs are…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…50 people. Amenities include hand-pump drinking water and vault toilets. Campground roads are paved and…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host Site”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Night sky · 378th darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 20 of the 21 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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $26 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
21 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 20 mapped sitesAll 21 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. 20 of the 21 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| DEVI | 001 | standard nonelectric | 87 ft | 129 ft | 491 ftNorth Fork Coeur d'Alene River | $26 |
| DEVI | 002 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 91 ft | 355 ftNorth Fork Coeur d'Alene River | $26 |
| DEVI | 003 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 91 ft | 418 ftNorth Fork Coeur d'Alene River | $26 |
| DEVI | 004 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 103 ft | 319 ftNorth Fork Coeur d'Alene River | $26 |
| DEVI | 005 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 103 ft | 216 ftNorth Fork Coeur d'Alene River | $26 |
| DEVI | 006 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 126 ft | 107 ftNorth Fork Coeur d'Alene River | $26 |
| DEVI | 007 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 110 ft | 40 ftNorth Fork Coeur d'Alene River | $26 |
| DEVI | 008 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 110 ft | 44 ftNorth Fork Coeur d'Alene River | $26 |
| DEVI | 009 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 82 ft | 141 ftNorth Fork Coeur d'Alene River | $26 |
| DEVI | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 82 ft | 81 ftNorth Fork Coeur d'Alene River | $26 |
| DEVI | 011 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 71 ft | 169 ftNorth Fork Coeur d'Alene River | $26 |
| DEVI | 012 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 71 ft | 100 ftNorth Fork Coeur d'Alene River | $26 |
| DEVI | 013 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 121 ft | 173 ftNorth Fork Coeur d'Alene River | $26 |
| DEVI | 014 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 87 ft | 277 ftNorth Fork Coeur d'Alene River | $26 |
| DEVI | 015 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 87 ft | 310 ftNorth Fork Coeur d'Alene River | $26 |
| DEVI | 016 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 136 ft | 437 ftNorth Fork Coeur d'Alene River | $26 |
| DEVI | 017 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 98 ft | 393 ftNorth Fork Coeur d'Alene River | $26 |
| DEVI | 018 | type not stated | 20 ft | 483 ftNorth Fork Coeur d'Alene River | ||
| DEVI | 019 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 98 ft | 425 ftNorth Fork Coeur d'Alene River | $26 |
| DEVI | 020 | standard nonelectric | 10 ft | 104 ft | 514 ftNorth Fork Coeur d'Alene River | $26 |
| DEVI | GROUP | group standard nonelectric | 272 ft | 199 ftNorth Fork Coeur d'Alene River | $102 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Berlin FlatsCoeur d'Alene National Forest · 0.0 mi
Devil's Elbow CampgroundCoeur d'Alene National Forest · 0.8 mi
Kit PriceCoeur d'Alene National Forest · 1.8 mi
Little Guard LookoutCoeur d'Alene National Forest · 2.5 miBerlin Flats Group CampgroundCoeur d'Alene National Forest · 3.5 mi
Big HankCoeur d'Alene National Forest · 5.4 miFrom I-90, take Exit 43 (Kingston) and travel 20 miles north on FH9 to Prichard. Continue 11 miles north on Forest Road 208 to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Kellogg, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 22°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 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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Devils Elbow 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 →