Dog Creek (ID)
1Heads up1 fire 19 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 13All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Dog Creek Campground is located on the banks of Dog Creek, at the foot of the Trinity Mountain Range. It is four miles from the town of Pine, in south-central Idaho. Visitors enjoy fishing, swimming and exploring local trails. Keep reading
Recreation
The South Fork Boise River is less than a quarter-mile away from the campground, offering rafting, swimming and fishing for rainbow trout. Paradise Hot Springs is nearby. Green Creek Trail 270, a 4.5-mile trail for hiking, horseback riding, biking and off-road vehicles, begins a mile from the site. Cross Cut Trail 172 begins close by and is open to hiking, biking, horseback riding and off-road vehicles.
Facilities
This quiet campground sits off the main road. It offers two small group campsites that can accommodate up to 15 people each. Eleven single-family campsites are available as well. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Roads and parking spurs within the campground are gravel.
Natural Features
The campground is situated in a scenic ponderosa pine forest, at an elevation of 4,600 feet. Summer wildflowers are plentiful and deer and hummingbirds frequent the area.
Nearby Attractions
Baumgartner Hot Springs is approximately 16 miles away with a soaking pool and nature trail. Kelly Creek Flats Recreation Area is adjacent to Baumgartner, with several more trail opportunities.
What the agency tells you
Idaho OHV Safety Message
Bring the reservation confirmation letter to the campground
Electricity and telephone service is not available
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Additional first-come, first-served sites may be available
Click here for more information on the Boise 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
- 13 · 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campsites are available as well. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Roads and parking…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…are available as well. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Roads and parking spurs within the…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, River, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 340th darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 2
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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 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
13 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 13 mapped sitesAll 13 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. 13 of the 13 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| DOG | 002 | group standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 163 ft | 194 ft | $30 |
| DOG | 013 | group standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 167 ft | 835 ft | $30 |
| FAM | 001 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 205 ft | 233 ft | $20 |
| FAM | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 110 ft | 352 ft | $20 |
| FAM | 004 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 110 ft | 358 ft | $20 |
| FAM | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 128 ft | 262 ft | $20 |
| FAM | 006 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 100 ft | 384 ft | $20 |
| FAM | 007 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 100 ft | 310 ft | $20 |
| FAM | 008 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 96 ft | 491 ft | $20 |
| FAM | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 94 ft | 583 ft | $20 |
| FAM | 010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 45 ft | 538 ft | $20 |
| FAM | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 45 ft | 577 ft | $20 |
| FAM | 012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 167 ft | 859 ft | $20 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Elks Flat CampgroundBoise National Forest · 0.7 miPine Campground Boat Ramp5.0 miIce Springs CampgroundBoise National Forest · 5.6 miCurlew Creek CampgroundBoise National Forest · 6.5 miAbbott CampgroundSawtooth National Forest · 7.0 miChaparral CampgroundSawtooth National Forest · 7.8 miFrom Mountain Home, travel east on Highway 20 for 35 miles, to the turnoff for Pine/Featherville (Forest Highway 61). Travel north on Highway 61 for 23 miles 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 Fairfield, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 28°F, day 61°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 9°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
Dog Creek (ID) 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 →