Easley Campground
1Heads up1 fire 23 mi away
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $20–$40Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 10All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Easley Campground is located along the beautiful Big Wood River at an elevation of 6800 feet, conveniently close to Ketchum, Idaho only 14 miles south. Visitors enjoy fishing, hiking and soaking at Easley Hot Springs. Keep reading
Recreation
Easley is part of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, where outdoor activities abound. Fly-fishing for rainbow, brown and brook trout is popular on the Big Wood River, as is float tubing. The 20-mile Harriman Trail passes through the campground, offering excellent hiking and biking. Numerous trails spur off the Harriman Trail leading to deep canyons, sparkling lakes, swimming holes and more great high country fishing.
Facilities
The campground offers several family campsites, most of which have scenic views of the Boulder Mountains to the east. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided, but there is no electricity. Roads and parking spurs are gravel.
Natural Features
A forest of Douglas fir, ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine and aspen offers plentiful shade in the campground. Colorful summer wildflowers are abundant and willows dot the banks of the river. Temperatures are cool with an average summer high of 78 and a low of 40.
Nearby Attractions
Easley Hot Springs is less than 1/4-mile away, just past the campground entrance. A swimming pool, hot tubs and showers are available for a small fee, and a small store is located on-site. The Sawtooth National Recreation Area Visitor Center is 6.5 miles from the campground, with a small museum, bookstore and area information. A dump station and drinking water are located here as well. Sun Valley Resort is 11 miles away, with hiking, biking, guided horseback riding and beautiful mountain scenery. Popular area events include Wagon Days in Ketchum in September, and in Stanley an hour away, an Arts & Crafts Fair in July, and Salmon Festival, Quilt Fair and Fireman's Ball in September.
What the agency tells you
Standard Single Family sites: Recreation Use Fee allows ONE camping unit ONLY. Double sites: refer to Specific Site # for capacity limits.
Opening and closing dates are weather permitting: please call 928-537-8888 for more information.
FIRST COME FIRST SERVE sites must be booked in person. DO NOT call to determine availability, as they are only available on-site.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
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.
Click here for more information on the Sawtooth National Forest
Idaho OHV Safety Message
Extra Vehicles: Cannot be paid for in advance - upon arrival coordinate with the host for payment (half the single family rate) and where to park.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 10
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 70 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…of the Boulder Mountains to the east. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided, but there is no…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “A swimming pool, hot tubs and showers are available for a small fee, and a small store is located on-site.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Mountains to the east. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided, but there is no electricity. Roads…”
- Dump station
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, Lake, River
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 230th darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 7 days ago, 27 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.
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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 rates for this season, $20–$40 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
10 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 10 mapped sitesAll 10 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. 10 of the 10 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| 2VEH | 003 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 113 ft | 95 ft | $20–$40 |
| 2VEH | 008 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 152 ft | 54 ft | $20–$40 |
| EASL | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 203 ft | 199 ft | $20–$40 |
| EASL | 002 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 118 ft | 104 ft | $20–$40 |
| EASL | 004 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 85 ft | 206 ft | $20–$40 |
| EASL | 005 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 85 ft | 208 ft | $20–$40 |
| EASL | 006 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 136 ft | 94 ft | $20–$40 |
| EASL | 007 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 136 ft | 156 ft | $20–$40 |
| EASL | 009 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 152 ft | 204 ft | $20–$40 |
| EASL | 010 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 188 ft | 199 ft | $20–$40 |
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
Wood River Group Overnight Area (Tent Only)Sawtooth National Recreation Area · 3.9 miWood River CampgroundSawtooth National Recreation Area · 4.0 mi
North Fork (ID)Sawtooth National Recreation Area · 5.6 miMurdock CampgroundSawtooth National Recreation Area · 6.0 miCaribou CampgroundSawtooth National Recreation Area · 6.2 miFrom Ketchum, take Highway 75 north for 14.1 miles. Turn onto Forest Road 160 at the sign for Easley Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Ketchum, ID
Typical weather
Typical May night 35°F, day 62°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 35°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
Easley 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 →