Edna Creek Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20–$40Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 11All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Edna Campground is located 56 miles northeast of Boise, Idaho, in a scenic Ponderosa Pine forest along Highway 21 at an elevation of 5,700 feet. Historic Idaho City is just 18 miles south. This campground contains 11 sites. Picnic tables, utility tables, and fire rings are provided, along with two vault toilets and a water pump. The site is in an open area with shade. Parking spurs are graveled. Due to its proximity to the highway, some noise from passing traffic is to be expected. Highway 21, also known as the Ponderosa Pine Scenic Byway, snakes along Mores Creek to Mores Creek Summit, Gold Fork, and Banner Ridge with breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains and forest. Numerous trail opportunities are in the area, offering hiking, biking, horseback riding, and ATVing. In winter, the area becomes a playground for backcountry skiers and snowmobilers. Keep reading
Recreation
There are numerous opportunities to go hiking, biking, horseback riding and ride off-road vehicles within a short car ride away. In the winter the area is a playgound for winter sports including cross-country skiing and snowmobiling.
Facilities
Single sites have one picnic table, one fire ring, one utility table, and one tent pad. Double sites have two picnic tables, one tent pad, one fire ring, and two utility tables. There are two vault toilets and one hand water pump on-site. No trash service: pack-in, pack-out.
Natural Features
There is a small creek that runs adjacent to the campground and Crooked River runs near the site, offering whitefish and rainbow trout fishing. The campground is in the burn scar from the 2016 Pioneer Fire, so the surrounding landscape has many burned and downed trees. Wildlife and summer wildflowers are abundant. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (208) 373-4100.
What the agency tells you
- Water from hand pump is tested monthly for contaminants and will be abruptly shut off if not currently potable. Please plan accordingly with your own water supply in case of a shut off during your stay. - Pets must be on a leash at all times -Campfires are allowed in fire rings ONLY, unless fire restrictions are in place. Contact Idaho City Ranger District for updates regarding fire restrictions. - Quiet hours are from 10pm-6am -No trash service: Pack-in-Pack-out -Reservations cancelled last minute due to weather or smoke conditions will not be refunded unless campground is closed to the public - Generators only permitted from 6am-10pm. - Closest cell service is in Idaho City (approx. 17 miles) or Mores Creek Summit (approx. 5 miles) - For questions regarding the campground, please contact the Idaho City Ranger District at 208-392-3700. - For questions regarding reservations and refunds, please contact Recreation.gov customer service.
Edna Creek Campground is located in an old burn scar from the 2016 Pioneer Fire. Please be cautious of burned hazard trees in the area.
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
- 11
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 52 ft
- Accessible sites
- 11
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- ACCESSIBLE VAULT TOILETS on 11 of 11 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER (HAND PUMP) on 11 of 11 campsite records
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 458th darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 3
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 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
11 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 11 mapped sitesAll 11 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. 11 of the 11 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Edna Creek Campground | 010 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | yes | 66 ft | 190 ftWhoop Um Up Creek | $20–$40 |
| Edna Creek Campground | 011 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 81 ft | 197 ftEdna Creek | $20–$40 |
| EDNA CREEK CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 155 ft | 32 ftWhoop Um Up Creek | $20–$40 |
| EDNA CREEK CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 75 ft | 186 ftWhoop Um Up Creek | $20–$40 |
| EDNA CREEK CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 59 ft | 115 ftWhoop Um Up Creek | $20–$40 |
| EDNA CREEK CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 59 ft | 72 ftWhoop Um Up Creek | $20–$40 |
| EDNA CREEK CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | yes | 61 ft | 28 ftWhoop Um Up Creek | $20–$40 |
| EDNA CREEK CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | yes | 39 ft | 47 ftWhoop Um Up Creek | $20–$40 |
| EDNA CREEK CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | yes | 39 ft | 33 ftWhoop Um Up Creek | $20–$40 |
| EDNA CREEK CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | yes | 63 ft | 152 ftWhoop Um Up Creek | $20–$40 |
| EDNA CREEK CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | yes | 63 ft | 203 ftWhoop Um Up Creek | $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
Bad Bear CampgroundBoise National Forest · 0.0 mi
Hayfork Group CGBoise National Forest · 0.0 mi
Ten Mile CampgroundBoise National Forest · 1.1 miEdna Creek CampgroundBoise National Forest · 5.2 mi
Beaver Creek Cabin (ID)Boise National Forest · 5.8 miWillow Creek Campground (Idaho City)Boise National Forest · 8.9 miFrom Idaho City, drive north on Hwy 21 for about 18.5 miles. Edna Creekk Campground will be on the right, at the start of the FS-384 road. It’s at milepost 56.8.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Idaho City, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 15°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
Edna Creek Campground 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 →