U.S. Forest Service · Boise National Forest · ID

Evans Creek Campground

1Heads up1 fire 29 mi away
Wildfire
East Fork fire · 29 mi away · 1 acres · updated Oct 17, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.

This is how it should work.

Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
Drawn from the record · 4,210 ft · 0% tree cover · Anderson Ranch Reservoir within reach · Bortle 2 sky
4,210 ftElevation
57 ftWater · Anderson Ranch Reservoir
21.3 miNE of Mountain Home, ID
n/aTree cover · water-masked cell
Bortle 2Night sky · 386th darkest of 523 in ID

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

The Evans Creek Campground has several campsites along Anderson Ranch Reservoir. There are 18 campgrounds along the Reservoir and this area is the gateway to the Trinity Recreation Area. Recreation: The reservoir is a popular destination for fishing, boating, waterskiing and riding personal watercraft. It is stocked with smallmouth bass and kokanee. Also, you might try your luck at fly fishing for trout just below the dam. The communities of Pine and Feathereville are only a few miles away with restaurants, groceries and fuel.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Reservoir, Creek
Source: Stated in the agency description

Nothing to book, just show up

One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.

recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.

BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 3

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight35°Partly Cloudy
Saturday73°Mostly Sunny
Saturday Night36°Partly Cloudy
Sunday71°Sunny

NWS forecast for Mountain Home, 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.

90°32°0°

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.

Measured at: HILL CITY 1 W, ID (USC00104268), 18 miles away and 890 ft higher

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

Roadless
House Mtn.25,608 acres · 5 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Cathedral Rocks8,203 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 5, 2026

Who answers for this land

Mike Simpson, official portrait

Evans Creek 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.