Evergreen Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 29 mi
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $10–$15Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 1412 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Evergreen Campground is situated next to the Weiser River just off Highway 95 between the towns of Council and New Meadows, Idaho. Fishing and hiking are popular activities. Once on-site, you may be able to pay for your campsite(s) by scanning a QR code using the Recreation.gov mobile app, and the Scan and Pay feature. If this option is available, you will need to first download the free Recreation.gov mobile app https://www.recreation.gov/mobile-app prior to your arrival as some remote areas have limited or no cellular service. Keep reading
Recreation
The Weiser River flows between the campground and the highway, offering excellent rainbow trout fishing, and an occassional crawdad. The Weiser River Trail is popular for hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding, and can be accessed within the site.
Facilities
The campground offers several single and double-family sites, most of which are accessible. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. The road system throughout the campground is gravel, but parking spurs are paved.
Natural Features
Evergeen lives up to its name, as it's settled in a scenic, lush Douglas fir and spruce forest at an approximate elevation of 4,000 feet. Although right off the highway, the large trees and dense bushed provide seclusion and privacy. The Weiser River flows between the campsites and the highway.
What the agency tells you
Idaho Off-road Vehicle Safety Message
No electric, water or sewer site hookups at this campground
Please bring garbage bags; this is a 'pack it in, pack it out' facility
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Additional sites may be available on a first come, first served basis
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
- 14 · 3 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 35 ft
- Paved pads
- 11 of 14
- Accessible sites
- 10
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…sites, most of which are accessible. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. The road system…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…which are accessible. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. The road system throughout the…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Meadow
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 262nd darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 2
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:40 UTC
recreation.gov lists 12 of the 14 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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 · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $10–$15 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:40 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
14 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 12 mapped sitesAll 14 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 12 of the 14 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 14 of the 14 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| EVERGREEN CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 95 ft | 172 ft | 252 ft | $10–$15 |
| EVERGREEN CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 76 ft | 110 ft | 158 ft | $10–$15 |
| EVERGREEN CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 192 ft | 74 ft | 194 ft | $10–$15 |
| EVERGREEN CAMPGROUND | 004 | tent only nonelectric | 60 ft | 106 ft | 97 ft | $10 | ||
| EVERGREEN CAMPGROUND | 005 | tent only nonelectric | 60 ft | 144 ft | 116 ft | $10 | ||
| EVERGREEN CAMPGROUND | 006 | tent only nonelectric | 12 ft | 96 ft | 29 ft | under 10 ft | $10 | |
| EVERGREEN CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 137 ft | 101 ft | 149 ft | $10–$15 |
| EVERGREEN CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 80 ft | 78 ft | 192 ft | $10–$15 |
| EVERGREEN CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 80 ft | 112 ft | 113 ft | $10–$15 | |
| EVERGREEN CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 120 ft | 37 ft | 114 ft | $10–$15 |
| EVERGREEN CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 111 ft | 124 ftWeiser River | under 10 ft | $10–$15 |
| EVERGREEN CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 120 ft | 82 ftWeiser River | 231 ft | $10–$15 |
| EVERGREEN CAMPGROUND | Scan and Pay Double | type not stated | 35 ft | yes | $10–$15 | |||
| EVERGREEN CAMPGROUND | Scan and Pay Single | type not stated | 35 ft | yes | $10–$15 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Cold Springs Campground - Payette NF (ID)Payette National Forest · 4.7 mi
Last ChancePayette National Forest · 12 mi
LaffertyPayette National Forest · 14 mi
Grouse CampgroundPayette National Forest · 16 mi
HuckleberryPayette National Forest · 17 mi
Cabin CreekPayette National Forest · 17 miFrom Council, Idaho, follow Highway 95 north approximately 14 miles to the campground.
From New Meadows, travel 12 miles southwest on Highway 95.
The campgound is on the east side of the highway.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for New Meadows, ID
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Evergreen 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 →