U.S. Forest Service · Sawtooth National Forest · ID
Father and Sons Campground
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading
- Season
- June 1Opens June 1. No closing date published.
7,290 ftElevation
468 ftWater · Big Cottonwood Creek
25.7 miSE of Hansen, ID
55%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 383rd darkest of 523 in ID
Opens June 1. No closing date published.Today
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
CLOSED DUE TO FIRE DAMAGE Father and Sons Campground and Picnic Area is a developed campground located near Cottonwood Ridge. The campground is composed of 12 individual units and 1 group units that can accommodate a total of 100 people. The campground is suitable for trailer and tent camping. This area is accessible for a season that varies usually between June and September. Campground amenities include toilets. The area is attractive for exploration on an ATV or a mountain bike. Fishing opportunities can be found nearby at Big Cottonwood Creek.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Yes, the record doesn't say what kind
- “Campground amenities include toilets.”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
Source: Stated in the agency description
Phone before you drive
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.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
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
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
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
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near hereBostetter CampgroundSawtooth National Forest · 0.8 mi
Porcupine SpringsSawtooth National Forest · 3.9 miDiamondfield Jack CampgroundSawtooth National Forest · 4.7 miPettit CampgroundSawtooth National Forest · 5.1 mi
Lower PenstemonSawtooth National Forest · 5.5 miUpper Penstemon CampgroundSawtooth National Forest · 5.6 mi
Porcupine SpringsSawtooth National Forest · 3.9 miDiamondfield Jack CampgroundSawtooth National Forest · 4.7 miPettit CampgroundSawtooth National Forest · 5.1 miLower PenstemonSawtooth National Forest · 5.5 miUpper Penstemon CampgroundSawtooth National Forest · 5.6 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Overnight38°Partly Cloudy
Saturday58°Sunny
Saturday Night39°Mostly Clear
Sunday57°Mostly Sunny
NWS forecast for Oakley, ID
Source: National Weather Service, PIH forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026
Who answers for this land
Father and Sons 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: Today falls inside the season the agency publishes, and it has posted nothing else. That reading is ours.
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
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.
Nearest place of any size: Oakley, ID, 15.3 mi WSW. Straight line.