U.S. Forest Service · Nezperce National Forest · ID
Fish Creek Group Use Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 38 mi
Wildfire
Cedar Knob fire · 38 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 14, 2026
Wildfire
Sheep fire · 38 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 17, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 17, 2026
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
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
5,430 ftElevation
2,743 ftWater · East Fork Goose Creek
5 miS of Grangeville, ID
70%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 341st darkest of 523 in ID
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This is the primitive Fish Creek Dispersed Group Use Site, located 1 mile south of the Fish Creek Campground. It may be reserved for up to 75 people. This site has also been called "Eagle's Nest", "Girl Scout Camp," and "Fish Creek Dispersed Site." There is no electricity, water, or sewer hookups at this group use site. There are primitive toilets on site.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 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 here
Fish Creek Group UseNezperce National Forest · 1.4 miCastle Creek CampgroundNezperce National Forest · 6.8 mi
South Fork Group Site 5 - Nez Perce NF (ID)Nezperce National Forest · 6.8 miSouth Fork CampgroundNezperce National Forest · 7.6 miMeadow Creek Campground9.0 mi
Adams Ranger StationNezperce National Forest · 13 mi
Fish Creek Group UseNezperce National Forest · 1.4 miCastle Creek CampgroundNezperce National Forest · 6.8 miSouth Fork Group Site 5 - Nez Perce NF (ID)Nezperce National Forest · 6.8 miSouth Fork CampgroundNezperce National Forest · 7.6 miMeadow Creek Campground9.0 miAdams Ranger StationNezperce National Forest · 13 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Tonight47°Partly Cloudy
Saturday61°Mostly Sunny
Saturday Night38°Partly Cloudy
Sunday52°Sunny
NWS forecast for Grangeville, ID
Source: National Weather Service, MSO forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Fish Creek Group Use 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 →
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.
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.