Glade Creek Campground
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- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $50From, per site
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Glade Creek Campground is a group site, only available by reservation. The campground is located along US Highway 12 in the Clearwater National Forest about seven miles east of Lowell, Idaho. Located in the mountains of north central Idaho, the forested site offers campers river access and beautiful scenery. The site is suitable for groups up to 35 people and is perfect for families and groups who want easy access to the Lochsa River. Fees are $50 per night. A combination code is needed to gain entry to the site and will be provided in the confirmation email. Check out is 12:00 pm. Keep reading
Check in is 2:00pm Recreation Popular activities include fishing and swimming. For the whitewater thrill-seekers, the Wild and Scenic Lochsa River holds exciting floating and kayaking opportunities. There are three hiking/biking trails within two miles of the campground; #142, #111 and #107. These trails are also open to motorcycles from approximately June through September.
Facilities
Glade Creek has four campsites and encompasses about one acre. Two of the sites are located adjacent to the river. There is a group fire ring with benches adjacent to the river. All four sites have accessible fire rings, ten foot picnic tables, level tent pads and graveled parking areas. Site 2 has an extra table and several tent sites. The spurs are short and not suitable for RVs greater than 24 feet. The campground has one unisex vault toilet, but does not offer water, sewer or power hookups. Please follow the "Pack it in, Pack it out" philosophy to keep this beautiful location clean, as garbage service is not provided at this location.
Natural Features
The campground is situated between US Highway 12 and the Lochsa River. The campground is on a large bend in the river, which makes the beach completely hidden from the highway. With shade from the surrounding stand of mixed-age conifers and low-growing shrubs, It is a cool reprieve during the summer.
What the agency tells you
Maximum occupancy is 35 people and 15 passenger vehicles.
There is no water system at this site. Campers may obtain water at Apgar campground, one mile west on Highway 12.
There is no dumpster, garbage cans or garbage service at this site. Pack it in, Pack it out. There is a dumpster at Apgar campground, one mile west on Highway 12.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
A maximum capacity of 15 passenger vehicles is allowed. This site can accommodate up to four travel trailers less than 24 feet long. Each travel trailer will reduce available parking. Plan accordingly. All vehicles and trailers must remain on hardened surfaces within the campsite parking spur.
Guest must perform general site clean-up and trash removal prior to departure as well as close and lock the gates. Check out time is 12:00pm and check in is 2:00pm
Maximum length of the reservation is 13 nights/14 days.
Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org
Click here for more information on the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 24 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…24 feet. The campground has one unisex vault toilet, but does not offer water, sewer or power hookups.…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Night sky · 91st darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 2
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.
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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 lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($50), 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
1 sites · the site map
All 1 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. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| GLADE CREEK CAMPGROUND | Glade Creek Group Site | group standard area nonelectric | 24 ft | yes | 243 ftLochsa River | $50 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Walde Lookout CabinClearwater National Forest · 5.3 miWild Goose CampgroundClearwater National Forest · 7.4 mi
Johnson Bar Group SiteNezperce National Forest · 8.2 miCCC CampgroundNezperce National Forest · 8.9 miGlade Creek Campground is located at about milepost 105 on US Highway 12. It is approximately 31 miles east of Kooskia and about seven miles east of Lowell, Idaho.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Kooskia, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 40°F, day 61°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 29°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
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Glade 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 →