Green Bay Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 33 mi
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 17All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Surrounded by clear waters of Lake Pend Oreille which is Idaho’s biggest and deepest (at 1,158 feet deep, there are only four deeper lakes in the nation), and at 43 miles long (111 miles of shoreline), the newly renovated campground has 17 sites and provides the ideal getaway for people looking for a remote, but highly rewarding, camping experience on the peaceful shores of the Lake. These sites are reached by boat or long walks from the parking lot. Keep reading
Recreation
Visitors can enjoy all types of boating from kayaking to canoeing to power boating. Fantastic birding and wildlife viewing is available from the campsite or a short drive to Mineral Point Trailhead. Swimming is a popular summer pastime and with beach access at the campground, visitors won't have any problem cooling off during warmer months.
Facilities
Green Bay Campground can only by trail from parking lot or by boat. No drinking water is available and this is a pack it in, pack it out facility. Picnic tables, tent pads, and campfire rings are provided.
Natural Features
Dug out by Ice Age glaciers and located amid three major frontal ranges of the northern Rocky Mountains, it has natural splendor to go with a fascinating human and natural history. The lake has a very active and visible population of ospreys that can be seen diving into the lake to catch fish. Bald eagles are common, and wildlife from moose and deer and bear to spawning kokanee salmon can be spotted around the lake. Seasonally, migrating waterfowl including swans, geese and ducks are common in many areas of the lake. Lake Pend Oreille is also known for its kamloops (a species of giant rainbow trout), mackinaw and kokanee salmon.
Nearby Attractions
The Mineral Point Trail can be accessed from the campground or from a nearby trailhead. Garfield Bay can be accessed from a short drive from the campground parking area. Numerous sites can be accessed by boat from the campground.
What the agency tells you
Site is accessed by walk-in or boat only
No drinking water; please bring your own water
There is no parking for RV's, Motorhomes, or trailers.
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Bring garbage bags; this is a 'pack in-pack out' facility
No bathing or washing dishes in lake
No glass bottles allowed on beaches
No fireworks
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Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 17 · 17 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…by trail from parking lot or by boat. No drinking water is available and this is a pack it in, pack it out…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach, Coast
- Birding
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Motor Boat
- Water access
- Fall color · reported 4 days ago, 17 km away
- No change
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.
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 · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
17 sites
All 17 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. 17 of the 17 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Sam OwenKaniksu National Forest · 6.4 miMaiden Rock CampgroundKaniksu National Forest · 7.2 miWhiskey Rock Bay CampgroundKaniksu National Forest · 9.0 mi
Springy Point9.1 mi
Lunch Peak LookoutKaniksu National Forest · 17 mi
Riley Creek17 miFrom Garfield Bay, take the first road to the left past the Forest Service picnic area. Follow this road for about 3/4 mile. Turn right onto Forest Service Road 532. Take Road 532 about 1 mile to Green Bay Road 2672. Road 2672 is not suitable for motorhomes or trailers. Follow Road 2672 to the parking area for the campground. The campground is also accessible by boat on Pend Oreille Lake.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Hope, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 34°F, day 56°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 23°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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
Green Bay 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 →