Grouse Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 16 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
- 2321 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Grouse Campground is located just 16 miles from McCall, Idaho, on the shores of Goose Lake. Visitors enjoy canoeing, fishing and horseback riding. 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
Goose Lake is a no-wake lake offering rainbow and brook trout fishing, canoeing and kayaking. Numerous hiking, horseback riding and dirt bike trails are in the vicinity, including Granite Mountain Lookout and Goose Creek Falls.
Facilities
The campground offers several single and double-family sites, all of which are accessible. Most sites have scenic lake views. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided, and a horse-unloading ramp and hitching rail is provided in the campground near the boat ramp. Roads and parking spurs are gravel.
Natural Features
Goose Lake is situated in the beautiful Salmon River Mountain range at an elevation of 6,500 feet. A forest of Engelmann spruce and lodgepole pines provides partial shade in the campground, which is a short, three-minute walk from the shoreline. Summer wildflowers are abundant.
Nearby Attractions
Brundage Mountain Resort, located nearby, offers scenic chairlift rides and excellent lift-served mountain biking and hiking.
What the agency tells you
Please bring garbage bags; this is a 'pack it in, pack it out' facility
Additional first come, first served sites may be available
Free day-use picnic sites available
Everything else this campground posts · 1
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
- 23
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- ACCESSIBLE PIT TOILETS on 23 of 23 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…scenic lake views. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided, and a horse-unloading ramp and…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Visitor center
- Wildlife viewing
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 21 of the 23 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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 · 13
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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
23 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 21 mapped sitesAll 23 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 21 of the 23 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. 23 of the 23 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 79 ft | 473 ftGoose Creek | 215 ft | $10–$15 | |
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 71 ft | 401 ftGoose Creek | 191 ft | $10–$15 | |
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 109 ft | 181 ft | 63 ft | $10–$15 | |
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 109 ft | 289 ft | 167 ft | $10–$15 | |
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 93 ft | 379 ftGoose Creek | 123 ft | $10–$15 | |
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 71 ft | 405 ftGoose Creek | 126 ft | $10–$15 | |
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 93 ft | 429 ft | 99 ft | $10–$15 | |
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 116 ft | 333 ft | 229 ft | $10–$15 | |
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 253 ft | 203 ft | $10–$15 | |
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 95 ft | 183 ft | 186 ft | $10–$15 | |
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 84 ft | 138 ft | 148 ft | $10–$15 | |
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | yes | 84 ft | 168 ft | 99 ft | $10–$15 |
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 324 ft | 68 ft | $10–$15 | |
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 377 ft | 114 ft | $10–$15 | |
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 84 ft | 424 ft | 161 ft | $10–$15 | |
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 93 ft | 409 ft | 217 ft | $10–$15 | |
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 93 ft | 494 ft | 257 ft | $10–$15 | |
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 94 ft | 527 ft | 145 ft | $10–$15 | |
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | 94 ft | 577 ftGoose Creek | 98 ft | $10–$15 | |
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | 110 ft | 565 ftGoose Creek | 141 ft | $10–$15 | |
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | 021 | standard nonelectric | 103 ft | 576 ftGoose Creek | 243 ft | $10–$15 | |
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | Scan and Pay Double | type not stated | Accessible Pit Toilets listed | $10–$15 | |||
| GROUSE CAMPGROUND | Scan and Pay Single | type not stated | Accessible Pit Toilets listed | $10–$15 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Last ChancePayette National Forest · 5.6 mi
Upper Payette Lake CampgroundPayette National Forest · 7.7 miUpper Payette Lake Group CampgroundPayette National Forest · 8.5 mi
Hazard LakePayette National Forest · 9.3 mi
Lake ForkPayette National Forest · 15 miFrom McCall, Idaho, travel north on Highway 55 for 5 miles to Goose Lake Road/Brundage Mountain Resort Road/Forest Road 257. Turn right and travel up the winding two-lane paved road approximately 4 miles, where the roadway turns to a gravel surface. Travel another 6.5 miles to the Grouse Campground turnoff and continue to the campground.
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
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
Grouse 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 →