Huckleberry
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 20 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
- 108 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This is a popular 8 unit campground located along a small creek suitable for fishing. Large Ponderosa Pine and Douglas Fir shade the areas during the day. This location is available on a first-come, first-served basis only. Visitors are required to physically arrive at the campground to purchase and claim a site. 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
Facilities
No hook-ups and no potable water are available. You will need to bring your own water. The typical operating season is mid-May through the end of November.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 10
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed at 6 of 8 sites
Facilities
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…water are available. You will need to bring your own water. The typical operating season is mid-May through…”
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 8 of the 10 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
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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.
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
10 sites · the site map
All 10 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. 10 of the 10 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| Huckleberry | 01 | standard nonelectric | $10–$15 | |
| Huckleberry | 02 | standard nonelectric | $10–$15 | |
| Huckleberry | 03 | standard nonelectric | $10–$15 | |
| Huckleberry | 04 | standard nonelectric | $10–$15 | |
| Huckleberry | 05 | standard nonelectric | $10–$15 | |
| Huckleberry | 06 | standard nonelectric | $10–$15 | |
| Huckleberry | 07 | standard nonelectric | $10–$15 | |
| Huckleberry | 08 | standard nonelectric | $10–$15 | |
| S&P | Double | type not stated | $10–$15 | |
| Scan and Pay | Standard | type not stated | 284 ft | $10–$15 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
LaffertyPayette National Forest · 10 mi
Cold Springs Campground - Payette NF (ID)Payette National Forest · 13 mi
OlloKot CampgroundHells Canyon National Recreation Area · 14 miCoverdale CampgroundHells Canyon National Recreation Area · 15 miFrom Hwy 95 take the Council to Cuprum Road #002 (Hornet Ridge Road) to the junction with the #105 to Bear, follow the #105 to the junction with the #110 road to the campground, which is approximately 30 miles north of Council.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for New Meadows, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 28°F, day 57°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 13°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
Huckleberry 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 →