Joe T. Fallini Recreation Site
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:27 UTC
- A night
- $20–$40Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 24All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Joseph T. Fallini Campground, situated on the banks of the Mackay Reservoir, is the only recreational site in Challis Field Office that offers full RV hookups and features a diversity of other facilities. This scenic area has a gorgeous view of the Lost River Range and offers recreational opportunities such as boating in the summer and ice fishing in late winter. Mackay Reservoir offers a boat ramp providing access to the reservoir for jet skiing, water skiing and sailing . Other boat launches along the reservoir (and one downstream of the dam) are also available. Keep reading
Recreation
Vistiors can engage in a variety of recreation opportunities including (ice) fishing, camping, picnicking, wildlife viewing, nature walking, boating, and star-gazing.
Facilities
There are 26 camp sites, an RV hook ups and dump station, restrooms, drinking water, boat ramp and interpretive trail.
Natural Features
This site resides on the banks on Mackay Reservoir surrounded by the Lost River Range to the east and Knob Mountains to the west. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (208) 879-6200.
Nearby Attractions
Mackay Mine Hill Historical Self-Guided Tour Borah Peak Wilderness Study Area Borah Peak Trailhead Big Lost River Chilly Slough Wildlife Conservation Area Lost River Museum Craters of the Moon National Monument Lower Cedar Creek Waterfall
What the agency tells you
Joe T. Fallini Recreation Site is dedicated to Jospeh T. Fallini who grew up in Mackay, ID and served as the BLM Idaho State Director from 1959-1970. During his time with BLM Idaho, Joseph Fallini was a strong advocate for outdoor recreation on public lands.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 24 · 4 tent-only
- Hookups
- 20 electric, 5 water
- Paved pads
- 2 of 24
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…RV hook ups and dump station, restrooms, drinking water, boat ramp and interpretive trail. Natural Features…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Reservoir, River, Creek
- Boating
- Fishing
- Ice Fishing
- Non-Motorized Boating
- Water access
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
1 of 1 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:27 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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 · 18
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$40 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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:27 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
28 records
All 28 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 24 of the 28 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Chukar Loop | Double RV Site 17 | rv electric | $20–$40 | ||
| Chukar Loop | Double RV Site 19 | rv electric | $20–$40 | ||
| Chukar Loop | Double RV Site 21 | rv electric | $20–$40 | ||
| Chukar Loop | Double RV Site 22 | rv electric | $20–$40 | ||
| Chukar Loop | Group Shelter | day use | yes | $50 | |
| Chukar Loop | Host Site 15 | host pad | 30 amp | $20–$40 | |
| Chukar Loop | RV Site 16 | rv electric | 15/20 amp | $20–$40 | |
| Chukar Loop | RV Site 18 | rv electric | $20–$40 | ||
| Chukar Loop | RV Site 20 | rv electric | $20–$40 | ||
| Dump Loop | Dump Station | day use | $50 | ||
| Gourse Loop | Tent Site 2 | tent only nonelectric | $20 | ||
| Grouse Loop | Host Site 1 | host pad | 15/20 amp | yes | $20–$40 |
| Grouse Loop | RV Site 10 | rv electric | $20–$40 | ||
| Grouse Loop | RV Site 11 | rv electric | $20–$40 | ||
| Grouse Loop | RV Site 12 | rv electric | $20–$40 | ||
| Grouse Loop | RV Site 13 | rv electric | $20–$40 | ||
| Grouse Loop | RV Site 14 | rv electric | $20–$40 | ||
| Grouse Loop | RV Site 2 | rv electric | 15/20 amp | yes | $20–$40 |
| Grouse Loop | RV Site 3 | rv electric | $20–$40 | ||
| Grouse Loop | RV Site 4 | rv electric | $20–$40 | ||
| Grouse Loop | RV Site 5 | rv electric | $20–$40 | ||
| Grouse Loop | RV Site 6 | rv electric | 15/20 amp | $20–$40 | |
| Grouse Loop | RV Site 7 | rv electric | $20–$40 | ||
| Grouse Loop | RV Site 8 | rv electric | $20–$40 | ||
| Grouse Loop | RV Site 9 | rv electric | $20–$40 | ||
| Grouse Loop | Tent Site 1 | tent only nonelectric | $20 | ||
| Grouse Loop | Tent Site 3 | tent only nonelectric | yes | $20 | |
| Grouse Loop | Tent Site 4 | tent only nonelectric | $20 |
The agency files 4 more records here that aren’t sites for the night: 2 it files as day use and 2 it names a host pad. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 28 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Loristica Group CampgroundChallis National Forest · 11 mi
Copper Basin Guard StationChallis National Forest · 13 miMt. Borah Trailhead and Camping AreaChallis National Forest · 14 miLake Creek Trailhead & CampgroundChallis National Forest · 17 mi
Garden Creek CampgroundChallis Field Office · 19 miNorth of Mackay, Idaho and south of Challis, Idaho. Travel north from Mackay on Highway 93 for approximately 6 miles. The site is on the west side of the highway and has a view of the spectacular Mt. McCaleb in the Lost River Range
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Mackay, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 8°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
Joe T. Fallini Recreation Site is in Idaho’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Mike Simpson (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →