Kennally Creek
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 40 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
- 1311 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Kennally Creek Campground is situated in a serene setting among mature forest along the banks of Kennally Creek. 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 ht tps://www.recreation.gov/mobile-app prior to your arrival as some remote areas have limited or no cellular service. Keep reading
Recreation
The North Fork Kennally Creek Trail #102, East Fork Kennally Creek Trail #099, and the Needles Summit Trail #101 depart immediately from the campground with additional trail access just a few miles down the road.
Facilities
Each of 11 sites include a fire ring and picnic table. A stock loading ramp and hitching rails are available at the site. Potable water is typically available June - September.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 13
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 11 of the 13 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.
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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
13 sites · the site map
All 13 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. 13 of the 13 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Kennally Creek | 01 | standard nonelectric | $10–$15 | |
| Kennally Creek | 02 | standard nonelectric | $10–$15 | |
| Kennally Creek | 03 | standard nonelectric | $10–$15 | |
| Kennally Creek | 04 | standard nonelectric | $10–$15 | |
| Kennally Creek | 05 | standard nonelectric | $10–$15 | |
| Kennally Creek | 06 | standard nonelectric | $10–$15 | |
| Kennally Creek | 07 | standard nonelectric | $10–$15 | |
| Kennally Creek | 08 | standard nonelectric | $10–$15 | |
| Kennally Creek | 09 | standard nonelectric | $10–$15 | |
| Kennally Creek | 10 | standard nonelectric | $10–$15 | |
| Kennally Creek | 11 | standard nonelectric | $10–$15 | |
| S&P | Double | type not stated | $10–$15 | |
| Scan and Pay | Standard | type not stated | 68 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
Paddy Flat Guard StationPayette National Forest · 3.4 mi
Poverty FlatPayette National Forest · 9.0 miPenny Springs CampgroundBoise National Forest · 10 mi
Lake ForkPayette National Forest · 10 mi
Four MilePayette National Forest · 11 mi
Camp CreekPayette National Forest · 11 miTravel 10 miles south of McCall on HWY 55 and turn left (east) on Paddy Flat Road. Follow Paddy Flat Road/Forest Road #388 for 19 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Donnelly, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 29°F, day 56°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 14°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
Kennally Creek 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 →