Macks Creek Campground
1Heads up1 fire 49 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20–$40Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 14All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Macks Creek Campground is a very popular small campground just 25 miles from the Boise area along Arrowrock road off Highway 21 operated and managed by the US Army Corps of Engineers. The campground is reservation only May-September and closed to vehicle traffic the remainder of the year. Visitors make the trip to enjoy quality seasonal recreational activities like boating, swimming, camping, fishing, and hunting. Regular seasonal drawdowns occur each year which impact the recreational activities available at Lucky Peak Lake. Verizon LTE is now available at the Camp Host site to make online reservations. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating, camping, fishing, swimming, water sports, hiking, biking, picnicking, and much more! The lake offers family-friendly outdoor recreation opportunities for both travelers and residents of the urban Boise area. Macks Creek Park offers scenic views and convenient access to lake recreation. Anglers fish for rainbow trout, Kokanee and smallmouth bass. A boat ramp is located within the campground.
Facilities
This primitive, small park offers a handful of campsites on the shore of Lucky Peak Lake. Clean vault restrooms, hand-pumped drinking water, and an emergency telephone are provided. Verizon cellular is available at the Host Site. During the reservation season, a volunteer Camp Host lives on-site and can provide information and assistance to park users. The Park Host does have scheduled days off and may not always be available during your stay. Parking availability is limited. Two businesses within 10 miles offer limited basic food and services.
Natural Features
Lucky Peak Lake is located in the foothills of southwestern Idaho on the Boise River at an elevation of 3,055 feet. When full, the lake stretches 12 miles up-river, with 45 miles of shoreline and over 3,000 surface acres of water. The campground tent sites are situated among shady trees along the lakeshore. The trailer spots are situated on the opposite side of the road from the tent sites with a wide open clear view of the lake and surrounding mountains. The surrounding mountains are consistent with sagebrush steppe, dotted with sagebrush and bitterbrush. A variety of wildlife lives around Lucky Peak, including bald and golden eagles, mule deer, antelope, red-tailed hawks, California quail and chukar.
Nearby Attractions
Arrowrock Reservoir, operated by the Bureau of Reclamation, is nearby, as is the beautiful Boise National Forest. These areas provide additional camping, boating, fishing, hiking and sightseeing opportunities. Recreation at Arrowrock Reservoir is managed by the U.S. Forest Service. Check with the Boise National Forest office for rules, regulations, and temporary closures before visiting. Cervidae Peak hiking trail. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (208) 343-0671 for general information.
Charges & Cancellations
The rules listed above for Changes and Cancellations apply to Recreation.gov If you have a special need for assistance with your change or cancellation, please contact the facility directly. Full refunds for changes and cancellations may be made at the facility's discretion. Macks Creek Campground Cancellations & Changes: Cancellations : Call the Lake Office or Camp Host to notify a staff member of any change or cancellation. You may cancel the day of prior to the start of your reservation at 12:00pm and still request a full refund. If you do not call to cancel or change, No Show Fees will apply. Changes : Call the Lake Office or Camp Host to notify a staff member of any change in your reservation. You may change 24 hours ahead of the start of your reservation and still request a refund if a staff member is available to assist you with changes. If you do not call to cancel or change, No Show Fees will apply. Lake Office : 208.343.0671 (Mon-Fri 8AM-4PM) Campground Host : 208.344.4195 (May 15-Sept 15 Only)
What the agency tells you
Advance reservations are required for all sites.
Check-out time is 11:00 am and check-in time begins at Noon. Upon checkout, reservation holders are expected to depart Macks Creek Campground. Lingering Day Use activities and late departures from the campground are not permitted.
CHECK IN: Upon arrival, campers should check in with the camp host. If the host is unavailable, please keep your electronic reservation confirmation handy for verification by Park Rangers on patrol. All visitors may be asked to show ID and/or proof of reservation upon check-in. Site reservations cannot be transferred upon arrival.
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LATE ARRIVAL. Please phone the Lake Office at (208) 343-0671 to notify park staff of your late arrival. You may also leave a message for the Camp Host and Park Rangers at (208) 344-4195, who will check this voicemail before releasing No-Show sites. Failure to appear at a reserved campsite in the first 24 hours will result in the release of that site with additional charges applying.
CHECK OUT: Checkout time is 11 AM. Upon checkout, reservation holders are expected to depart Macks Creek Campground. Lingering Day Use activities and late departures from the campground are not permitted. If you have reserved the campsite with the intention to leave in the evening do not intend to return for the remainder of your reservation, please notify the host, park staff, or Lake Office so we may open up the campsite upon your departure for future use.
Parking is extremely limited. To ensure all reserved campers are accomodated, please see individual site notes for the maximum number of people allowed in each site. If your group is larger, reserve additional sites. Sites 1-5 park within their site or nearby unassigned areas. Site 6 has three assigned parking stalls. Sites 7, 8, 11 and 12 have two assigned parking stalls each, Group Site 9 has four parking stalls, and Sites 13-15 have one parking stall each (but are located near a large unassigned shoulder parking area).
Docks are shared and not assigned to sites.
Unreserved Day Use is NOT permitted May-Sept. The campground is reservation only May-September and closed to vehicle traffic the remainder of the year. Due to the limited amount of space available and parking, unreserved day use is not allowed. The rest of the lake is open to day use and nearby attractions are- Arrowrock Dam, 5-mile, Naked Rock, and Spring Shores Marina.
Macks Creek Campground is a high demand area. If you do not intend to use your reservation, ensure cancellation is prompt so we may open up the sites to people who wish to use the site. No-show fees will apply after 24 hours.
Verizon LTE is available at the Camp Host site. The nearest other cellular services are Verizon and T-Mobile (three miles away at Mile Marker 1 of Arrowrock Road near Spring Shores Marina). An emergency phone pedestal is also located near the Camp Host site to report emergencies and make free local calls by speakerphone.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 14 · 9 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…on the shore of Lucky Peak Lake. Clean vault restrooms, hand-pumped drinking water, and an emergency…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Lake. Clean vault restrooms, hand-pumped drinking water, and an emergency telephone are provided. Verizon…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Night sky · 521st darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 4
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.
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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.
“The rules listed above for Changes and Cancellations apply to Recreation.gov If you have a special need for assistance with your change or cancellation, please contact the facility directly. Full refunds for changes and cancellations may be made at the facility's discretion. Macks Creek Campground Cancellations & Ch…” · this campground’s own no-show terms
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 · 6
rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
14 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 14 mapped sitesAll 14 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. 14 of the 14 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| RV Area | 001 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 86 ft | 240 ft | $20 | |
| RV Area | 002 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 86 ft | 282 ft | $20 | |
| RV Area | 003 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 101 ft | 213 ft | $20 | |
| RV Area | 004 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 117 ft | 263 ft | $20 | |
| RV Area | 005 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 117 ft | 209 ft | $20 | |
| Tent Area | 006 | tent only nonelectric | 96 ft | 65 ft | $20–$40 | ||
| Tent Area | 007 | tent only nonelectric | 63 ft | 37 ft | $20–$40 | ||
| Tent Area | 008 | tent only nonelectric | 63 ft | 39 ft | $20–$40 | ||
| Tent Area | 009 | tent only nonelectric | 70 ft | 32 ft | $20–$40 | ||
| Tent Area | 011 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 55 ft | 104 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Tent Area | 012 | tent only nonelectric | 55 ft | 86 ft | $20–$40 | ||
| Tent Area | 013 | tent only nonelectric | 76 ft | 87 ft | $20–$40 | ||
| Tent Area | 014 | tent only nonelectric | 76 ft | 52 ft | $20–$40 | ||
| Tent Area | 015 | tent only nonelectric | 85 ft | 54 ft | $20–$40 |
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
Shafer ButteBoise National Forest · 14 miFrom Gowen Road (Exit 57) off I-84, head east toward South Federal Way. Continue to follow Highway 21 for 12.5 miles. Turn right on Arrowrock Road immediately after the High Bridge crossing over the lake. Continue on Arrowrock Road passed Spring Shores Marina at Mile 1 for a total of 4.5 miles to Macks Creek Park.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Robie Creek, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 42°F, day 65°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 25°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
Macks Creek 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 →