Magee Rangers Cabin
1Heads up1 fire 46 mi away
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:32 UTC
- Sites
- 1In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Magee Ranger's Cabin is a fully furnished 2-story cabin in the center of the Coeur d'Alene River Ranger District. Guests can imagine themselves as forest rangers when sleeping in the old ranger's quarters, and enjoying the superb views and convenient access to prime recreation trails. The Magee Cabin was constructed in 1922 as living quarters for the Magee District Ranger. The cabin along with several buildings at the site are on the National Register of Historic Places. These buildings may occasionally be occupied as temporary housing for Forest Service employees working in the vicinity. Keep reading
Recreation
Nearby trails include the Independence Creek Trail System, with 34 miles of trails suitable for hiking, motorcycle riding, horseback riding and mountain biking. Teepee Creek is a tributary of Idaho's South Fork Salmon River and is open to fly fishing with popular catches including cutthroat trout and brook trout.
Facilities
The log cabin has a front porch and is located near a public picnic area. It sleeps six guests, with a full-size bed downstairs and four single beds upstairs. Amenities include drinking water, propane stove, refrigerator and heater. Two portable propane lanterns are available, but guests should bring their own propane. Items to bring include propane for lanterns, bedding, flashlights, food, a first aid kit, matches, insect repellent, towels, dish soap, dish towels and washcloths. Visitors should also bring a splitting maul, axe or bow saw for collecting firewood, plus charcoal and lighter fluid to start campfires. There is an UNHEATED shower and toilet available in the warehouse that is approximately 200 ft. from the rental. A detailed walking map is available in the cabin.
Natural Features
Magee sits at an elevation of 3,000 feet along the Teepee Creek in the heart of the Coeur d'Alene Mountains.
Nearby Attractions
The nearest telephone is about 25 miles away and the nearest grocery store is about 32 miles away in Prichard, ID.
What the agency tells you
A combination code is needed to access the cabin and may be obtained by confirmation email or by calling the facility ahead of your reservation.
The cabin is accessible by automobile on paved roads and good quality graveled roads. The cabin is remote with the nearest public phone 25 miles away at the Shoshone rest stop. Groceries and a small restaurant are located at Prichard about 32 miles away.
Length of stay is limited to 5 consecutive days per year.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
There is no electricity available at the cabin. Two propane lanterns are provided for light, you provide the proper size propane canisters. Bring flashlights and fluorescent lanterns if you desire.
Be bear aware; keep all food out of sight in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from area after eating.
Maximum length of stay per family is five days each season.
Click here for more information on the Idaho Panhandle National Forests
Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Toilet and Shower Facilities available 200 feet away from cabin. Detailed walking map available in cabin
Please note that dogs are not allowed in any of our cabins, lookouts or historic recreation areas that are available for reservation.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 cabin
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…single beds upstairs. Amenities include drinking water, propane stove, refrigerator and heater. Two…”
- Firewood
- Mentioned
- Stay limit
- 5 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 467th darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 3
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:32 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 11
What you actually pay
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 · 4
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Magee Rangers Cabin closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 2
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Gold Rush CampgroundLolo National Forest · 49 mi · walk-up
- Mammoth Springs CampgroundSt. Joe National Forest · 59 mi
recreation.gov availability, read 16:32 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 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. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| AREA MAGEE RANGERS CABIN | 001 | cabin nonelectric | 60 ft | 226 ft | $100 |
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
Spyglass Ground HouseCoeur d'Alene National Forest · 2.6 mi
Big HankCoeur d'Alene National Forest · 7.3 mi
Devil's Elbow CampgroundCoeur d'Alene National Forest · 11 mi
Little Guard LookoutCoeur d'Alene National Forest · 12 mi
Berlin FlatsCoeur d'Alene National Forest · 12 mi
Devils ElbowCoeur d'Alene National Forest · 12 miAccess #1: From I-90, take Exit #43 (Kingston) and drive 24 miles north on Forest Highway 9 (two lane paved highway) to the Prichard Junction. Continue on Forest Road 208 for 28 miles to the end of the pavement and the start of Forest Road 6310 (a gravel road with rocks and potholes). Travel 7 miles on road 6310 to the Magee Ranger's Cabin. The approximate travel time from Coeur d'Alene on this route is 2 hours.
Access #2: From the Ranger Station in Coeur d'Alene, drive east on County Road #268 (Fernan Lakeshore road) for 5 miles; this road enters the Cd'Alene National Forest and climbs up into the mountains on Forest Road #268. Forest Road #268 is a paved two lane road that you will follow for 7 miles to Fernan Saddle. Continue on paved road which is Forest Road #612 (paved then graveled good quality two lane) and follow it 11 miles to Forest Road #209 past Honeysuckle Campground. Cross bridge and turn right (south) on Road #209 for 5 miles to its junction with Forest Road #422. Turn left (north) and travel 14 miles on Road #422 toward Magee. Road 422 is a fair quality graveled road that is mostly two lanes but in places narrows to 1-1/2 lanes with turnouts; use caution and go slow. The road is suitable for automobiles. Turn right at Forest Road #6310, Magee Cabin will be on your left. Travel time from Coeur d'Alene is around 1-3/4 hours.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Heron, MT
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 54°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 22°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
Magee Rangers Cabin 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 →