Mann Creek Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10–$15Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 1513 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Mann Creek Campground is located near the Mann Creek Reservoir in the foothills of the West Central Mountains in western Idaho near the Payette National Forest. The reservoir is a popular boating and fishing destination. 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
Recreation
The reservoir offers 283 surface-acres of water and five miles of shoreline, although the water level fluctuates seasonally. Visitors enjoy boating, canoeing, swimming and trout fishing.
Facilities
The campground offers 13 sites, two of which are accessible and six sites are available for advanced reservations. Picnic tables, some of which are covered, and fire rings are provided, as are vault toilets and drinking water. Drinking water is often not available in late summer and fall; please call ahead to confirm availability. Roads and most parking spurs are gravel. The campground loop and two accessible sites are paved.
Natural Features
Mann Creek Reservoir lies in the rolling and arid foothills of the Hitt Mountains. At an elevation of 3,300 feet, the area is hot and dry in the summer months. Large shade trees help block some of the intense sun, but shade is limited. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (208) 549-4200.
What the agency tells you
Idaho Off-road Vehicle Safety Message
No electric, water or sewer hookups at this campground
Click here for more about the Payette National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pests in our national forests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Biting and stinging insects are common here as with any camping area near water; please come prepared with insect repellant and appropriate clothing/shelter
Water is often not available in late summer and fall please call the Weiser Ranger Station (208) 549-4200 ahead of time to confirm the status of drinking water
Area around reservoir, including the campground, is a no shooting zone
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 15
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 55 ft
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and fire rings are provided, as are vault toilets and drinking water. Drinking water is often not…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…are provided, as are vault toilets and drinking water. Drinking water is often not available in late…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Creek, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 397th darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 3
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:32 UTC
recreation.gov lists 13 of the 15 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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.
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 · 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:32 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
15 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 13 mapped sitesAll 15 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. 15 of the 15 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| MACC | 01 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 44 ft | 366 ft | $10–$15 | |
| MACC | 02 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 42 ft | 303 ft | $10–$15 | |
| MACC | 03 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 44 ft | 334 ft | $10–$15 | |
| MACC | 04 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 42 ft | 272 ft | $10–$15 | |
| MACC | 05 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | yes | 68 ft | 288 ft | $10–$15 |
| MACC | 06 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 160 ft | 139 ft | $10–$15 | |
| MACC | 07 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 64 ft | 169 ft | $10–$15 | |
| MACC | 08 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 64 ft | 106 ft | $10–$15 | |
| MACC | 09 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | yes | 158 ft | 101 ft | $10–$15 |
| MACC | 10 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 80 ft | 257 ft | $10–$15 | |
| MACC | 11 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 72 ft | 330 ft | $10–$15 | |
| MACC | 12 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 72 ft | 396 ft | $10–$15 | |
| MACC | 13 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 61 ft | 421 ft | $10–$15 | |
| MACC | Scan and Pay Double | type not stated | 55 ft | $10–$15 | |||
| MACC | Scan and Pay Single | type not stated | 55 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
Where it is
Spring Creek CampgroundPayette National Forest · 11 miOasisVale Malheur Field Office · 15 mi
Spring Recreation SiteVale Baker Field Office · 16 mi
BrownleePayette National Forest · 23 miFrom Weiser, Idaho, take Highway 95 north for 12 miles, then take the Mann Creek Road north approximately 2.5 miles to Mann Creek Reservoir and the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Midvale, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 38°F, day 65°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 23°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Mann 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 →