McFarland Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 18All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
McFarland Campground offer 9 campsites for both RVs and tent camping along the Lemhi River. The Lemhi Valley lies between the Beaverhead Mountains and the Lemhi Range, where the river creates a riparian zone in an otherwise arid region. Keep reading
Recreation
McFarland Campground offers many recreation opportunities including public river access for fishing the Lemhi River, and area roads lead into the Beaverhead and Lemhi Ranges. The surrounding area offers a multitude of recreation opportunities including motorized and non-motorized trails, hunting, fishing, and wildlife viewing. The Continental Divide National Scenic Trail can be found along the top of the Beaverhead Mountains to the east of the campground and provides single-day or multi-day hiking opportunities.
Facilities
McFarland Campground offers 9 campsites for both RV and tent camping. Potable water, vault toilets, picnic tables, fire rings, and ample shade are available. The campsites are adjacent to the Lemhi River and the campground provides public access to thriver for fishing.
Natural Features
The Lemhi River creates a lush riparian zone lined with willows that runs through the arid Lemhi Valley. The Beaverhead and Lemhi Mountain Ranges rise above the Lemhi River on both sides of the valley creating a stunning backdrop. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (208) 756-5400.
Nearby Attractions
Lemhi River Beaverhead Mountains Lemhi Mountain Range Continental Divide National Scenic Trail Tarpon's Roost Shelter Charges & Cancellations No changes/cancellations/refunds are allowed as all fees are paid either on-site or through the Recreation.gov Scan & Pay App.
What the agency tells you
The campground has first-come, first-served sites.
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.
No electric, water, or sewer hookups at this campground.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Livestock and firearms prohibited in campground.
Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Moving firewood is illegal in some states. Visit dontmovefirewood.org to learn more.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 18 · 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…both RV and tent camping. Potable water, vault toilets, picnic tables, fire rings, and ample shade are…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…campsites for both RV and tent camping. Potable water, vault toilets, picnic tables, fire rings, and…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Birding
- Fishing
- Hunting
- Picnicking
- Scenic drives
- Stargazing
- Water access
- Wildlife viewing
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:34 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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
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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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 16
What you actually pay
“Campsite nightly rates are $5/site and $2 per additional vehicle.” · the Bureau of Land Management’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $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.
“No changes/cancellations/refunds are allowed as all fees are paid either on-site or through the Recreation.gov Scan & Pay App.” · this campground’s own 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 · 7
recreation.gov availability, read 15:34 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
18 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 9 mapped sitesAll 18 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. 18 of the 18 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Site #1 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 285 ft | $15 |
| Site #1 Extra Vehicle | type not stated | 285 ft | $2 | |
| Site #2 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 167 ft | $15 |
| Site #2 Extra Vehicle | type not stated | 167 ft | $2 | |
| Site #3 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 123 ft | $15 |
| Site #3 Extra Vehicle | type not stated | 123 ft | $2 | |
| Site #4 | standard nonelectric | 71 ft | 142 ft | $15 |
| Site #4 Extra Vehicle | type not stated | 142 ft | $2 | |
| Site #5 | group standard nonelectric | 71 ft | 74 ft | $30 |
| Site #5 Extra Vehicle | type not stated | 74 ft | $2 | |
| Site #6 | standard nonelectric | 110 ft | 173 ft | $15 |
| Site #6 Extra Vehicle | type not stated | 173 ft | $2 | |
| Site #7 | group standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 247 ft | $30 |
| Site #7 Extra Vehicle | type not stated | 247 ft | $2 | |
| Site #8 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 279 ft | $15 |
| Site #8 Extra Vehicle | type not stated | 279 ft | $2 | |
| Site #9 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 373 ft | $15 |
| Site #9 Extra Vehicle | type not stated | 373 ft | $2 |
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
Agency Creek CampgroundSalmon Field Office · 10 miMorse Creek CampgroundChallis National Forest · 16 mi
Horse Prairie Cabin19 mi
Bloody Dick CabinBeaverhead National Forest · 22 mi
Reservoir Lake Campground and Picnic AreaBeaverhead National Forest · 23 mi
Williams Lake CampgroundSalmon Field Office · 25 miTake Highway 28 east from Salmon, ID for 32 miles. The campground will be on the left between the highway and the Lemhi River.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Leadore, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 25°F, day 60°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 6°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
McFarland Campground 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 →