Mike Harris
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $17From, per site
- Sites
- 12All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Mike Harris Campground is located along scenic Teton Pass, just 5 miles from Victor, Idaho at an elevation of 6,200 feet. Visitors enjoy fishing, exploring local trails and sightseeing in this beautiful region. Keep reading
Recreation
Hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding are popular activities on the Mikesell Canyon Trail, which begins at the site. Trail Creek offers fishing for Yellowstone cutthroat and brook trout.
Facilities
The campground contains single-family sites with picnic tables, campfire rings and food storage lockers. Accessible vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Roads and parking spurs are gravel.
Natural Features
The campground is situated near Trail Creek among a forest of Douglas fir and lodgepole pine. A variety of wildlife makes its home in the area, including moose and deer. Summer wildflowers are abundant. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 351-1182.
Nearby Attractions
Popular activities in the area include the Teton Valley Summer Festival over the Fourth of July in Driggs, with a hot air balloon festival, parade, rodeo, bike races and craft booths. Grand Targhee Resort is nearby with outstanding annual music festivals: Targhee Fest is in mid-July; Targhee Bluegrass Festival is in mid-August. The resort also offers lift-served hiking and mountain biking, scenic lift rides, guided horseback riding, a climbing wall and an 18-hole disc golf course. Grand Teton National Park's Granite Entrance is 22 miles away; Jackson, Wyoming is 19 miles away. Yellowstone National Park is within a couple hours drive.
What the agency tells you
Wildlife Caution
Idaho OHV Safety Message
A $8 fee extra vehicles will be collected at the campground per day
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Please bring reservation confirmation to the campground
No ATVs allowed in the campground
This campground has first come, first served sites
Click here for more information on the Caribou-Targhee National Forest
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.
Check-in Time is 2:00pm and Check-out time is 12:00pm
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 12
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and food storage lockers. Accessible vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…lockers. Accessible vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Roads and…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 435th darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 14 days ago, 29 km away
- Peak color
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.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
“A $8 fee extra vehicles will be collected at the campground per day” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $17 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
12 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 12 mapped sitesAll 12 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. 12 of the 12 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| MIKE HARRIS | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 604 ft | 204 ft | $17 |
| MIKE HARRIS | 002 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 193 ft | 518 ft | $17 |
| MIKE HARRIS | 003 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 309 ft | 47 ft | $17 |
| MIKE HARRIS | 004 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 193 ft | 392 ft | $17 |
| MIKE HARRIS | 005 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 354 ft | 235 ft | $17 |
| MIKE HARRIS | 006 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 309 ft | 347 ft | $17 |
| MIKE HARRIS | 007 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 486 ft | 693 ft | $17 |
| MIKE HARRIS | 008 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 406 ft | 1,249 ft | $17 |
| MIKE HARRIS | 009 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 406 ft | 1,014 ftTrail Creek | $17 |
| MIKE HARRIS | 010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 468 ft | 803 ftTrail Creek | $17 |
| MIKE HARRIS | 011 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 220 ft | 524 ftTrail Creek | $17 |
| MIKE HARRIS | 012 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 220 ft | 397 ftTrail Creek | $17 |
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
Trail CreekTarghee National Forest · 1.9 mi
Pine Creek CampgroundTarghee National Forest · 6.9 mi
Palisades Creek CampgroundTarghee National Forest · 13 mi
Reunion FlatTarghee National Forest · 15 mi
Teton CanyonTarghee National Forest · 16 mi
BIG ELKTarghee National Forest · 16 miLocated 5 miles southeast of Victor, ID on Wyoming Route 22, 2 miles north of Trail Creek Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Victor, ID
Typical weather
Typical May night 36°F, day 60°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 36°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Mike Harris 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 →