Mill Creek Trailhead & Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $5From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Mill Creek Campground and Trailhead consists six camp sites available in a wooded setting along scenic Mill Creek. There is one accessible vault toilet, hitching rail, and unloading ramp. No Water is available. Nearby areas of interest include Mill Creek Lake National Recreation Trail, Mill Creek Lake and Firebox Meadows.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Mill Creek. There is one accessible vault toilet, hitching rail, and unloading ramp. No Water is…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…hitching rail, and unloading ramp. No Water is available. Nearby areas of interest include Mill…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek, Meadow
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $5 with nothing added. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 5
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($5), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Meadow Lake CampgroundSalmon National Forest · 5.2 miBig Creek CampgroundChallis National Forest · 13 mi
Loristica Group CampgroundChallis National Forest · 24 miLoristica Group CampgroundChallis National Forest · 25 mi
Birch Creek CampgroundUpper Snake Field Office · 28 miThe 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 28°F, day 57°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 7°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
Mill Creek Trailhead & 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 →