Morgan Bar Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 16All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Morgan Bar Campground offers RV-friendly and tent campsites with group facilities and a boat ramp. The site is adjacent to the Salmon River with a magnificent eastern view of the Beaverhead Mountains. The site was formally homesteaded by the Morgan family and still has a remnant orchard. A trail winds around a wetland pond and along almost a mile of the Salmon River's west bank. Keep reading
Recreation
Morgan Bar Campground offers many recreation opportunities including river access for rating, fishing, tubing, and swimming. The wetland pond and riverfront trail to the south of the campground provide excellent birding opportunities. The surrounding area offers a multitude of recreation opportunities including motorized and non-motorized trails, hunting, fishing, and wildlife viewing.
Facilities
Morgan Bar Campground offers 8 campsites for both RV and tent camping. Potable water, vault toilets, picnic tables, fire rings, group picnic site, and ample shade are available at all sites. Campground offers horseshoe pits, bean-bag boards, and a grass volleyball court. Campground host onsite from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
Natural Features
The campground is adjacent to the Salmon River with a magnificent eastern view of the Beaverhead Mountains. A trail winds around a wetland pond and along almost a mile of the Salmon River's west bank providing ample opportunities for birding and wildlife viewing. The rock cliffs to the west of the campground are popular nesting sites for Canada goose. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (208) 756-5400.
Nearby Attractions
Salmon River Tower Rock Campground Lemhi County Fairgrounds 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
- 16
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…both RV and tent camping. Potable water, vault toilets, picnic tables, fire rings, group picnic site, and…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…campsites for both RV and tent camping. Potable water, vault toilets, picnic tables, fire rings, group…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Birding
- Fishing
- Picnicking
- Rafting
- Stargazing
- Swimming
- Tubing
- Water access
- Whitewater rafting
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 · 14
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
16 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 8 mapped sitesAll 16 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 16 of the 16 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 16 of the 16 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 | 78 ft | 282 ft | 406 ft | $15 |
| Site #1 Extra Vehicle | type not stated | 282 ft | 406 ft | $2 | |
| Site #2 | standard nonelectric | 91 ft | 347 ft | 386 ft | $15 |
| Site #2 Extra Vehicle | type not stated | 347 ft | 386 ft | $2 | |
| Site #3 | standard nonelectric | 78 ft | 209 ft | 409 ft | $15 |
| Site #3 Extra Vehicle | type not stated | 209 ft | 409 ft | $2 | |
| Site #4 | standard nonelectric | 158 ft | 80 ft | 626 ft | $15 |
| Site #4 Extra Vehicle | type not stated | 80 ft | 626 ft | $2 | |
| Site #5 | standard nonelectric | 134 ft | 96 ft | 468 ft | $15 |
| Site #5 Extra Vehicle | type not stated | 96 ft | 468 ft | $2 | |
| Site #6 | standard nonelectric | 107 ft | 121 ft | 337 ft | $15 |
| Site #6 Extra Vehicle | type not stated | 121 ft | 337 ft | $2 | |
| Site #7 | standard nonelectric | 131 ft | 88 ft | 214 ft | $15 |
| Site #7 Extra Vehicle | type not stated | 88 ft | 214 ft | $2 | |
| Site #8 | standard nonelectric | 161 ft | 107 ft | 89 ft | $15 |
| Site #8 Extra Vehicle | type not stated | 107 ft | 89 ft | $2 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Tower Rock CampgroundSalmon Field Office · 4.1 miWallace Lake CampgroundSalmon National Forest · 4.9 mi
Shoup Bridge CampgroundSalmon Field Office · 11 miCougar Point CampgroundSalmon National Forest · 14 mi
Twin Lakes Cabin (MT)Beaverhead National Forest · 15 mi
Williams Lake CampgroundSalmon Field Office · 16 miTake Highway 93 North from Salmon, ID for 3.5 miles. Turn left at the Lemhi County Fairgrounds and follow the signs for about 1 mile down the Diamond Creek Road. The site is on the right between the Diamond Creek Road and the Salmon River.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Salmon, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 11°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
Morgan Bar 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 →