Mountain View
1Heads up1 fire 43 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20–$40Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 15All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Mountain View Campground is located just east of Lowman, Idaho, along Highway 21 at an elevation of 3,900 feet. Visitors enjoy rafting, kayaking and fishing on the South Fork Payette River, and soaking in the area's many hot springs pools. Keep reading
Recreation
The South Fork Payette River offers whitewater rafting, kayaking and trout fishing. The Deadwood and Danskin River Access areas are nearby. Popular Kirkham Hot Springs is less than 3 miles from the campground, with several soaking pools on the river's edge.
Facilities
The campground contains several single-family sites, all of which are accessible, each with a picnic table, campfire ring and grill. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. A campground host is on-site. Roads and parking spurs are paved.
Natural Features
Towering Ponderosa pines cover the campground, offering partial shade in most sites. Summer wildflowers dot the landscape. Deer and elk may be seen wandering through the area on occasion. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (208) 259-3361.
Nearby Attractions
Numerous natural hot springs pools can be found along Highway 21, the Ponderosa Pine Scenic Byway and the Banks-Lowman Highway, also known as the Wildlife Canyon Scenic Byway. Both byways offer scenic views, wildlife watching, historical information kiosks and several trail opportunities. Whitewater rafting and kayaking are popular activities on the South Fork and Main Payette Rivers. Several companies in the area offer guided half and full-day trips.
What the agency tells you
This campground is near Lowman, Idaho, not near Stanley, Redfish Lake or the Sawtooth National Recreation Area
Idaho OHV Safety Message
A fee for extra vehicles will be collected at the campground
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Additional single-family sites may be available on a first-come, first-served basis
Please contact the Lowman Ranger District at 208-259-3361 for off-season camping information
Click here for more information on the Boise 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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 15
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 70 ft
- Accessible sites
- 15
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- 13 of 15 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 15 of 15 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER (PEAK SEASON) on 1 of 15 campsite records, DRINKING WATER (HAND PUMP) on 14 of 15 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, River
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 343rd darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 2
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.
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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, $20–$40 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
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 15 mapped sitesAll 15 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 15 of the 15 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. 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.
| MOUN | 001 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 214 ft | 390 ft | 157 ft | $20–$40 |
| MOUN | 002 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 139 ft | 261 ft | 68 ft | $20–$40 |
| MOUN | 003 - Double Site | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | yes | 73 ft | 185 ft | 102 ft | $20–$40 |
| MOUN | 004 - Double Site | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 100 ft | 96 ft | 178 ft | $20–$40 |
| MOUN | 005 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 73 ft | 168 ft | 160 ft | $20–$40 |
| MOUN | 006 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 87 ft | 82 ft | 227 ft | $20–$40 |
| MOUN | 007 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 87 ft | 164 ft | 225 ft | $20–$40 |
| MOUN | 008 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | yes | 83 ft | 74 ft | 290 ft | $20–$40 |
| MOUN | 009 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 92 ft | 173 ft | 292 ft | $20–$40 |
| MOUN | 010 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | yes | 83 ft | 64 ft | 348 ft | $20–$40 |
| MOUN | 011 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | yes | 136 ft | 85 ft | 297 ft | $20–$40 |
| MOUN | 012 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 95 ft | 101 ft | 70 ft | $20–$40 |
| MOUN | 013 - Double Site | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | yes | 72 ft | 72 ft | 158 ft | $20–$40 |
| MOUN | 014 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | yes | 72 ft | 59 ft | 229 ft | $20–$40 |
| MOUN | 015 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | yes | 87 ft | 124 ft | 286 ft | $20–$40 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Park Creek Campground and Group sitesBoise National Forest · 2.9 mi
Park Creek (Idaho)Boise National Forest · 2.9 mi
KirkhamBoise National Forest · 3.0 mi
Pine Flats (ID)Boise National Forest · 4.1 mi
Deadwood Lookout Rec CabinBoise National Forest · 5.4 miFrom Boise, Idaho, take State Highway 55 to Banks. Turn east on the Banks-Lowman Highway to Lowman. Turn left on Highway 21. Campground is at milepost 73.2 along Highway 21.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lowman, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 64°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 19°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Mountain View 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 →