Mt. Borah Trailhead and Camping Area
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
This area serves as a base camp for climbing the tallest mountain in Idaho. It has 5 campsites, accessible vault toilet, No drinking water, safety and informational signs. Nearby areas of interest include Earthquake site and Mackay Reservoir.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…in Idaho. It has 5 campsites, accessible vault toilet, No drinking water, safety and informational signs.…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…5 campsites, accessible vault toilet, No drinking water, safety and informational signs. Nearby areas of…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir
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
Joe T. Fallini Recreation SiteChallis Field Office · 14 miUpper Lake Creek CampgroundChallis Field Office · 15 mi
Garden Creek CampgroundChallis Field Office · 16 mi
Herd Lake CampgroundChallis Field Office · 17 miLoristica Group CampgroundChallis National Forest · 19 mi
Loristica Group CampgroundChallis National Forest · 20 miThe weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Mackay, ID
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
Mt. Borah Trailhead and Camping Area 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 →