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U.S. Forest Service · Nezperce National Forest · ID

O'Hara Campground

5Heads up5 fires, nearest 12 mi
Wildfire
Cedar Knob fire · 12 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 14, 2026
Wildfire
Cascade fire · 18 mi away · 7,475 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 9, 2026
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Wolf Creek fire · 19 mi away · 2,643 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 9, 2026
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Three Links fire · 20 mi away · 927 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 7, 2026
Wildfire
Grotto fire · 23 mi away · 3,856 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 9, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 14, 2026
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
Get directionsWhat it costs, and the rules
Right now
Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
A night
$14From, per site
Season
May 12 – September 18Open May 12 through September 18
Drawn from the record · 1,560 ft · 58% tree cover · Selway River within reach · Bortle 2 sky
1,560 ftElevation
151 ftWater · Selway River
25.5 miSE of Kamiah, ID
58%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 77th darkest of 523 in ID
Open May 12 through September 18Today

The place

the agency’s own description

In the agency’s own words

O'Hara Campground is the largest campground on the Selway. It provides picnic areas, and toilets, but drinking water systems are currently undergoing maintenance and are unavailable for 2024. RV/Trailer pads and has ease of access for persons with disabilities. It has fishing access and trail access to Stillman Point Trail # 335. Campsites are reservable via recreation.gov.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Phone before you drive

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.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 17, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
A night$14Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$28DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Directions
Every line of the receipt · 6

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night, from$14
Night .$14
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What this campground addsits own record
Extra vehicle$2

“Additional vehicle = $2.00.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record

What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$14
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$28

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($14), 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 · 6
Sign price: Derived by CAMPANAC from the U.S. Forest Service fee record: a stated per-night amount only · Sep 7, 2026
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
What this campground adds: The U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record and notices for this campground, quoted verbatim. An extra-vehicle charge is set locally and appears on no national schedule, so it’s never assumed. · Aug 24, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate
Coordinate46.08508, -115.51491

Where it is

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

This Afternoon69°Mostly Sunny
Tonight40°Partly Cloudy1% rain
Sunday64°Mostly Sunny2% rain
Sunday Night42°Mostly Cloudy

NWS forecast for Elk City, ID

Source: National Weather Service, MSO forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical May night 42°F, day 72°F.

Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 42°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

100°32°20°

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.

Measured at: FENN RS, ID (USC00103143), 1 mile away and at about the same elevation
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
Rackliff - Gedney35,820 acres · 5 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Ohara - Falls Creek25,357 acres · 6 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Lick Point7,895 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026

Who answers for this land

Russ Fulcher, official portrait

O'Hara Campground 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 →

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Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: The agency lists it out of season. The season it publishes is the bar below.
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.012 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 523 rated federal campgrounds in Idaho · Sep 8, 2026
Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Elk City, ID, 16.8 mi N (a census designated place). Straight line.
Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026