Ohara
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 11 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $14From, per site
- Sites
- 31All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
O'Hara Campground sits along the Selway River amid lush vegetation and old cedar trees. This is the largest campground on the Selway, with 32 sites, and makes a great base for exploring all the recreational activities and attractions in the area. *Water is currently unavailable at this campground as it is under maintenence for the 2024 season. Water and dump station can be found at Cedar Flats, 1.5 miles from campground on Selway Road. Keep reading
Recreation
The Selway River is a destination fly fishing experience for cutthroat and rainbow trout and is also well-known for whitewater rafting. Several trailheads for hiking and biking can be accessed from Selway River Road and lead into the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness area.
Facilities
The campground offers single-family sites, many of which are accessible. Each site is equipped with a picnic table, campfire ring and paved parking spur. Vault toilets, drinking water and bear-resistant dumpsters are provided.
Natural Features
In the heart of north central Idaho, rugged peaks, deep canyons, dense forests and remote wilderness comprise the Nez Perce National Forest. Due in large part to dramatic elevational differences, the forest supports a wide variety of vegetation, from cedar groves to desert ecosystems. O'Hara is located in the Selway Wild and Scenic River Corridor, an area known for its rugged natural beauty and wildlife.
Nearby Attractions
An 11 mile sightseeing drive from Lowell to Selway Falls offers visitors opportunities to appreciate the pristine beauty of the Selway Wild and Scenic River and picturesque Selway Falls. O'Hara is near the Fenn Ranger Station, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
What the agency tells you
Water is currently unavailable at this campground as it is under maintainence for the 2024 season. Water and dump station can be found 1.5 miles from the campground at Cedar Flats.
Rattlesnakes populate the area
There is no cell phone reception in the campground. The nearest town with reception is Kooskia, ID.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
An additional $2 for each non-towed vehicle will be collected at the campground. Check in time is 2:00pm and check out is 12:00pm
Click here for more information about Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests
Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 31
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 7
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campfire ring and paved parking spur. Vault toilets, drinking water and bear-resistant dumpsters are…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and paved parking spur. Vault toilets, drinking water and bear-resistant dumpsters are provided. Natural…”
- Dump station
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 78th darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 2
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:45 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
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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.
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 · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $14 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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:45 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
32 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 31 mapped sitesAll 32 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 31 of the 32 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| AREA OHARA | 029 | type not stated | 45 ft | 141 ft | $33.97 | ||
| OHAR | 001 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 99 ft | 411 ft | $14 | |
| OHAR | 002 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 23 ft | 437 ft | $14 | |
| OHAR | 003 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 23 ft | 449 ft | $14 | |
| OHAR | 004 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 74 ft | 461 ft | $14 | |
| OHAR | 005 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 74 ft | 534 ft | $14 | |
| OHAR | 006 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 89 ft | 437 ft | $14 | |
| OHAR | 007 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 89 ft | 364 ft | $14 | |
| OHAR | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 65 ft | 398 ft | $14 | |
| OHAR | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 65 ft | 335 ft | $14 | |
| OHAR | 010 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 121 ft | 314 ft | $14 | |
| OHAR | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 93 ft | 128 ft | $14 | |
| OHAR | 012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 45 ft | 152 ft | $14 |
| OHAR | 013 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 45 ft | 190 ft | $14 | |
| OHAR | 014 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 179 ft | 158 ft | $14 | |
| OHAR | 015 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 68 ft | 194 ft | $14 | |
| OHAR | 016 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 53 ft | 210 ft | $14 | |
| OHAR | 017 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 53 ft | 261 ft | $14 |
| OHAR | 018 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 57 ft | 212 ft | $14 | |
| OHAR | 019 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 46 ft | 268 ft | $14 | |
| OHAR | 020 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 46 ft | 267 ft | $14 |
| OHAR | 021 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 99 ft | 184 ft | $14 | |
| OHAR | 022 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 75 ft | 145 ft | $14 | |
| OHAR | 023 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 76 ft | 138 ft | $14 | |
| OHAR | 024 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 75 ft | 220 ft | $14 | |
| OHAR | 025 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 77 ft | 112 ft | $14 |
| OHAR | 026 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 86 ft | 172 ft | $14 | |
| OHAR | 027 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 68 ft | 161 ft | $14 |
| OHAR | 028-HOST | host pad | 45 ft | yes | 68 ft | 150 ft | $14 |
| OHAR | 030 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 93 ft | 131 ft | $14 |
| OHAR | 031 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 93 ft | 128 ft | $14 |
| OHAR | 032 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 95 ft | 125 ft | $14 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 32 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Johnson Bar Group SiteNezperce National Forest · 2.4 miSlide Creek Dispersed SiteNezperce National Forest · 2.9 miThe campground is located 7 miles off U.S. Highway 12 at Lowell, Idaho, on Selway River Road 223.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Elk City, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 38°F, day 61°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 26°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
Ohara 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 →