Paris Springs Campground
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- A night
- $17–$32Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 12All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 1Opens May 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Paris Springs Campground is situated in scenic Paris Canyon, about five miles from Paris, Idaho. It is about 20 miles from Bear Lake, at an elevation of 6,600 feet. The campground gives Bear Lake visitors the opportunity to camp in a quiet area with lush vegetation. Keep reading
Recreation
Paris Creek runs alongside the campground, after bubbling up from Paris Spring, which can be accessed from a 300-yard trail within the site. Campers enjoy hiking and fishing along the creek.
Facilities
The campground contains three group sites and nine single-family campsites. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided, but there is no electricity. Roads and parking spurs within the campground are dirt.
Natural Features
A mixed conifer and aspen forest covers the campground and much of Paris Canyon. Plentiful shade can be found throughout most of the campground. Summer wildflowers dot the landscape.
Nearby Attractions
The Highline Trail, part of the National Trail System, can be accessed nearby. It is the premier trail of the Montpelier Ranger District, stretching 55 miles along the backbone of the Bear River Range. The trail is enjoyed by hikers, horseback riders, mountain bikers, motorcyclists and off-road vehicle enthusiasts from around the world. Paris Ice Cave is also not far from the campground. Self-guided tours of the cave offer a look into an unusual cavern filled with ice year-round. The cave is not developed but a footpath leads through it. Beautiful Bear Lake State Park is about 20 miles away, with boating, water skiing, fishing and swimming. Bear Lake's Raspberry Days festival occurs annually the first weekend in August, with a parade, fireworks, craft booths and a rodeo.
What the agency tells you
Wildlife Caution
Idaho OHV Safety Message
Trailer sites are not suitable for trailers over 20 feet in length
Everything else this campground posts · 4
An additional $10 fee will be collected at the campground for extra vehicles
Click here for more information on the Caribou-Targhee 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.
Check-in Time is 2:00pm and Check-out time is 12:00pm
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 12 · 3 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…sites and nine single-family campsites. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided, but there is no…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…campsites. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided, but there is no electricity. Roads…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Climbing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 431st darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 3
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.
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 · 15
What you actually pay
“An additional $10 fee will be collected at the campground for extra vehicles” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $17–$32 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
12 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 12 mapped sitesAll 12 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 12 of the 12 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| PARIS SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 001 | group standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 117 ft | 126 ft | $87–$100 |
| PARIS SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 002 | group standard nonelectric | 149 ft | 217 ft | $87–$100 | |
| PARIS SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 120 ft | 179 ft | $17–$32 |
| PARIS SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 64 ft | 80 ft | $17–$32 |
| PARIS SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 64 ft | 54 ft | $17–$32 |
| PARIS SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 92 ft | 73 ft | $17–$32 |
| PARIS SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 102 ft | 86 ft | $17–$32 |
| PARIS SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 115 ft | 110 ft | $17–$32 |
| PARIS SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 91 ft | 70 ft | $17–$32 |
| PARIS SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 91 ft | 67 ft | $17–$32 |
| PARIS SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 117 ft | 11 ft | $17–$32 |
| PARIS SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 012 | group standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 267 ft | 172 ft | $87–$100 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Davis Canyon CampgroundCache National Forest · 6.9 mi
St. Charles CampgroundCache National Forest · 6.9 mi
Porcupine (ID)Cache National Forest · 7.9 mi
NORTH FORK CAMPGROUND - St. CHARLES CANYONCache National Forest · 7.9 mi
Cloverleaf CampgroundCache National Forest · 8.0 mi
Willow Flat CampgroundCache National Forest · 8.2 miFrom Paris, Idaho, and U.S. Highway 89, turn west onto County Road 421 at the sign for Paris Canyon. Continue west approximately 4 miles and take the left fork of the Y onto County Road 427. Continue one mile, to campground at the end of the road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Paris, ID
Typical weather
Typical May night 34°F, day 64°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 34°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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.
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
Paris Springs 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 →