Peace Valley Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Peace Valley Campground sits just 27 miles north of Garden Valley, Idaho, at an elevation of 4591 feet. The beautiful Peace Valley offers excellent hiking, motorcycle riding, fishing, and hunting opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Peace Valley offers several trails for hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, and OHV use. Peace Creek Trail and Bitter Creek Trail (both motorcycle trails) begin nearby. The Rattlesnake Trail and 465 ATV Trail are in the vicinity of the campground. Peace Creek and nearby Silver Creek offer excellent fishing most of the year. Anglers cast for whitefish and rainbow trout. In-season big game hunting for deer, elk, and bear is a popular activity in the surrounding mountains.
Facilities
This fully-accessible campground is a small facility with just five campsites that make up one group site that can accommodate up to 50 people. Picnic tables, grills, a small picnic shelter, and campfire rings are provided. Parking spurs can accommodate small to medium RVs up to 30 feet in length. Vault toilets and drinking water are available.
Natural Features
The surrounding area consists of high, forested mountains, and steep valleys. The campground lies close to an experimental forest and a fire lookout. A variety of wildlife makes its home in and around Peace Valley, including deer, elk, bald eagles, and red-tailed hawks.
Nearby Attractions
Silver Creek Plunge, a privately-developed hot springs resort, is 2.5 miles away with a hot springs pool, general store, concessions, a playground, horseshoe pits, and both volleyball and basketball courts.
What the agency tells you
Idaho Off-road Vehicle Safety Message
Peace Valley Campground is formerly known as Silver Creek Campground
Site is reservable as a group unit only
Everything else this campground posts · 5
This is a 'pack it in, pack it out' facility; campers must remove all trash upon departure
Click here for more information on the Boise National Forest
Please click here for further information about the facility and recreation opportunities in the area.
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
- 1 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…to medium RVs up to 30 feet in length. Vault toilets and drinking water are available. Natural Features…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…to 30 feet in length. Vault toilets and drinking water are available. Natural Features The surrounding…”
- Playground
- Yes
- Store
- Nearby
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, Creek
- Biking
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Night sky · 282nd 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.
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
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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 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. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| PEACE VALLEY CAMPGROUND | GS1 | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 557 ft | $120 |
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
Silver Creek CampgroundBoise National Forest · 1.9 mi
Boiling Springs CabinBoise National Forest · 3.7 mi
River Side (ID - Boise)Boise National Forest · 5.9 mi
Riverside Campground (Lowman)Boise National Forest · 6.3 mi
Barneys Campground (Boise National Forest, ID)Boise National Forest · 6.7 mi
Barney's CampgroundBoise National Forest · 6.9 miFrom Garden Valley, Idaho, take Forest Road 698 north approximately 16 miles north. Turn right at the junction of FR 698 and FR 671. Take FR 671 for about 10 miles to the campground, which is on the left-hand side 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 Smiths Ferry, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 15°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
Peace Valley 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 →