Pine Flats (ID)
1Heads up1 fire 45 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20–$40Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 26All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Pine Flats Campground is located a few miles west of Lowman, Idaho, along the Banks-Lowman Highway at an elevation of 3,700 feet. Visitors enjoy rafting, kayaking and fishing on the South Fork Payette River, and soaking in the hot springs at the river's edge. Keep reading
Recreation
The South Fork Payette River flows next to the site, down a small hill, and offers trout fishing, rafting and kayaking. The Danskin River Access area is 5 miles west of the campground. A 1/4-mile nature trail begins in the campground and leads to a natural hot springs soaking pool on the riverside.
Facilities
The campground contains several single and double-family sites, most of which are accessible, each with a picnic table and campfire ring with grill. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Roads and parking spurs are paved, as are some campsite pads.
Natural Features
Towering Ponderosa pines cover the campground, offering partial shade in most sites. Summer wildflowers dot the landscape. Deer and elk may be seen wandering through the campground on occasion.
Nearby Attractions
Numerous natural hot springs pools can be found along the Banks-Lowman Highway, also known as the Wildlife Canyon Scenic Byway. The area offers scenic views, wildlife watching, historical information kiosks and several trail opportunities. Whitewater rafting and kayaking are popular activities on the South Fork and Main Payette Rivers. Several companies in the area offer guided half and full-day trips.
What the agency tells you
Idaho OHV Safety Message
Additional single-family sites may be available on a first-come, first-served basis
Please contact the Lowman Ranger District at 208-259-3361 for off-season camping information
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Click here for more information on the Boise 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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 26
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 130 ft
- Paved pads
- 24 of 26
- Accessible sites
- 21
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…table and campfire ring with grill. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…campfire ring with grill. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Roads and…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs, River
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Hunting
- Visitor center
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 367th 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 · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$40 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
26 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 25 mapped sitesAll 26 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 25 of the 26 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 26 of the 26 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| HOST | 009 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | yes | $20–$40 | |||
| PINE | 001 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 115 ft | 369 ft | 461 ft | $20–$40 |
| PINE | 002 | standard nonelectric | 89 ft | yes | 115 ft | 400 ft | 352 ft | $20–$40 |
| PINE | 003 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | yes | 65 ft | 383 ft | 163 ft | $20–$40 |
| PINE | 004 - Double Site | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | 65 ft | 344 ft | 107 ft | $20–$40 | |
| PINE | 005 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | 131 ft | 227 ft | 125 ft | $20–$40 | |
| PINE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | 107 ft | 206 ft | 170 ft | $20–$40 | |
| PINE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | 105 ft | 226 ft | 174 ft | $20–$40 | |
| PINE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | 65 ft | 279 ft | 173 ft | $20–$40 | |
| PINE | 010 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | yes | 60 ft | 267 ft | 229 ft | $20–$40 |
| PINE | 011 | standard nonelectric | 115 ft | yes | 60 ft | 321 ft | 223 ft | $20–$40 |
| PINE | 012 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | yes | 93 ft | 294 ft | 265 ft | $20–$40 |
| PINE | 013 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | yes | 51 ft | 227 ft | 168 ft | $20–$40 |
| PINE | 014 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | yes | 51 ft | 278 ft | 157 ft | $20–$40 |
| PINE | 015 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | yes | 76 ft | 235 ft | 85 ft | $20–$40 |
| PINE | 016 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | yes | 76 ft | 234 ft | 81 ft | $20–$40 |
| PINE | 016A | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | yes | 67 ft | 275 ft | 115 ft | $20–$40 |
| PINE | 017 | standard nonelectric | 78 ft | yes | 67 ft | 336 ft | 146 ft | $20–$40 |
| PINE | 018 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | yes | 74 ft | 408 ft | 168 ft | $20–$40 |
| PINE | 019 - Double Site | standard nonelectric | 130 ft | yes | 74 ft | 390 ft | 108 ft | $20–$40 |
| PINE | 020 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | yes | 77 ft | 423 ft | 116 ft | $20–$40 |
| PINE | 021 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | yes | 77 ft | 467 ft | 166 ft | $20–$40 |
| PINE | 022 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | yes | 67 ft | 483 ft | 279 ft | $20–$40 |
| PINE | 023 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | yes | 67 ft | 542 ft | 304 ft | $20–$40 |
| PINE | 024 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | yes | 78 ft | 490 ft | 217 ft | $20–$40 |
| PINE | 025 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | yes | 78 ft | 566 ft | 268 ft | $20–$40 |
25 of 26 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Deadwood Lookout Rec CabinBoise National Forest · 3.3 mi
Mountain ViewBoise National Forest · 4.1 mi
Park Creek (Idaho)Boise National Forest · 6.2 mi
Park Creek Campground and Group sitesBoise National Forest · 6.2 mi
KirkhamBoise National Forest · 7.0 miFrom Boise, Idaho, take Highway 55 to Banks. Turn east and travel on the Banks-Lowman Highway for 28 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lowman, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 64°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 19°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
Pine Flats (ID) 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 →