Point Campground
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- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $26From, per site
- Sites
- 16All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Point Campground is located next to beautiful Redfish Lake at the foot of the Sawtooth Mountain Range at an elevation of 6,500 feet. Keep reading
Recreation
Point Campground is in the heart of the beautiful Sawtooth National Recreation Area, where outdoor activities abound. Redfish Lake offers excellent boating, water skiing, canoeing, kayaking and fishing for rainbow trout and Kokanee salmon. Little Redfish Lake is just down the road, offering additional fishing and canoeing. A designated swimming beach and dock are located at the adjacent public day-use area. Sandy Beach Boat Ramp is across the lake, about a mile away.
Facilities
This small campground offers eight walk-to tent sites and eight sites for tents, trucks with campers and vans only; no motor homes or trailers allowed. Most sites have lake views. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. Roads and parking spurs are paved. A dump station is nearby.
Natural Features
Summer wildflowers are plentiful, lodgepole pines provide partial shade and Fishhook Creek is nearby. Temperatures are cool, with an average summer high of 78 degrees and a low of 40 degrees.
Nearby Attractions
The Sawtooth National Recreation Area offers a myriad of excellent hiking and biking opportunities, and an estimated 750 miles of trails crisscross the valley and surrounding mountains. In the immediate area are trailheads for the Alpine Way, Fishhook Creek, Redfish Lake Creek and Bench Lakes Trails. The Idaho Centennial Trail passes nearby. Redfish Lake Lodge is nearby with a restaurant, general store, boat and kayak rentals, mooring services, lake tours and a lake shuttle. Popular area events include an Arts and Crafts Fair in July, and Wagon Days, Salmon Festival, Quilt Fair and Fireman's Ball in September.
What the agency tells you
Standard Single Family sites: Recreation Use Fee allows ONE camping unit ONLY.
Extra Vehicles: Your camp fee includes the first vehicle only in a single site. All other vehicles will be charged 50% of the posted camp fee at the time of check-in and cannot be paid for in advance. Coordinate with the host for payment and where to park.
Late Arrivals: campers are not considered a "no-show" until 24 hours after arrival date check in time. Our policy is that your site will not be released before that.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
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.
Idaho Off-Road Vehicle Safety Message
Click here for more info about the Sawtooth National Forest
• Traffic delays of up to 10 minutes while traveling into the campground • Work hours of 8am to 8pm Monday – Thursday, and 8am to 5pm on Friday (Noise Issues) • Construction commotion during working hours
Opening and closing dates are weather permitting, please call 928-537-8888 for more information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 16 · 8 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 28 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…allowed. Most sites have lake views. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. Roads and parking…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…sites have lake views. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. Roads and parking spurs are paved. A…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Store
- Nearby
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 167th 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
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $26 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
16 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 16 mapped sitesAll 16 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 16 of the 16 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. 16 of the 16 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| POIN | 001 | walk to | 20 ft | 159 ft | 561 ft | 325 ft | $26 |
| POIN | 002 | walk to | 20 ft | 159 ft | 475 ft | 407 ft | $26 |
| POIN | 003 | walk to | 20 ft | 185 ft | 299 ft | 425 ft | $26 |
| POIN | 004 | walk to | 20 ft | 74 ft | 264 ft | 199 ft | $26 |
| POIN | 005 | walk to | 20 ft | 86 ft | 347 ft | 200 ft | $26 |
| POIN | 006 | walk to | 20 ft | 73 ft | 329 ft | 131 ft | $26 |
| POIN | 007 | walk to | 20 ft | 73 ft | 398 ft | 84 ft | $26 |
| POIN | 008 | walk to | 20 ft | 76 ft | 442 ft | 151 ft | $26 |
| POIN | 010 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 118 ft | 248 ft | 279 ft | $26 |
| POIN | 011 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 136 ft | 132 ft | 289 ft | $26 |
| POIN | 012 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 114 ft | 113 ft | 387 ft | $26 |
| POIN | 013 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 114 ft | 195 ft | 396 ft | $26 |
| POIN | 014 | standard nonelectric | 14 ft | 115 ft | 115 ft | 540 ft | $26 |
| POIN | 015 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 63 ft | 214 ft | 528 ft | $26 |
| POIN | 016 | standard nonelectric | 19 ft | 34 ft | 128 ft | 609 ft | $26 |
| POIN | 017 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 34 ft | 157 ft | 591 ft | $26 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Redfish CabinSawtooth National Recreation Area · 0.8 miMount Heyburn CampgroundSawtooth National Recreation Area · 0.9 mi
Outlet CampgroundSawtooth National Recreation Area · 1.1 miRedfish Lake Recreation ComplexSawtooth National Recreation Area · 1.1 mi
Glacier View CampgroundSawtooth National Recreation Area · 1.3 miTake State Highway 75 south from Stanley, Idaho, for 6 miles. Go west on Forest Road 214 for approximately 1.7 miles. Turn right onto Forest Route 213, drive a short distance and turn at Point Campground entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Stanley, ID
Typical weather
Typical May night 30°F, day 60°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 30°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 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
Point 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 →