Rackliff Campground
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 12 mi
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $8From, per site
- Season
- May 12 – September 30Open May 12 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Rackliff Campground has 6 campsites on the Selway River and provides picnic areas and a toilet. It has fishing access, a footbridge across Rackliff Creek and trail access to Rackliff Ridge Trail # 702.
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $8 with nothing added. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 6
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($8), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
OharaNezperce National Forest · 1.1 miO'Hara CampgroundNezperce National Forest · 1.1 miCCC CampgroundNezperce National Forest · 1.4 miSlide Creek Dispersed SiteNezperce National Forest · 1.9 miBoyd Creek CampgroundNezperce National Forest · 2.4 miThe 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 May night 42°F, day 72°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 42°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
Rackliff 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 →