Redfish Inlet Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 30 mi
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Redfish Lake Inlet is accessible either through water access: shuttle boat, kayak, canoe or hiking in. The campground consists of 4 sites and is first-come, first-serve. This site has trash removal and toilets but no potable water. It is located at the very southern end of Redfish lake by the Redfish Inlet trailhead. Enjoy hiking Redfish trail along Mt. Heyburn, Braxon Peak, Grand Mogul and Decker Peak near the Bench lakes and Saddle back lakes in the beautiful Sawtooth Wilderness area. Enjoy hiking, swimming, fishing and kayaking from this unique location.
Facilities
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…site has trash removal and toilets but no potable water. It is located at the very southern end of Redfish…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. 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 · 4
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Point CampgroundSawtooth National Recreation Area · 2.7 miSockeye CampgroundSawtooth National Recreation Area · 2.8 miMount Heyburn CampgroundSawtooth National Recreation Area · 3.1 mi
Redfish CabinSawtooth National Recreation Area · 3.5 mi
Outlet CampgroundSawtooth National Recreation Area · 3.5 miThe 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
Redfish Inlet 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 →