Reeder Bay
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 11 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $30–$32Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 24All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Reeder Bay Campground is a picturesque hideaway for nature immersion and relaxing water sports on Priest Lake. Campsites are shaded by a dense forest of cedar, fir and hemlock. Campers visit Reeder for its incredible beach that slopes down into the refreshing, clear lake. Keep reading
Recreation
Wake boarding, jet skiing, bird watching and canoeing are among the many activities campers enjoy. Hike the 8-mile Lakeshore Trail which passes through alder, pine, young cedar and open hillsides of brush, providing memorable scenic views throughout the journey. Anglers seek Dolly Varden and cutthroat trout, as well as kokanee salmon, on the lake and nearby Priest River.
Facilities
Reeder Bay boasts accessible facilities and paved roads and parking spurs. Amenities include a pressurized water system with hydrants, flush toilets and overflow gravel parking areas.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the eastern shore of Priest Lake, nestled deep below the crest of the Selkirk Mountains. The lake spans 19 miles in length and reaches a depth of 300 feet. Priest Lake is noteworthy for its incredibly clear waters, fed by streams cascading from the high Selkirk peaks. A variety of wildlife inhabits the surrounding area, including deer, elk, moose, grizzly and black bears, wolves and mountain lions.
Nearby Attractions
Explore the extensive trail system around the lake. The Upper Priest Lake Trail takes hikers and mountain bikers to the Upper Priest Lake Scenic Area, which can also be accessed by boat.
What the agency tells you
Extra Vehicles: One vehicle is included in your single campsite fee. Each additional vehicle will be charged a per day fee that is collected on site (cash or check only) if space is available in your site only. Additional parking may not be available.
The 14 day stay limit is strictly enforced. Camping for a period longer than 14 days during any 30-consecutive day period is prohibited. If you have booked back-to-back reservations, you will be asked to cancel all days after the first 14.
Be bear aware; keep all food out of sight in approved containers or locked inside your vehicle and remove all food from the area after eating
Everything else this campground posts · 7
No electric hookups at this facility
No First Come First Served sites available. All sites are reservable and are shown online.
Maximum boat length is 20 feet
Click here to learn more about the Idaho Panhandle National Forest
Check out the forest's campground description for specific information to Fish Your National Forest
Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
SCRS & Recreation.gov policy states we will keep your reserved site until check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. If you haven't occupied it at any time during this period, your reservation is null and void and we will give it to first come first serve folks. Your reservation will be a no show and no refund will be given.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 24
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 55 ft
- Paved pads
- 9 of 24
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- ACCESSIBLE FLUSH TOILETS on 9 of 37 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER (PEAK SEASON) on 9 of 37 campsite records
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach, Coast
- Biking
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 410th darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 3
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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $30–$32 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
37 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 24 mapped sitesAll 37 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 24 of the 37 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| AREA REEDER BAY | XXX | unnamed record | 99 ft | $30 | ||
| AREA REEDER BAY | XXX1 | unnamed record | $30 | |||
| AREA REEDER BAY | XXX11 | unnamed record | $30 | |||
| AREA REEDER BAY | XXX13 | unnamed record | 687 ft | $30 | ||
| AREA REEDER BAY | XXX2 | unnamed record | 350 ftReeder Creek | $30 | ||
| AREA REEDER BAY | XXX22 | unnamed record | 299 ft | $30 | ||
| AREA REEDER BAY | XXX23 | unnamed record | 334 ft | $30 | ||
| AREA REEDER BAY | XXX24 | unnamed record | 297 ft | $30 | ||
| AREA REEDER BAY | XXX4 | unnamed record | 312 ftReeder Creek | $30 | ||
| AREA REEDER BAY | XXX5 | unnamed record | 591 ftReeder Creek | $30 | ||
| AREA REEDER BAY | XXX6 | unnamed record | 714 ftReeder Creek | $30 | ||
| AREA REEDER BAY | XXX7 | unnamed record | 763 ftReeder Creek | $30 | ||
| AREA REEDER BAY | XXX9 | unnamed record | 427 ftReeder Creek | $30 | ||
| REED | 001 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 79 ft | 430 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 002 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 79 ft | 459 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 003 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 83 ft | 557 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 004 | standard nonelectric | 19 ft | 83 ft | 612 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 005 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 102 ft | 695 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 006 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 70 ft | 635 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 70 ft | 570 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 008 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 78 ft | 522 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 009 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 74 ft | 469 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 010 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 65 ft | 437 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 011 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 65 ft | 397 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 70 ft | 423 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 013 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 74 ft | 324 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 014 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 70 ft | 283 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 015 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 70 ft | 285 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 016 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 125 ft | 203 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 017 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 125 ft | 171 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 018 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 125 ft | 190 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 019 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 72 ft | 187 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 020 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 72 ft | 203 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 021 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 84 ft | 209 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 022 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 81 ft | 196 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 023 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 46 ft | 185 ft | $30–$32 |
| REED | 024 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 46 ft | 139 ft | $30–$32 |
The agency files 13 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
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.
25 of 37 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Kalispell Island Boat-In Campground4.2 mi
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Luby BayKaniksu National Forest · 6.1 mi
Beaver Creek (Idaho)Tepee Creek Natural Area · 7.6 miFrom I-90 at Post Falls, turn north onto Highway 41 to Newport. Turn right on Highway 2/200 east to Priest River. Turn north (left) on Highway 57 to Nordman 37 miles, then turn right at Y junction and drive 3 miles to Reeder Bay.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Coolin, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 32°F, day 54°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 22°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
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
Reeder Bay 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 →