Riley Creek
4Heads up4 fires, nearest 33 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $40From, per site
- Sites
- 67All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Riley Creek Recreation Area, situated on the banks of the Pend Oreille River, is the largest recreation area for the Albeni Falls Project, but still offers visitors peace and quiet and plenty of space to enjoy the scenic surroundings. Keep reading
Recreation
Water sports are the most common activity at the lake, and boat ramps are provided at the campground. Visitors enjoy kayaking, canoeing, swimming, fishing, water skiing and jet skiing. Campers are likely to spot wildlife in the area, with bald eagles, osprey, bears and most commonly, deer. A biking and hiking trail is available, giving campers a chance to enjoy the wildlife and greenery. Fishing piers, horseshoe pits, a beach volleyball court, basketball court and more make this campground an ideal place for family trips or groups of friends. A hiking and biking trail is accessible from the campground.
Facilities
Riley Creek is the largest campground at Albeni Falls, offering 67 campsites, all with electric and water hookups. Two large reservable picnic shelters are also available. As long as all equipment fits on the site pad, Riley Creek allows for an unlimited amount of tents per site.
Natural Features
Albeni Falls Dam was built in 1955 for flood control and power production on the Pend Oreille River. Today, the popular lake has the added benefit of providing visitors with countless year-round recreational activities. Lake Pend Oreille is surrounded by scenic mountains and is one of the largest and deepest natural lakes in the western United States, plunging to depths of more than 1,200 ft. in some areas. Behind the dam, the Pend Oreille River stretches 65 miles through a glacial-carved valley that separates three mountain ranges.
Nearby Attractions
The Albeni Falls Visitor Center features exhibits on the history of the dam and the natural features of the area. Tours of the dam are given daily during the summer. The nearby town of Laclede, Idaho offers gas and grocery services.
What the agency tells you
Group shelter reservations: You are responsible for following all regulations posted under the "Need to Know" and "Site Details" sections for each respective shelter. Please read these sections before completing your reservation.
Campsites are by reservation only. There are no First Come, First Served sites.
No unlicensed motorized vehicles allowed, including side-by-sides, ATVs, etc.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
All camping equipment must be located on the campsite impact areas, or if undefined, located 10-15ft from the fire ring and off all vegetation.
Campsites are for camping only. Reserving for day-use activities without intending to camp is prohibited.
Site Limits: (a) 2 Motorized Vehicles (b) 1 Camping unit (RV, motorhome, camper van, etc) (c) 8 people
The Boat Basin is on a First come, First served basis. The Boat Basin is for registered campers only.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 67
- Hookups
- 67 electric, 67 water
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 64 of 65 sites
Facilities
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Ranger programs
- Picnicking
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 514th darkest of 523 in ID
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 4 days ago, 9.7 km away
- No change
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 rate for this season, $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
69 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 69 mapped sitesAll 69 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 69 of the 69 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. 67 of the 69 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.
| Group | Eagle Shelter | day use | 327 ft | 159 ft | 201 ft | |||
| Group | Osprey Shelter | day use | 597 ft | 129 ft | 83 ft | |||
| NIGH | 001 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 429 ft | 1,305 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 002 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 352 ft | 1,361 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 003 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 446 ft | 1,372 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 004 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 376 ft | 1,429 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 005 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 496 ft | 1,409 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 006 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 90 ft | 475 ft | 1,506 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 007 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 386 ft | 1,406 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 008 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 397 ft | 1,509 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 009 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 320 ft | 1,550 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 010 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 77 ft | 329 ft | 1,455 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 011 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 64 ft | 237 ft | 1,540 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 012 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 191 ft | 1,509 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 013 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 144 ft | 1,476 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 014 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 97 ft | 236 ft | 1,424 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 015 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 93 ft | 112 ft | 1,395 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 016 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 103 ft | 227 ft | 1,322 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 017 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 141 ft | 1,298 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 018 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 105 ft | 258 ft | 1,203 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 019 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 154 ft | 1,218 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 020 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 186 ft | 1,136 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 021 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 112 ft | 280 ft | 1,057 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 022 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 400 ft | 1,047 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 023 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 96 ft | 367 ft | 1,138 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 024 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 463 ft | 1,063 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 025 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 459 ft | 1,176 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 026 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 572 ft | 1,225 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 027 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 95 ft | 577 ft | 1,139 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 028 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 67 ft | 505 ft | 1,251 ft | $40 |
| NIGH | 029 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 97 ft | 480 ft | 1,182 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 030 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 395 ft | 843 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 031 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 86 ft | 386 ft | 758 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 032 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 57 ft | 450 ft | 851 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 033 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 483 ft | 796 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 034 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 564 ft | 889 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 035 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 563 ft | 803 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 036 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 574 ft | 902 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 037 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 88 ft | 471 ft | 818 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 038 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 403 ft | 919 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 039 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 384 ft | 830 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 040 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 324 ft | 923 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 041 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 310 ft | 851 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 042 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 252 ft | 935 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 043 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 136 ft | 927 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 044 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 216 ft | 835 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 045 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 119 ft | 886 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 046 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 220 ft | 776 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 047 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 133 ft | 822 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 048 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 159 ft | 727 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 049 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 265 ft | 672 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 050 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 203 ft | 639 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 051 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 214 ft | 564 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 052 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 302 ft | 608 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 053 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 264 ft | 506 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 054 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 366 ft | 597 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 055 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 107 ft | 398 ft | 495 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 056 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 442 ft | 606 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 057 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 502 ft | 557 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 058 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 519 ft | 631 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 059 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 495 ft | 618 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 060 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 520 ft | 686 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 061 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 487 ft | 719 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 062 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 416 ft | 589 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 063 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 87 ft | 400 ft | 673 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 064 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 108 ft | 309 ft | 555 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 065 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 257 ft | 627 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 066 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 334 ft | 673 ft | $40 |
| RAVE | 067 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 260 ft | 687 ft | $40 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 69 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Priest River5.8 mi
Springy Point10 mi
Albeni Cove11 miMaiden Rock CampgroundKaniksu National Forest · 13 mi
Pioneer Park14 miWhiskey Rock Bay CampgroundKaniksu National Forest · 17 miFrom Highway 2 in Laclede, Idaho, turn south onto Riley Creek Road, then continue about 1 mile to the campground entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Laclede, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 34°F, day 56°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 23°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 Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Riley Creek 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 →