Riverside (ID - Targhee)
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $25–$50Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 35All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Riverside Campground is on the banks of the Henry's Fork of the Snake River, just 15 miles north of Ashton, Idaho. Beautiful Island Park is nearby, where visitors enjoy boating, fishing and exploring local trails. Please click here for further information about the facility and recreation opportunities in the area. Keep reading
Recreation
Henry's Fork has great fly-fishing for rainbow and brook trout. Tubing, canoeing, kayaking and rafting are also popular activities on the river.
Facilities
The campground offers one group site that can accommodate up to 40 people. Several single family sites are also available, each equipped with a picnic table, campfire ring and grill. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided but there is no electricity. Firewood is available for purchase from the host. Gas and groceries are 8 miles away.
Natural Features
The campground is situated along the Henry's Fork at an elevation of 6,200 feet. Lodgepole pines provide partial shade and aspens dot the landscape. Summer wildflowers are abundant. A variety of wildlife, including moose and deer, is frequently spotted throughout the area.
Nearby Attractions
Island Park has outdoor activities for visitors of all ages. Hundreds of miles of hiking, biking, horseback riding and ATV trails crisscross the area. Island Park Reservoir and Henry's Lake are nearby, with boat ramps, fish cleaning stations, boating, water skiing and fishing. Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks are close enough for a day trip. Both parks offer hiking and fishing in breathtaking natural settings.
What the agency tells you
Wildlife Caution
Idaho OHV Safety Message
A $7 fee for each extra vehicle will be collected at the campground
Everything else this campground posts · 5
No ATVs/OHVs allowed in the campground
Please bring reservation confirmation to the campground
Walk-in sites may be available
Click here for more information on the Caribou-Targhee National Forest
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 35 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- 21
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…a picnic table, campfire ring and grill. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…campfire ring and grill. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided but there is no…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River
- Fishing
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 286th 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 · 15
What you actually pay
“A $7 fee for each extra vehicle will be collected at the campground” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $25–$50 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
58 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 35 mapped sitesAll 58 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 35 of the 58 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. 35 of the 58 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.
| B | B002 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 64 ft | 323 ft | 63 ft | $25–$50 |
| B | B003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 125 ft | 376 ft | 131 ft | $25–$50 |
| B | B004 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 64 ft | 385 ft | 112 ft | $25–$50 |
| B | B005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 140 ft | 505 ft | 231 ft | $25–$50 |
| B | B006 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 145 ft | 502 ft | 249 ft | $25–$50 |
| B | B007 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 123 ft | 649 ft | 317 ft | $25–$50 |
| B | B008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 99 ft | 585 ft | 222 ft | $25–$50 |
| B | B009 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 101 ft | 685 ft | 197 ft | $25–$50 |
| B | B010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 99 ft | 546 ft | 188 ft | $25–$50 |
| B | B011 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 141 ft | 575 ft | 103 ft | $25–$50 |
| B | B012 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 99 ft | 452 ft | 245 ft | $25–$50 |
| B | B013 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 125 ft | 438 ft | 243 ft | $25–$50 |
| B | B014 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 103 ft | 354 ft | 327 ft | $25–$50 |
| B | B015 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 125 ft | 316 ft | 341 ft | $25–$50 |
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX | unnamed record | 40 ft | yes | $35 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX1 | unnamed record | $35 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX10 | unnamed record | $35 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX11 | unnamed record | $35 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX12 | unnamed record | $35 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX13 | unnamed record | $35 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX14 | unnamed record | $35 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX15 | unnamed record | $35 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX16 | unnamed record | $35 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX17 | unnamed record | $35 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX18 | unnamed record | $35 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX19 | unnamed record | $35 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX2 | unnamed record | $35 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX20 | unnamed record | $35 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX21 | unnamed record | $35 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX22 | unnamed record | $35 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX3 | unnamed record | $35 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX4 | unnamed record | $35 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX5 | unnamed record | $35 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX6 | unnamed record | $35 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX7 | unnamed record | $35 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX8 | unnamed record | $35 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX9 | unnamed record | $35 | |||||
| RIVE | A001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 137 ft | 218 ft | 134 ft | $25–$50 |
| RIVE | A002 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 110 ft | 107 ft | 274 ft | $25–$50 |
| RIVE | A003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 110 ft | 215 ft | 289 ft | $25–$50 |
| RIVE | A004 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 117 ft | 259 ft | 379 ft | $25–$50 |
| RIVE | A005 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 104 ft | 152 ft | 476 ft | $25–$50 |
| RIVE | A007 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 104 ft | 171 ft | 377 ft | $25–$50 | |
| RIVE | A008 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 119 ft | 139 ft | 308 ft | $25–$50 | |
| RIVE | A009 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 82 ft | 211 ft | 129 ft | $25–$50 | |
| RIVE | A010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 45 ft | 233 ft | 101 ft | $25–$50 |
| RIVE | A011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 106 ft | 337 ft | 12 ft | $25–$50 | |
| RIVE | A012 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 45 ft | 237 ft | 118 ft | $25–$50 | |
| RIVE | A013 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 122 ft | 204 ft | 234 ft | $25–$50 | |
| RIVE | A014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 122 ft | 326 ft | 167 ft | $25–$50 |
| RIVE | A015 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 135 ft | 272 ft | 225 ft | $25–$50 | |
| RIVE | A016 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 121 ft | 103 ft | 179 ft | $25–$50 | |
| RIVE | A017 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 121 ft | 211 ft | 94 ft | $25–$50 | |
| RIVE | A018 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 143 ft | 138 ft | 97 ft | $25–$50 | |
| RIVE | A019 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 157 ft | 230 ft | 246 ft | $25–$50 | |
| RIVE | A020 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 157 ft | 90 ft | 357 ft | $25–$50 | |
| RIVE | A021 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 163 ft | 72 ft | 519 ft | $25–$50 | |
| RIVE | GS1 | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 135 ft | 139 ft | 353 ft | $75 |
The agency files 23 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.
25 of 58 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Riverside CampgroundTarghee National Forest · 0.0 mi
Bishop Mountain CabinTarghee National Forest · 6.6 miPole BridgeTarghee National Forest · 8.4 mi
Box Canyon CampgroundTarghee National Forest · 9.1 mi
Grandview Campground (Idaho)Targhee National Forest · 9.5 mi
Warm River CabinTarghee National Forest · 11 miFrom Ashton, Idaho, travel north on Highway 20 for 15 miles, take Riverside Campground turnoff, travel 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 Island Park, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 32°F, day 57°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 13°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
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Riverside (ID - Targhee) 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 →