U.S. Forest Service · Targhee National Forest · ID
Riverside Park Campground
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
Photos · U.S. Forest Service
5,400 ftElevation
498 ftWater · Snake River
13.7 miNW of Alpine, WY
0%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 404th darkest of 523 in ID
Open May 1 through September 30Today
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Riverside Park Campground is located 49 miles south of Idaho Falls, Idaho near Palisades Reservoir, along the banks of the South Fork of the Snake River. Cottonwoods provide partial shade. The South Fork of the Snake River has great fly-fishing for rainbow and brook trout; tubing, canoeing, kayaking, and rafting are also popular on the river. Wildlife can be frequently spotted throughout the area. This campground provides vault toilets, potable water, and garbage service and electricity at select sites. Roads and parking spurs within the campground are gravel. A campground host is on site. Keep reading
Firewood is available for purchase. Phone, gas, and groceries are three miles away. Hundreds of miles of hiking, biking, horse, and ATV trails crisscross the area. Palisades Reservoir is nearby, with boat ramps, boating, waterskiing, and fishing. It has 22 single units and 10 double units. It has an RV dump station on the premises. First Come/First Served; Dry Camping (No Host, Bathrooms Locked); No Fee after Fall Closure
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…the area. This campground provides vault toilets, potable water, and garbage service and electricity…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…This campground provides vault toilets, potable water, and garbage service and electricity at select…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
Source: Stated in the agency description
Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, River
- Fall color · reported 14 days ago, 31 km away
- Peak color
Source: Stated in the agency description
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (31 km) · Oct 3, 2026
Phone before you drive
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.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
For current fees, please go to Recreation.gov
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Tonight35°Mostly Clear
Saturday62°Sunny
Saturday Night35°Mostly Clear
Sunday60°Sunny
NWS forecast for Irwin, ID
Source: National Weather Service, PIH forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical May night 35°F, day 66°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 35°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
90°32°0°
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.
Measured at: SWAN VALLEY, ID (USC00108937), 8 miles away and at about the same elevation
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
Roadless
Roadless
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Sep 30, 2026
Who answers for this land
Riverside Park 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: The agency lists it out of season. The season it publishes is the bar below.
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (31 km) · Oct 3, 2026
Reported by: iNaturalist fall color observations, reported peak color · Oct 3, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Irwin, ID, 1.7 mi SE. Straight line.