Shafer Butte
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 7All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Shafer Butte is located atop the scenic Boise Ridge Mountains, near Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area, at an elevation of 7,000 feet. Visitors enjoy hiking and biking on various trails in the surrounding area, and simply relaxing and taking in the area's beautiful views. Keep reading
Recreation
Popular activities in the area include hiking and mountain biking, the Mores Mountain Trail begins in the campground. This 2-mile interpretive nature trail is family friendly.
Facilities
Shafer Butte contains single-family tent campsites and two day-use, group picnic areas, all of which are accessible. Sites are equipped with picnic tables and campfire rings, and many of the overnight campsites have tent pads. The overnight sites are walk-in and are clustered close together, with limited vegetation screening for privacy. Accessible vault restrooms are provided, but there is no electricity. Parking spurs and pathways within the campground are paved, and each site can be accessed via a short walking path from the parking area.
Natural Features
Shafer Butte offers scenic views of Deer Point, Mores Mountain and Shafer Butte summits, as well as the expansive valley below. The campground is situated among Douglas fir and aspen trees, which offer partial shade in most sites. Wildlife and summer wildflowers are abundant in the area.
Nearby Attractions
Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area is close by and offers more hiking and biking trails, as well as other summer activities, check out this link for more information http://bogusbasin.org. The Ridge to River trail system is near by as well, check out this link for more information http://www.ridgetorivers.org
What the agency tells you
Idaho OHV Safety Message
Additional day-use picnic sites and campsites are not listed for reservation and are available on a first-come, first-served basis
Click here for more information on the Boise National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 2
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.
Water system is shut down - no estimated timeline for completion of repair. No potable water available at the campground.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 7 · 7 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- 7
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…screening for privacy. Accessible vault restrooms are provided, but there is no electricity. Parking…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Biking
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
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, $20 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
9 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 7 mapped sitesAll 9 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 9 of the 9 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. 7 of the 9 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| RCLW | 008 | walk to | yes | 68 ft | 1,498 ft | 140 ft | $20 |
| RCLW | 009 | walk to | yes | 71 ft | 1,421 ft | 94 ft | $20 |
| RCLW | 010 | walk to | yes | 52 ft | 1,505 ft | 204 ft | $20 |
| RCLW | 011 | walk to | yes | 69 ft | 1,398 ft | 163 ft | $20 |
| RCLW | 012 | walk to | yes | 49 ft | 1,455 ft | 202 ft | $20 |
| RCLW | 013 | walk to | yes | 43 ft | 1,398 ft | 209 ft | $20 |
| RCLW | 014 | walk to | yes | 43 ft | 1,441 ft | 248 ft | $20 |
| RCWE | GSW | day use | yes | 1,250 ft | 117 ft | $50–$75 | |
| SHAF | GSE | day use | yes | 1,280 ft | 58 ft | $50–$75 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
GraybackBoise National Forest · 11 miGrayback Campground and Group sites - reserveBoise National Forest · 11 mi
Macks Creek Campground14 miCottonwood CampgroundBoise National Forest · 16 miBald Mountain CampgroundBoise National Forest · 18 miWillow Creek Campground (Mountain Home)Boise National Forest · 19 miFrom Boise, Idaho, travel along Bogus Basin Road for approximately 20 miles. The last three miles are on a gravel road. Turn right (east) on the signed gravel road and travel just over a mile to the campground and picnic area.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Robie Creek, ID
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
Shafer Butte 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 →