Shoreline
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20–$40Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 33All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Shoreline Campground is located just across the road from beautiful Warm Lake, at an elevation of 5,300 feet. Visitors enjoy boating, fishing, swimming, hiking and viewing local wildlife. Keep reading
Recreation
Warm Lake offers great fishing opportunities for cutthroat, rainbow, lake and bull trout. Boating, canoeing and swimming are popular activities. Billy Rice Swim Beach is nearby, offering a day-use site for picnicking and swimming. A boat ramp is located just across the road from the campground. The surrounding area offers great hiking, mountain biking, horseback and off-road vehicle riding, and hunting. The WeWuKiye (Wa Wu Kia) Trail No. 252 is popular among hikers and mountain bikers. It was recently built and can be accessed at the campground's entrance. For off-road vehicle enthusiasts, Telephone Ridge Trail No. 112 offers 20 miles of trails for all riding levels, with staging areas within the campground and at Warm Lake Campground just down the road.
Facilities
The campground contains several single and double campsites, most of which are accessible. An accessible group site with picnic shelter is also available and can accommodate up to 50 people. A volleyball court and horseshoe pits are located next to the group site. Picnic tables, campfire rings and grills are available at the campsites. Vault toilets and drinking water are also provided. There is no electricity at the campground.
Natural Features
The campground is situated in a mixed-growth lodgepole pine forest, which offers partial shade. Summer wildflowers are abundant in the area. A variety of wildlife including bears, deer, elk, fox, grouse, eagles, osprey, grosbeaks, whooping cranes and otters, lives around the lake.
What the agency tells you
Idaho OHV Safety Message
Bears frequent the area; please keep a clean camp and be bear aware
Click here for more information on the Boise National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Please click here for further information about the facility and recreation opportunities in the area.
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
- 33 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 99 ft
- Paved pads
- 31 of 33
- Accessible sites
- 30
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…grills are available at the campsites. Vault toilets and drinking water are also provided. There is no…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…at the campsites. Vault toilets and drinking water are also provided. There is no electricity at the…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 173rd 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 · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$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
33 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 33 mapped sitesAll 33 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 33 of the 33 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. 33 of the 33 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| GRP | 1 | group standard nonelectric | 99 ft | yes | 372 ft | 810 ftWarm Lake Creek | 2,962 ft | $50 |
| SHOR | 001 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 193 ft | 774 ft | 2,604 ft | $20–$40 | |
| SHOR | 002 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 101 ft | 786 ftWarm Lake Creek | 2,452 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 003 | standard nonelectric | yes | 101 ft | 788 ft | 2,352 ft | $20–$40 | |
| SHOR | 004 - Double Site | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | yes | 56 ft | 680 ft | 2,224 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 005 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 56 ft | 663 ft | 2,247 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 006 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 141 ft | 523 ft | 2,138 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 007 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 87 ft | 330 ft | 1,970 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 008 | standard nonelectric | yes | 87 ft | 377 ft | 1,928 ft | $20–$40 | |
| SHOR | 009 | standard nonelectric | yes | 50 ft | 295 ft | 1,715 ft | $20–$40 | |
| SHOR | 010 | standard nonelectric | yes | 82 ft | 274 ft | 1,628 ft | $20–$40 | |
| SHOR | 011 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | yes | 50 ft | 344 ft | 1,732 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 012 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | yes | 80 ft | 352 ft | 1,667 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 013 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | yes | 193 ft | 326 ft | 1,494 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 014 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | yes | 126 ft | 568 ft | 1,787 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 015 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | yes | 126 ft | 553 ft | 1,874 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 016 - Double Site | standard nonelectric | 66 ft | 645 ft | 2,044 ft | $20–$40 | ||
| SHOR | 017 - Double Site | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 66 ft | 691 ft | 2,036 ft | $20–$40 | |
| SHOR | 018 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | yes | 72 ft | 761 ftWarm Lake Creek | 2,179 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 019 - Double Site | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | yes | 72 ft | 703 ftWarm Lake Creek | 2,171 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 020 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 127 ft | 616 ftWarm Lake Creek | 2,295 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 021 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 129 ft | 500 ftWarm Lake Creek | 2,394 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 022 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | yes | 60 ft | 587 ftWarm Lake Creek | 2,454 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 023 - Double Site | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 60 ft | 540 ftWarm Lake Creek | 2,506 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 024 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 115 ft | 689 ftWarm Lake Creek | 2,532 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 025 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 131 ft | 502 ftWarm Lake Creek | 1,680 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 026 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 122 ft | 535 ftWarm Lake Creek | 1,746 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 027 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | yes | 101 ft | 615 ftWarm Lake Creek | 1,830 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 028 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 74 ft | 561 ftWarm Lake Creek | 1,930 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 029 - Double Site | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | yes | 74 ft | 615 ftWarm Lake Creek | 1,965 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 030 - Double Site | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | yes | 95 ft | 548 ftWarm Lake Creek | 2,046 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 031 - Double Site | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | yes | 63 ft | 572 ftWarm Lake Creek | 2,146 ft | $20–$40 |
| SHOR | 032 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 63 ft | 509 ftWarm Lake Creek | 2,171 ft | $20–$40 |
25 of 33 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Shoreline Campground and Group sitesBoise National Forest · 0.1 mi
Picnic Point (ID)Boise National Forest · 0.4 mi
Warm LakeBoise National Forest · 0.5 miSouth Fork Salmon River CampgroundBoise National Forest · 1.8 miSummit Lake CampgroundBoise National Forest · 4.0 miPenny Springs CampgroundBoise National Forest · 4.2 miFrom Boise, Idaho, travel 85 miles north on Highway 55 to Cascade. Turn east on Warm Lake Highway and go 25 miles to Forest Road 489. Turn south and continue a half-mile to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cascade, ID
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 15°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Shoreline 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 →