U.S. Forest Service · Nezperce National Forest · ID

Sing Lee Campground

3Heads up3 fires, nearest 25 mi
Wildfire
Cedar Knob fire · 25 mi away · 0 acres · updated Oct 14, 2026
Wildfire
Wolf Creek fire · 27 mi away · 2,643 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 9, 2026
Wildfire
Cascade fire · 28 mi away · 7,475 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 9, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.

This is how it should work.

Right now
OpenThe agency lists it open
A night
FreeNo camping fee
Season
Year-roundOpen year-round
Drawn from the record · 4,090 ft · 86% tree cover · Newsome Creek within reach · Bortle 2 sky
4,090 ftElevation
821 ftWater · Newsome Creek
23.5 miE of Grangeville, ID
86%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 108th darkest of 523 in ID
Open year-roundToday

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Sing Lee Campground rests near tall timber providing for open shade in the afternoon. A small creek flows through the site, while Newsome Creek is just across the road. The campground provides four camp pads, with two metal fire rings and two tables.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Creek
Source: Stated in the agency description

Nothing to book, just show up

One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and it costs nothing at all. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.

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.

BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
A nightFreeNo camping feethe agency’s fee record
A weekendNothingDerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
Camping feeFree
No Fee.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
A night, and a whole weekendDerivedNothing

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s own record says there’s no camping fee, and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.

How we know this receipt · 5
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight42°Partly Cloudy
Saturday66°Mostly Sunny
Saturday Night38°Partly Cloudy1% rain
Sunday60°Mostly Sunny

NWS forecast for Elk City, ID

Typical weather

Typical October night 28°F, day 58°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical December night 14°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°10°

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.

Measured at: ELK CITY 1NE, ID (USC00102875), 9 miles away and 32 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
Silver Creek - Pilot Knob22,332 acres · 6 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Lick Point7,895 acres · 8 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Who answers for this land

Russ Fulcher, official portrait

Sing Lee Campground 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: The agency lists it open right now.
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 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: Elk City, ID, 8.7 mi WNW (a census designated place). Straight line.